JakeTurk1971
JakeTurk1971 t1_j8tew8s wrote
Reply to comment by CockroachNo2540 in Once manufacturing moves almost entirely into space and the workers want drugs, gambling and prostitution and wanted criminals on Earth can escape to space, the solar system away from gravity wells will become largely lawless. Who will do the policing and how? by [deleted]
The aesthetic of that movie and the other great "working class stiffs in space" movie, the original Alien, largely defined my childhood "what I want to do when I grow up" fantasy (Alien minus the title character, or Outland minus the drugs). "Alien if the Nostromo had never stopped at LV 426" wouldn't make for a very exciting movie, but it would've been my childhood fantasy of being an adult. The literally fatal flaw to Outland is that it's set on Io, which is inside Jupiter's radiation belt, so unless every individual miner was in a suit with more lead than a bank vault, mining on Io would be like mining the inside of a microwave oven running 24/7. If Outland ever gets a remake, an asteroid would be a better setting, or at least Callisto (the only one of Jupiter's four big moons safely outside of the radiation zone). And no, this doesn't negate the much-discussed possibility of life on J's other two big moons, Ganymede and Europa, because the hypothesis there is life in deep underground oceans safely insulated by miles and miles of surface ice. TL/DR I want to be a space trucker.
JakeTurk1971 t1_j8lwzhi wrote
Reply to Once manufacturing moves almost entirely into space and the workers want drugs, gambling and prostitution and wanted criminals on Earth can escape to space, the solar system away from gravity wells will become largely lawless. Who will do the policing and how? by [deleted]
Sean Connery, since you just described Outland? No, not Outlander, y'wee pups.
JakeTurk1971 t1_j8th060 wrote
Reply to comment by CockroachNo2540 in Once manufacturing moves almost entirely into space and the workers want drugs, gambling and prostitution and wanted criminals on Earth can escape to space, the solar system away from gravity wells will become largely lawless. Who will do the policing and how? by [deleted]
Never heard of it but i'm intrigued. I'm not a gamer, so is it available on PC?