Monday, June 7, 2010

Accommodations on Venus

The accommodations on Venus are as unique as the planet itself. Many of the more popular hotels on the planet are built over active volcanoes, the magma of which is used to heat the buildings. As the planet is covered in mist, the views from the windows are not easily seen, even on the clearest of days. So instead of windows, there are thin holographic plates, built into the walls of each room. With this type of technology, each guest can choose the location, size, and shape of each window. Guests can even choose the view seen from each window. Air vents in these hotels do not lead outside, as the atmosphere of Venus is made up of Carbon Dioxide and Nitrogen gas. Many other hotels float in the upper atmosphere, as oxygen on Venus is less dense than the general density of the atmosphere, which results in breathable gases floating. In an effort to accumulate interest, several hotels have incorporated some of the lighter gases into their buildup, resulting in ascension into the mists of the upper atmosphere.
If you're looking for a more exciting trip, however, you can always take what the travel agencies have fondly nicknamed a "slidecation". "Slidecations" are designed for optimum viewing opportunities of the planet. In a large metal pod much like a mobile home, guests slide through a long fiberglass tube, which gives them a glorious view of the Venusian atmosphere and landscape. Coated in specialized chemicals to help the fiberglass weather the cold of outer space and the heat of the volcanic magma, the pods are able to go to almost any location, whether it is the crystallized caves underground or the mountainous volcanoes.

19 comments:

  1. Exactly how much presure would it take to break a slidecation tube?

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  2. I'm not sure. Several hundred tonnes, I guess. Why?

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  3. Thanks, ginger. *mwah* Oh, i'm off to kill some people, some annoying touristy people...

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  4. Aw, man, not again!!! What have they ever done to you?

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  5. Existed. Looked at my Honey. Tried to take up his time. Breathed air that he could have used in case of an emergency.

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  6. It's OK, if anything happens he can just hop in the TARDIS and he and I will be whisked away someplace safe.

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  7. We aren't alowed to bring the TARDIS on our slidecation. We already have one piece of luggage IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN

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  8. Well, EXCUSE me, but it's not MY fault the TARDIS is that size! If he would just try and hotbind in the fragment links and supersede the binary code, the chameleon circuit would be fixed and the TARDIS would blend in anywhere!

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  9. Do you know a woman named Donna, luggage?

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  10. Master, stop calling my assistant names. And no killing. Or else I'll stick you in rehab with our neighbor John Hart. >:C

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  11. OH PLEASE GOD NO

    and she deserved it

    she had her seducing skirt on!

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  12. The only Donna I know is my mother.
    DON'T CALL ME LUGGAGE!
    And Doctor--PLEASE get rid of him so we can live in peace!!! We can't go to Felspoon with HIM, he was exiled by the high council and we can't even enter orbit unless we act in coordance with convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation, and you know how seriously the Felspoonians would talk that!

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  13. Its not a seducing skirt! Its a nice skirt.
    And I'm sorry Sophie, but Master is my husband, and I love you both. ... in different ways.
    We'll just have a more... interesting adventure with him along. :3

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  14. SEE! I USE MARRIGE FOR GOOD NOT EVIL! Wait. Donna. Mother. AW SH- Ohai doctor.

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  15. What?
    Doctor, he's not even making sense!! PLEASE tell him to behave! I know he'll listen to you.

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  16. I AM MAKING MORE SENSE THAN YOU DID...
    AT THE BUFFET!

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  17. YOU SWORE WE WOULD NEVER SPEAK OF THAT AGAIN!!! You were as bad as I was. Don't talk about this--especially in front of the Doctor!!!

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