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Babylon 5: Waste dump
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I am wondering how B5 dumps it's waste I mean ppl have to go to toilet so where does that all go?
(I will get around to making a new account for posting such questions but until then [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/tongue.gif[/img])
(I will get around to making a new account for posting such questions but until then [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/tongue.gif[/img])
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As for how Babylon 5 deals with garbage...
According to JMS, the lower decks of Downbelow contain waste recycling and water purification facilities.
[quote]Unfortunately the station doesn't have the budget for that, and it's
easier to deal with what you have than pour more money into it in the hopes of
revenue down the road. Kinda like Congress. Also, the areas of downbelow are
mainly crummy, near the waste recycling system, the air compressors, the water
reclamation facility...not exactly choice real estate.
jms[/quote]
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Note on name: SamualK - I think he want's an account for his website to post official news/information and one for himself to just normally post as. I see no problem with that - if I was running a website and wanted an official poster for announcements, I would do the same thing. It's not the same as having 2 accounts just becuase he can.
2. ALOT of the waste especialy organic waste and water waste is probably reprocessed, and recycled.. shipping stuff to the station CANT be cheap, infact I wouldnt doubt if its used as fertilizer for the massive gardens and such. anyways, stuff that cant be recycled is probably bundled up in a simple shell and then shot towards the star where it is disposed of harmlessly
[This message has been edited by Tyvar (edited 01-22-2003).]
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[b] 1. I think its upto the admins but it makes sense for him to have two accounts, since the Babylon5Online account is what he uses for updates and such on mod/game development status.
2. ALOT of the waste especialy organic waste and water waste is probably reprocessed, and recycled.. shipping stuff to the station CANT be cheap, infact I wouldnt doubt if its used as fertilizer for the massive gardens and such. anyways, stuff that cant be recycled is probably bundled up in a simple shell and then shot towards the star where it is disposed of harmlessly
[This message has been edited by Tyvar (edited 01-22-2003).][/b][/quote]
There's really no reason to have two accounts. No one else here needs 2. Randy, Marc, Rick, etc....they all had one single account.
There's no reason why someone has to have one account for official news and one for unofficial news.
As for the waste:
I don't see why waste couldn't be used as fertilizer. It'd effectively re-use much of what would normally be wasted. keeps the materials on B5, and in doing so, lowers operating costs.
As for the account: You only need one. There is no reason why you can't post normal posts and announcements under the same name. If people can't figure out from the topic or your message body that it's announcement, there's something wrong with them. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
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I still think there probably were some materials, probably chemicals and maybe radioactives that had to be disposed of. What kind of manufacturing base did Babylon 5 posses? anyways, to recycle certain products takes alot of equipment.. like scrap metals requires a smelter to process, so exactly WHAT could they process and not process?
Paper, in as much as it is used wouldn't be hard.
Human waste as fertilizer (possible for the big park in the center of the station) easy enough, just radiation sterilize it and spread it out.
The tricky stuff would be the complex organic materials (organic as in carbon based, not as in living). Plastics, Hydrocarbons (grease, oil, [not gasoline, since based on Garabaldi's motorcycle ep, it isn't used on the station]). Some types of plastics are produced in irreverable processes; which prevents remolding and combining produced plastic to make new plastic. Other examples would be composites; carbon fiber panels. Other items sealed / made with glue or epoxys.
Industrial chemicals would also be an issue. Seperating or purifying them for reuse could be hard or impossible depending on what they were used for.
And then the all around scourge of recycling, complex objects. Electronics, Appliances... These are manpower intensive to dissasemble into component parts for recycling.
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Also, it is in the futre, they may have new materials usefull for space use (ie, easy to recycle).
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[url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Never eat anything bigger than your own head.[/url]
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
[b]I would say that B5 would not have a huge industrial base. It isn't a factory station. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img] At the most they'd have fabrication plants for replacement parts for the station. However, there would be a lot of industrial chemicals and similar that would be used for station systems.
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That was exactly my point Biggles, which means it doesnt have the facilities to recycle all its waste products.. so some of it gets chucked somewhere.. INTO THE STAR! w00t! best trash disposal system around! [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img]
[b]I would say that B5 would not have a huge industrial base. It isn't a factory station. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img] At the most they'd have fabrication plants for replacement parts for the station. However, there would be a lot of industrial chemicals and similar that would be used for station systems.
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You're assuming way too much. The station runs on a fusion reactor. That would suggest that a lot of industrial processes we have today might be obsolete by then.
I think the bottom line is that JMS never really outlined that part of the B5 universe very well, and so the answer doesn't exist beyond a general one.
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[b]to prove my dorkiness. the turds would not lets say be mallable. they would be frozen stuff, and be hitting the starfurys cockpit like stones.[/b][/quote]
And smashing quite spectacularly too. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
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[url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Never eat anything bigger than your own head.[/url]
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
"I need every turd you can muster mister! Gimme everything you got!" - Sheridan
*wierd looks from everyone else*
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