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Camping has never gone out of style, but it’s had its ups and downs. Once
our ancestors invented computers, they realized how disruptive it was to be
away from their devices. People in the 19th century were basically,
like, “camping is just living without being in a building, and peeing in the
woods”. Over time, the gap between regular urban living and camping in a
tent widened. Then we started developing better portable energy storage, and
more prolific satellite connectivity, and it started going back the other
way in many respects. You could go out to the middle of the woods, and enjoy
nature, while still maintaining a connection to the outside world, to just
about whatever degree you wanted. There were snobs, of course, who said that
you really shouldn’t have anything, and to a certain extent, I agree.
Glamping is what they called it when you basically lived in a tiny home with
no sacrifice of amenities. Really, what’s the point? The leaders on
Castlebourne couldn’t answer that either, so it doesn’t exist here. There
are all kinds of other camping formats, though. Forest, prairie, desert,
even wetlands, and snow camping. What people don’t realize is that each dome
is large enough to be fully capable of supporting a diverse multi-biome
ecology. You just have to tailor the terrain to fit what you need, and maybe
add a bit of scientific intervention. Colder regions are near the top of a
mountain range, as you might expect it on Earth. It doesn’t have seasons,
since the kind of engineering that would require is just a little beyond
what’s practical. It’s not impossible, but it’s more logical to divide
climates up by areas. You choose where you wanna camp, and how you wanna do
it. Some people go out there and totally rough it. They have no supplies, no
food, maybe not even clothes. There’s a subculture of people who go out
there totally naked and alone, and survive on their skills.
As I said, there are no seasons, though these survivalists can replicate
them by moving to different spots. I will say that that’s not quite right,
because if you really wanted to start your journey in Spring, and see how
you fared when the weather changed, you would build your shelter as well as
you possibly can, and wait for it to become necessary. That’s not a feasible
option when your campsite has to shift in order to account for that journey.
So maybe they can improve upon that. I know it’s not easy, and maybe they
shouldn’t try. After all, that’s why the flying spaghetti monster made
Earth, because it already has everything you need, and the cycles kind of
take care of themselves. I’ve not mentioned it yet, but there are hiking and
backpacking routes, if you like to stay on the move. Some of them are pretty
long, but nothing that compares to the grueling trek of the Pacific Crest or
Appalachian Trails. There’s just not enough space. There might be a dome out
there that winds you around enough times to cover that distance, but it’s
not here. This is mostly about the camping and again, some things probably
should be left to the homeworld. We didn’t spend decades rewilding
the surface exclusively to leave it to nature. We still allow
ourselves access to that nature, and are encouraged to camp when we
feel like it. So, is this place better at what it does? No, I shouldn’t
think so. You’re still in a snowglobe. You will always know it’s artificial.
And it’s nothing we don’t have elsewhere, unlike say, the waterpark in
Flumendome, or the realm in Mythodome, but it’s still pretty nice. I
certainly wouldn’t cast your consciousness here with the express intention
of coming to this dome, but it’s a great option if you’re already here, and
need to take a break from civilization.
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