{"id":2775,"date":"2019-05-25T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/?p=2775"},"modified":"2019-05-24T22:02:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T10:02:58","slug":"episode-one-hundred-and-twenty-four-everything-is-alive-on-this-starship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/2019\/05\/episode-one-hundred-and-twenty-four-everything-is-alive-on-this-starship\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode One Hundred And Twenty Four &#8211; Everything Is Alive On This Starship"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3718\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2775-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-124-EverythingIsAlive.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-124-EverythingIsAlive.mp3\">https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-124-EverythingIsAlive.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-124-EverythingIsAlive.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/?powerpress_pinw=2775-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-124-EverythingIsAlive.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"BRC-124-EverythingIsAlive.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"614\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/124-EverythingIsAliveOnThisStarship.jpg\" alt=\"Everything Is Alive On This Starship\" class=\"wp-image-2777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/124-EverythingIsAliveOnThisStarship.jpg 614w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/124-EverythingIsAliveOnThisStarship-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/124-EverythingIsAliveOnThisStarship-588x330.jpg 588w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Programmable biological workers make it so much easier to set up a colony world, because you can reconfigure them as your colony develops.<br>\nOf course, if something goes wrong on the way there, the ship&#8217;s systems might find themselves trying to repair a starship with a worker build who think the telegraph is a pretty neat idea, \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the colony ship fell out of orbit, it set the bio-workers to &#8220;Mental Evolution&#8221; mode, in the hope that this would compensate for the lack of central guidance. Years later, the remains of the ship are found, and the walls start taking to them \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using bio-workers to raise the first generation of humans from the gene-banks is a fine solution to the problem of long spaceflights, but there will come a moment when the kids find out that their guardians really ARE robots \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Calling it an organic starship is over-simplifying things; It&#8217;s more of a space going coral reef, an ecosystem with a community on board, some of whom may be an integral part of the internal process.<br>\nHow does the community react when the &#8216;ship&#8217; suddenly changes course?<br>\nOr when the ship scoops up an entirely non-organic spacecraft, determines that it&#8217;s not edible, and dumps it out into the habitable areas?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If someone&#8217;s built a tomb which doesn&#8217;t rely on clever traps, and instead just flat-out tries to kill you, is it maybe worth considering that they had a really good reason to do so?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/?p=2772\">Episode One Hundred And Twenty Three &#8211; Tomb Temperature<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proxima_Centauri\">Proxima Centauri<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/owlcation.com\/humanities\/50-Nautical-Terms-And-Sailing-Phrases-That-Have-Enriched-Our-Language\">50 Nautical Terms and Sailing Phrases That Have Enriched Our Language<\/a> (Owlcation)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz\">A Canticle For Liebowitz<\/a> (Walter M. 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