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You have succeeded in describing my idea of a climatic hell This has exactly everything I hate : always cool, insanely gloomy, not even cold enough for snow. Horrible !
Exactement! Even at Vostok I could peer out of a building at some sunshine....
You would really prefer being in Vostok over "Depression City"? At least in DC you could safely go outside and get some fresh air!
Well the thing is you don't necessarily have to be outside to enjoy sunshine. In addition, in Antarctica, outdoors can be both forbidding and inviting at the same time. Sunshine is always great to have but it is especially nice when you are surrounded by ice, with light bouncing off it. Combined with crisp dry air, it creates very stark contrasts and beautiful landscape.
Sure, it may look pretty, but I would rather appreciate the earth outdoors than inside through a window. I imagine the landscape would be very green and vibrant in Depression City with all the rain.
Sure, it may look pretty, but I would rather appreciate the earth outdoors than inside through a window. I imagine the landscape would be very green and vibrant in Depression City with all the rain.
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When I was a kid, a teacher once showed us some kind of science fiction movie (I forgot both the name of the movie and why it was shown to us). But I do still remember the setting. There was a very odd climate, where it rained almost every single day. People stayed indoors almost their entire lives and used tanning beds in place of sunshine. I think they didn't even know what real sunshine was. Kamino, the rain planet from Attack of the Clones, is probably similar and more well known.
Anyway, this place reminds me of that movie.
Don't remember the name of it, but it sounds very much like a Ray Bradbury short I read in high school and also saw the movie of in class. The setting was the planet Venus, and many years would pass between sun breaks, which would last all of a few minutes before the rain came back. In the story there was an Earth girl who had moved there and missed the sun, and as a mean joke the other kids locked her in a closet and forgot all about her. The sun came out, they went out and played, and only when the rain came back did they remember about the Earth girl they had locked in the closet, who missed the sun.
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This has exactly everything I hate : always cool, insanely gloomy, not even cold enough for snow. Horrible !
