[Underground Tannoy] Mars forecast today
Highs of minus fourteen degrees fahrenheit
with lows of minus one hundred and seventeen fahrenheit
Status risk below ground
No risk
Details...
The depth of the underground colony
continues to be stable
[electrical buzzing]
Surface atmospheric pressure:
six hundred pascals
Risk level
fatal
details...
at ten seconds
all bodily fluids reach boiling point
At twenty seconds
skin and organs rupture
excessive pain...
death
Venus Seven?
No thinking
Scale of zero to ten?
[Elevator sound]
Which one?
Four
Thanks
[Elevator] Closing
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[Elevator] Closing
[TV] Mars forecast today
Highs of minus fourteen degrees fahrenheit
with lows of minus one hundred and seventeen fahrenheit
Dust storm probability
Eighty percent
Direction
Thirty five degrees north north west
Surface atmospheric pressure
six hundred pascals
Risk level
fatal
[Elevator sound]
♪
Can I see?
Didn't they have it all...
They look good
They've been very spoiled
[plant fan falls]
What's it for?
Root strengthening
Supposed to replicate earth breezes
(slight laugh)
Ever wondered what...
real rain must feel like?
[Tannoy] Surface terraforming stage
at oxygen production
Details...
Planted oxygen producing micro organisms
Cyanobacteria and algae
continue to multiply
increasing the level of molecular oxygen
Current levels at three percent of final target
♪
[pulsing air pump sound]
[air rushing]
[muffled raised voices] Projected targets we're not even close
I said back then that this would happen
If you starved them of all creativity
The facts speak for themselves James
The very fuel
behind all scientific advancements
and you went
and cut it off
So...
Venus Seven
Let me ask you a question
About the pairings
Is there someone you'd like to be paired with?
Like a preference?
I'm not asking who
I'm just curious...
Pairing choices are made for the common good
We do a disservice to ourselves
and to the future of New Mars
If we are foolish and selfish
and allow animal emotion
to rule our actions
Yeah
Textbook
[Tannony] Pre New Mars
Terrestrial humans conceded to primal impulses
Allowing them to override reason and judgement unfettered
Chemical sequences constituted three main stages
Stage one: Lust
Target mate is identified by the subconcious...
That's a protocol violation
Not if you don't tell
Cell growth requirements for section eight
[Background Tannoy} A potent mix of emotional drugs created by the body to enduce procreation
♪
Stage two: Attraction
The release of the combination of biochemicals
including Dopamine Norepinephrine and Seretonin
Stimulates the brain's pleasure centre
Creating the same effect as the chemical Amphetamine...
Yes Venus Seven?
When will it be safe to go to the surface?
There's been some setbacks
Perhaps a couple more years until it's completely safe
But the pairing ceremony...?
the pairs will be allocated couples quarters
and continue to prepare until then
[ceremonial instrument]
[rhythmic clapping]
Venus Twelve
and Mars Eight
[rhythmic clapping]
Mars three
and Venus...
Venus Two
[rhythmic clapping]
♪
Yep?
Have you checked the labs?
Right
[alarm sounds]
It's just a drill
Come with me
Where?
Out
This is water...
How can that be...?
Come on
Stop!
You'll die if you go up there