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In the future, rich people live in gated communities with armed guards. They are so concerned that anything bad will happen to their children that they literally wrap them up in cotton wool.
As generations go by, this spreads to adults as well. Eventually no-one ever leaves the community (which grows ever larger) and everybody is wrapped up in cotton wool. All surfaces are rubberised or covered in padding so that no-one can ever get physically hurt in any way. They do of course have servants who do all the difficult tasks but how do they perform practical things like personal hygiene?
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What are the major challenges these people will face in everyday life. In particular personal hygiene?
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In the future, rich people live in gated communities with armed guards. They are so concerned that anything bad will happen to their children that they literally wrap them up in cotton wool.
As generations go by, this spreads to adults as well. Eventually no-one ever leaves the community (which grows ever larger) and everybody is wrapped up in cotton wool. All surfaces are rubberised or covered in padding so that no-one can ever get physically hurt in any way. They do of course have servants who do all the difficult tasks but how do they perform practical things like personal hygiene?
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What are the major challenges these people will face in everyday life. In particular personal hygiene?
society humans protection
asked Jan 14 at 18:22
chasly from UKchasly from UK
16.5k774147
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closed as too broad by Renan, Cyn, Mołot, Gryphon, adaliabooks Jan 14 at 22:13
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So, these people are essentially living in Padded cells?
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– Alexander
Jan 14 at 18:25
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@Alexander - Well yes. Children are not allowed out of the house. Adults can venture out into the wider areas (all paved with rubber) but they are so scared that they keep their suits on. Anyone who is seen without their cotton wool is declared a danger to the community and banished.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 18:28
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I’m not sure what I expected to see when I opened this question, but that image was not it. shudders
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– Dubukay
Jan 14 at 18:35
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From the looks of things, eating could be a real challenge.
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– Gary Walker
Jan 14 at 18:56
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Many foods are choking hazard. I presume the most popular food will be cotton candy.
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– Alexander
Jan 14 at 19:09
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In the future, rich people live in gated communities with armed guards. They are so concerned that anything bad will happen to their children that they literally wrap them up in cotton wool.
As generations go by, this spreads to adults as well. Eventually no-one ever leaves the community (which grows ever larger) and everybody is wrapped up in cotton wool. All surfaces are rubberised or covered in padding so that no-one can ever get physically hurt in any way. They do of course have servants who do all the difficult tasks but how do they perform practical things like personal hygiene?
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What are the major challenges these people will face in everyday life. In particular personal hygiene?
society humans protection
asked Jan 14 at 18:22
chasly from UKchasly from UK
16.5k774147
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In the future, rich people live in gated communities with armed guards. They are so concerned that anything bad will happen to their children that they literally wrap them up in cotton wool.
As generations go by, this spreads to adults as well. Eventually no-one ever leaves the community (which grows ever larger) and everybody is wrapped up in cotton wool. All surfaces are rubberised or covered in padding so that no-one can ever get physically hurt in any way. They do of course have servants who do all the difficult tasks but how do they perform practical things like personal hygiene?
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What are the major challenges these people will face in everyday life. In particular personal hygiene?
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asked Jan 14 at 18:22
chasly from UKchasly from UK
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asked Jan 14 at 18:22
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So, these people are essentially living in Padded cells?
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– Alexander
Jan 14 at 18:25
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@Alexander - Well yes. Children are not allowed out of the house. Adults can venture out into the wider areas (all paved with rubber) but they are so scared that they keep their suits on. Anyone who is seen without their cotton wool is declared a danger to the community and banished.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 18:28
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I’m not sure what I expected to see when I opened this question, but that image was not it. shudders
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– Dubukay
Jan 14 at 18:35
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From the looks of things, eating could be a real challenge.
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– Gary Walker
Jan 14 at 18:56
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Many foods are choking hazard. I presume the most popular food will be cotton candy.
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– Alexander
Jan 14 at 19:09
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So, these people are essentially living in Padded cells?
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– Alexander
Jan 14 at 18:25
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@Alexander - Well yes. Children are not allowed out of the house. Adults can venture out into the wider areas (all paved with rubber) but they are so scared that they keep their suits on. Anyone who is seen without their cotton wool is declared a danger to the community and banished.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 18:28
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I’m not sure what I expected to see when I opened this question, but that image was not it. shudders
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– Dubukay
Jan 14 at 18:35
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From the looks of things, eating could be a real challenge.
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– Gary Walker
Jan 14 at 18:56
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Many foods are choking hazard. I presume the most popular food will be cotton candy.
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– Alexander
Jan 14 at 19:09
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So, these people are essentially living in Padded cells?
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– Alexander
Jan 14 at 18:25
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So, these people are essentially living in Padded cells?
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– Alexander
Jan 14 at 18:25
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@Alexander - Well yes. Children are not allowed out of the house. Adults can venture out into the wider areas (all paved with rubber) but they are so scared that they keep their suits on. Anyone who is seen without their cotton wool is declared a danger to the community and banished.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 18:28
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@Alexander - Well yes. Children are not allowed out of the house. Adults can venture out into the wider areas (all paved with rubber) but they are so scared that they keep their suits on. Anyone who is seen without their cotton wool is declared a danger to the community and banished.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 18:28
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I’m not sure what I expected to see when I opened this question, but that image was not it. shudders
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– Dubukay
Jan 14 at 18:35
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I’m not sure what I expected to see when I opened this question, but that image was not it. shudders
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– Dubukay
Jan 14 at 18:35
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From the looks of things, eating could be a real challenge.
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– Gary Walker
Jan 14 at 18:56
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From the looks of things, eating could be a real challenge.
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– Gary Walker
Jan 14 at 18:56
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Many foods are choking hazard. I presume the most popular food will be cotton candy.
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– Alexander
Jan 14 at 19:09
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Many foods are choking hazard. I presume the most popular food will be cotton candy.
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– Alexander
Jan 14 at 19:09
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Fire. Cotton wool is extremely flammable unless treated. If treated the chemicals themselves are toxic.
Cotton wool would need to be laundered or changed frequently or it will harbor a large number of pests, and since it traps moisture it will be a breeding ground for microbes, and mold.
Development issues. Children not let out of the house will develop muscular/skeletal issues, since without running around and jumping and falling, bones will be weak. Childhood obesity will be rampant without exercise. Children's eyesight will never develop properly and most if not all children will be nearsighted.
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They're too hot. People wearing them had better be living in sub-6℃ weather or less all the time.
Using the bathroom is a whomping inconvenience. You'd be more likely to hurt yourself trying get onto the throne than you would be without the suit.
Sound is muffled. You'd not only have trouble communicating, but you'd have trouble hearing the approaching car when you crossed the road. Good thing you're wearing the suit, yah?
You can't manipulate your world. Whether you're holding a book to read or typing on a keyboard or trying to hold a paintbrush or a knife to cook.... Of course, cooking is right out (but that's why you have servants, right?)
Your friction against the floor is nearly zero. It would be worse than walking in your socks all the time. The carpet business would boom for these people.
I can't prove it, but the inability to bring your arms to your sides or your legs together have got to have some kind of chiropractic consequence. If nothing else you'd look funny.
You'd never get a date. If you did, second base would be... complicated...
Bio-IDs would be hard to access. Finger prints, facial scans, retinal scans, thermal images, etc.
Pray you never need to vomit.
The rest of the world would start referring to you as sheeple — and mean it.
- One more thing: you could probably power the entire community with the static electricity these folks would generate walking/shuffling around. Heaven help their cat!
answered Jan 14 at 20:34
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Haha! That gave me a good laugh.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:36
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P.S. I've edited out the requirement to provide a solution to the problems.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:41
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@JBH Damned if I know what they'd do with an itchy nose. +1
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– Agrajag
Jan 14 at 21:11
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The question has now been edited such that this answer is largly irrelevant, I leave it here as a testiment to a closed time loop.
Of course the beloved cat I owned in that timeline no longer has ever existed
My original answer:
Being born and dying are the two most traumatic events that a human can undergo.
Reductio ad perfectum all humans should come into being in an dedicated super-womb caring for their every need and shielding them from any possible harm. Death has been outlawed.
Of course, education would be prohibited as the boredom that some might experience could lead to resentment and negative thinking - a form of emotional violence directed against self or others. Of course it might just be best if the individual were not aware of others at all, as this also causes all sorts of annoyance, jealousies, anger and general angst - all emotional-violence and utterly forbidden.
Entertainment would be individualised. A stimulus fed to a neonate (if such a term is applicable), would produce a reaction, closely monitored by learning machines that would apply the most sophisticated heuristics to ensure that the individual had all to please it, and had all negative emotions screened out. The individual would have no need for language or abstract thought or desire or guilt or concepts of love and pain, death and attachment.
All art, science, culture society and history would cease to exist. The machines would tend the great vats of people for thousands of generations - there being no evolutionary pressure to adapt, all mutations that could survive would. The most grotesque monstrosities could be seen floating in their amniotic soup in their mindless artificial dream.
Humanity as we know it would cease, and all that could be heard would be the whining of the life suppport, and the clicking of the mecca in their eternal pointless dance.
The surface of the Earth would become increasingly covered, layer upon layer of the new on the old, till the centre became utterly hollow - and the machines would have no choice but to expand the growth off planet.
This naturally leads to war against other civilisations that either the machines will win - and expand, or lose and ultimatley the travesties of life that was once humanity would finaly be at rest.
TL'DR:
So, in answer to your question, the challenges can be ultimatley overcome by utter anihilation of themselves or by conquering the whole universe by proxy and continuing to expand 'till the end.
answered Jan 14 at 20:18
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That is very interesting. I wonder how much cotton growing the Earth could sustain before moving to another planet became necessary.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:39
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@chasly from UK Oh lordy lordy, you were being literal in your question, who knew?
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– Agrajag
Jan 14 at 23:29
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I'm always literal in my questions. What makes you think otherwise?
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 23:38
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@chasly from UK Ok, next time I'll get you. Fingers (and eyes) crossed.
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– Agrajag
Jan 14 at 23:48
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I don't know about you, but if I was wrapped in that thing, I'd suffocate.
It's a slipping hazard. It would be worse than ice, actually, because the material would stick to the floor, and you would slide inside it, until there wasn't enough material left to keep sliding.
I don't know if this is an outright danger, but the smell would become horrible from sweating and other stray bodily wastes building up and not being properly cleaned off that.
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Fire. Cotton wool is extremely flammable unless treated. If treated the chemicals themselves are toxic.
Cotton wool would need to be laundered or changed frequently or it will harbor a large number of pests, and since it traps moisture it will be a breeding ground for microbes, and mold.
Development issues. Children not let out of the house will develop muscular/skeletal issues, since without running around and jumping and falling, bones will be weak. Childhood obesity will be rampant without exercise. Children's eyesight will never develop properly and most if not all children will be nearsighted.
edited Jan 14 at 22:10
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answered Jan 14 at 18:33
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Fire. Cotton wool is extremely flammable unless treated. If treated the chemicals themselves are toxic.
Cotton wool would need to be laundered or changed frequently or it will harbor a large number of pests, and since it traps moisture it will be a breeding ground for microbes, and mold.
Development issues. Children not let out of the house will develop muscular/skeletal issues, since without running around and jumping and falling, bones will be weak. Childhood obesity will be rampant without exercise. Children's eyesight will never develop properly and most if not all children will be nearsighted.
edited Jan 14 at 22:10
ckersch
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answered Jan 14 at 18:33
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Fire. Cotton wool is extremely flammable unless treated. If treated the chemicals themselves are toxic.
Cotton wool would need to be laundered or changed frequently or it will harbor a large number of pests, and since it traps moisture it will be a breeding ground for microbes, and mold.
Development issues. Children not let out of the house will develop muscular/skeletal issues, since without running around and jumping and falling, bones will be weak. Childhood obesity will be rampant without exercise. Children's eyesight will never develop properly and most if not all children will be nearsighted.
edited Jan 14 at 22:10
ckersch
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answered Jan 14 at 18:33
Nate WhiteNate White
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Fire. Cotton wool is extremely flammable unless treated. If treated the chemicals themselves are toxic.
Cotton wool would need to be laundered or changed frequently or it will harbor a large number of pests, and since it traps moisture it will be a breeding ground for microbes, and mold.
Development issues. Children not let out of the house will develop muscular/skeletal issues, since without running around and jumping and falling, bones will be weak. Childhood obesity will be rampant without exercise. Children's eyesight will never develop properly and most if not all children will be nearsighted.
edited Jan 14 at 22:10
ckersch
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answered Jan 14 at 18:33
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They're too hot. People wearing them had better be living in sub-6℃ weather or less all the time.
Using the bathroom is a whomping inconvenience. You'd be more likely to hurt yourself trying get onto the throne than you would be without the suit.
Sound is muffled. You'd not only have trouble communicating, but you'd have trouble hearing the approaching car when you crossed the road. Good thing you're wearing the suit, yah?
You can't manipulate your world. Whether you're holding a book to read or typing on a keyboard or trying to hold a paintbrush or a knife to cook.... Of course, cooking is right out (but that's why you have servants, right?)
Your friction against the floor is nearly zero. It would be worse than walking in your socks all the time. The carpet business would boom for these people.
I can't prove it, but the inability to bring your arms to your sides or your legs together have got to have some kind of chiropractic consequence. If nothing else you'd look funny.
You'd never get a date. If you did, second base would be... complicated...
Bio-IDs would be hard to access. Finger prints, facial scans, retinal scans, thermal images, etc.
Pray you never need to vomit.
The rest of the world would start referring to you as sheeple — and mean it.
- One more thing: you could probably power the entire community with the static electricity these folks would generate walking/shuffling around. Heaven help their cat!
answered Jan 14 at 20:34
JBHJBH
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Haha! That gave me a good laugh.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:36
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P.S. I've edited out the requirement to provide a solution to the problems.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:41
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@JBH Damned if I know what they'd do with an itchy nose. +1
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– Agrajag
Jan 14 at 21:11
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They're too hot. People wearing them had better be living in sub-6℃ weather or less all the time.
Using the bathroom is a whomping inconvenience. You'd be more likely to hurt yourself trying get onto the throne than you would be without the suit.
Sound is muffled. You'd not only have trouble communicating, but you'd have trouble hearing the approaching car when you crossed the road. Good thing you're wearing the suit, yah?
You can't manipulate your world. Whether you're holding a book to read or typing on a keyboard or trying to hold a paintbrush or a knife to cook.... Of course, cooking is right out (but that's why you have servants, right?)
Your friction against the floor is nearly zero. It would be worse than walking in your socks all the time. The carpet business would boom for these people.
I can't prove it, but the inability to bring your arms to your sides or your legs together have got to have some kind of chiropractic consequence. If nothing else you'd look funny.
You'd never get a date. If you did, second base would be... complicated...
Bio-IDs would be hard to access. Finger prints, facial scans, retinal scans, thermal images, etc.
Pray you never need to vomit.
The rest of the world would start referring to you as sheeple — and mean it.
- One more thing: you could probably power the entire community with the static electricity these folks would generate walking/shuffling around. Heaven help their cat!
answered Jan 14 at 20:34
JBHJBH
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Haha! That gave me a good laugh.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:36
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P.S. I've edited out the requirement to provide a solution to the problems.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:41
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@JBH Damned if I know what they'd do with an itchy nose. +1
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– Agrajag
Jan 14 at 21:11
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They're too hot. People wearing them had better be living in sub-6℃ weather or less all the time.
Using the bathroom is a whomping inconvenience. You'd be more likely to hurt yourself trying get onto the throne than you would be without the suit.
Sound is muffled. You'd not only have trouble communicating, but you'd have trouble hearing the approaching car when you crossed the road. Good thing you're wearing the suit, yah?
You can't manipulate your world. Whether you're holding a book to read or typing on a keyboard or trying to hold a paintbrush or a knife to cook.... Of course, cooking is right out (but that's why you have servants, right?)
Your friction against the floor is nearly zero. It would be worse than walking in your socks all the time. The carpet business would boom for these people.
I can't prove it, but the inability to bring your arms to your sides or your legs together have got to have some kind of chiropractic consequence. If nothing else you'd look funny.
You'd never get a date. If you did, second base would be... complicated...
Bio-IDs would be hard to access. Finger prints, facial scans, retinal scans, thermal images, etc.
Pray you never need to vomit.
The rest of the world would start referring to you as sheeple — and mean it.
- One more thing: you could probably power the entire community with the static electricity these folks would generate walking/shuffling around. Heaven help their cat!
answered Jan 14 at 20:34
JBHJBH
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They're too hot. People wearing them had better be living in sub-6℃ weather or less all the time.
Using the bathroom is a whomping inconvenience. You'd be more likely to hurt yourself trying get onto the throne than you would be without the suit.
Sound is muffled. You'd not only have trouble communicating, but you'd have trouble hearing the approaching car when you crossed the road. Good thing you're wearing the suit, yah?
You can't manipulate your world. Whether you're holding a book to read or typing on a keyboard or trying to hold a paintbrush or a knife to cook.... Of course, cooking is right out (but that's why you have servants, right?)
Your friction against the floor is nearly zero. It would be worse than walking in your socks all the time. The carpet business would boom for these people.
I can't prove it, but the inability to bring your arms to your sides or your legs together have got to have some kind of chiropractic consequence. If nothing else you'd look funny.
You'd never get a date. If you did, second base would be... complicated...
Bio-IDs would be hard to access. Finger prints, facial scans, retinal scans, thermal images, etc.
Pray you never need to vomit.
The rest of the world would start referring to you as sheeple — and mean it.
- One more thing: you could probably power the entire community with the static electricity these folks would generate walking/shuffling around. Heaven help their cat!
answered Jan 14 at 20:34
JBHJBH
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answered Jan 14 at 20:34
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Haha! That gave me a good laugh.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:36
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P.S. I've edited out the requirement to provide a solution to the problems.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:41
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@JBH Damned if I know what they'd do with an itchy nose. +1
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– Agrajag
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Haha! That gave me a good laugh.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:36
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P.S. I've edited out the requirement to provide a solution to the problems.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:41
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@JBH Damned if I know what they'd do with an itchy nose. +1
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– Agrajag
Jan 14 at 21:11
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Haha! That gave me a good laugh.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:36
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Haha! That gave me a good laugh.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:36
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P.S. I've edited out the requirement to provide a solution to the problems.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:41
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P.S. I've edited out the requirement to provide a solution to the problems.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:41
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@JBH Damned if I know what they'd do with an itchy nose. +1
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– Agrajag
Jan 14 at 21:11
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@JBH Damned if I know what they'd do with an itchy nose. +1
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– Agrajag
Jan 14 at 21:11
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The question has now been edited such that this answer is largly irrelevant, I leave it here as a testiment to a closed time loop.
Of course the beloved cat I owned in that timeline no longer has ever existed
My original answer:
Being born and dying are the two most traumatic events that a human can undergo.
Reductio ad perfectum all humans should come into being in an dedicated super-womb caring for their every need and shielding them from any possible harm. Death has been outlawed.
Of course, education would be prohibited as the boredom that some might experience could lead to resentment and negative thinking - a form of emotional violence directed against self or others. Of course it might just be best if the individual were not aware of others at all, as this also causes all sorts of annoyance, jealousies, anger and general angst - all emotional-violence and utterly forbidden.
Entertainment would be individualised. A stimulus fed to a neonate (if such a term is applicable), would produce a reaction, closely monitored by learning machines that would apply the most sophisticated heuristics to ensure that the individual had all to please it, and had all negative emotions screened out. The individual would have no need for language or abstract thought or desire or guilt or concepts of love and pain, death and attachment.
All art, science, culture society and history would cease to exist. The machines would tend the great vats of people for thousands of generations - there being no evolutionary pressure to adapt, all mutations that could survive would. The most grotesque monstrosities could be seen floating in their amniotic soup in their mindless artificial dream.
Humanity as we know it would cease, and all that could be heard would be the whining of the life suppport, and the clicking of the mecca in their eternal pointless dance.
The surface of the Earth would become increasingly covered, layer upon layer of the new on the old, till the centre became utterly hollow - and the machines would have no choice but to expand the growth off planet.
This naturally leads to war against other civilisations that either the machines will win - and expand, or lose and ultimatley the travesties of life that was once humanity would finaly be at rest.
TL'DR:
So, in answer to your question, the challenges can be ultimatley overcome by utter anihilation of themselves or by conquering the whole universe by proxy and continuing to expand 'till the end.
answered Jan 14 at 20:18
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That is very interesting. I wonder how much cotton growing the Earth could sustain before moving to another planet became necessary.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:39
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@chasly from UK Oh lordy lordy, you were being literal in your question, who knew?
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– Agrajag
Jan 14 at 23:29
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I'm always literal in my questions. What makes you think otherwise?
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 23:38
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@chasly from UK Ok, next time I'll get you. Fingers (and eyes) crossed.
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– Agrajag
Jan 14 at 23:48
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The question has now been edited such that this answer is largly irrelevant, I leave it here as a testiment to a closed time loop.
Of course the beloved cat I owned in that timeline no longer has ever existed
My original answer:
Being born and dying are the two most traumatic events that a human can undergo.
Reductio ad perfectum all humans should come into being in an dedicated super-womb caring for their every need and shielding them from any possible harm. Death has been outlawed.
Of course, education would be prohibited as the boredom that some might experience could lead to resentment and negative thinking - a form of emotional violence directed against self or others. Of course it might just be best if the individual were not aware of others at all, as this also causes all sorts of annoyance, jealousies, anger and general angst - all emotional-violence and utterly forbidden.
Entertainment would be individualised. A stimulus fed to a neonate (if such a term is applicable), would produce a reaction, closely monitored by learning machines that would apply the most sophisticated heuristics to ensure that the individual had all to please it, and had all negative emotions screened out. The individual would have no need for language or abstract thought or desire or guilt or concepts of love and pain, death and attachment.
All art, science, culture society and history would cease to exist. The machines would tend the great vats of people for thousands of generations - there being no evolutionary pressure to adapt, all mutations that could survive would. The most grotesque monstrosities could be seen floating in their amniotic soup in their mindless artificial dream.
Humanity as we know it would cease, and all that could be heard would be the whining of the life suppport, and the clicking of the mecca in their eternal pointless dance.
The surface of the Earth would become increasingly covered, layer upon layer of the new on the old, till the centre became utterly hollow - and the machines would have no choice but to expand the growth off planet.
This naturally leads to war against other civilisations that either the machines will win - and expand, or lose and ultimatley the travesties of life that was once humanity would finaly be at rest.
TL'DR:
So, in answer to your question, the challenges can be ultimatley overcome by utter anihilation of themselves or by conquering the whole universe by proxy and continuing to expand 'till the end.
answered Jan 14 at 20:18
AgrajagAgrajag
3,983734
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That is very interesting. I wonder how much cotton growing the Earth could sustain before moving to another planet became necessary.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:39
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@chasly from UK Oh lordy lordy, you were being literal in your question, who knew?
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– Agrajag
Jan 14 at 23:29
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I'm always literal in my questions. What makes you think otherwise?
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 23:38
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@chasly from UK Ok, next time I'll get you. Fingers (and eyes) crossed.
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– Agrajag
Jan 14 at 23:48
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The question has now been edited such that this answer is largly irrelevant, I leave it here as a testiment to a closed time loop.
Of course the beloved cat I owned in that timeline no longer has ever existed
My original answer:
Being born and dying are the two most traumatic events that a human can undergo.
Reductio ad perfectum all humans should come into being in an dedicated super-womb caring for their every need and shielding them from any possible harm. Death has been outlawed.
Of course, education would be prohibited as the boredom that some might experience could lead to resentment and negative thinking - a form of emotional violence directed against self or others. Of course it might just be best if the individual were not aware of others at all, as this also causes all sorts of annoyance, jealousies, anger and general angst - all emotional-violence and utterly forbidden.
Entertainment would be individualised. A stimulus fed to a neonate (if such a term is applicable), would produce a reaction, closely monitored by learning machines that would apply the most sophisticated heuristics to ensure that the individual had all to please it, and had all negative emotions screened out. The individual would have no need for language or abstract thought or desire or guilt or concepts of love and pain, death and attachment.
All art, science, culture society and history would cease to exist. The machines would tend the great vats of people for thousands of generations - there being no evolutionary pressure to adapt, all mutations that could survive would. The most grotesque monstrosities could be seen floating in their amniotic soup in their mindless artificial dream.
Humanity as we know it would cease, and all that could be heard would be the whining of the life suppport, and the clicking of the mecca in their eternal pointless dance.
The surface of the Earth would become increasingly covered, layer upon layer of the new on the old, till the centre became utterly hollow - and the machines would have no choice but to expand the growth off planet.
This naturally leads to war against other civilisations that either the machines will win - and expand, or lose and ultimatley the travesties of life that was once humanity would finaly be at rest.
TL'DR:
So, in answer to your question, the challenges can be ultimatley overcome by utter anihilation of themselves or by conquering the whole universe by proxy and continuing to expand 'till the end.
answered Jan 14 at 20:18
AgrajagAgrajag
3,983734
$endgroup$
The question has now been edited such that this answer is largly irrelevant, I leave it here as a testiment to a closed time loop.
Of course the beloved cat I owned in that timeline no longer has ever existed
My original answer:
Being born and dying are the two most traumatic events that a human can undergo.
Reductio ad perfectum all humans should come into being in an dedicated super-womb caring for their every need and shielding them from any possible harm. Death has been outlawed.
Of course, education would be prohibited as the boredom that some might experience could lead to resentment and negative thinking - a form of emotional violence directed against self or others. Of course it might just be best if the individual were not aware of others at all, as this also causes all sorts of annoyance, jealousies, anger and general angst - all emotional-violence and utterly forbidden.
Entertainment would be individualised. A stimulus fed to a neonate (if such a term is applicable), would produce a reaction, closely monitored by learning machines that would apply the most sophisticated heuristics to ensure that the individual had all to please it, and had all negative emotions screened out. The individual would have no need for language or abstract thought or desire or guilt or concepts of love and pain, death and attachment.
All art, science, culture society and history would cease to exist. The machines would tend the great vats of people for thousands of generations - there being no evolutionary pressure to adapt, all mutations that could survive would. The most grotesque monstrosities could be seen floating in their amniotic soup in their mindless artificial dream.
Humanity as we know it would cease, and all that could be heard would be the whining of the life suppport, and the clicking of the mecca in their eternal pointless dance.
The surface of the Earth would become increasingly covered, layer upon layer of the new on the old, till the centre became utterly hollow - and the machines would have no choice but to expand the growth off planet.
This naturally leads to war against other civilisations that either the machines will win - and expand, or lose and ultimatley the travesties of life that was once humanity would finaly be at rest.
TL'DR:
So, in answer to your question, the challenges can be ultimatley overcome by utter anihilation of themselves or by conquering the whole universe by proxy and continuing to expand 'till the end.
answered Jan 14 at 20:18
AgrajagAgrajag
3,983734
edited Jan 14 at 21:16
answered Jan 14 at 20:18
AgrajagAgrajag
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answered Jan 14 at 20:18
AgrajagAgrajag
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answered Jan 14 at 20:18
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That is very interesting. I wonder how much cotton growing the Earth could sustain before moving to another planet became necessary.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:39
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@chasly from UK Oh lordy lordy, you were being literal in your question, who knew?
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– Agrajag
Jan 14 at 23:29
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I'm always literal in my questions. What makes you think otherwise?
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 23:38
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@chasly from UK Ok, next time I'll get you. Fingers (and eyes) crossed.
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– Agrajag
Jan 14 at 23:48
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That is very interesting. I wonder how much cotton growing the Earth could sustain before moving to another planet became necessary.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:39
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@chasly from UK Oh lordy lordy, you were being literal in your question, who knew?
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– Agrajag
Jan 14 at 23:29
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I'm always literal in my questions. What makes you think otherwise?
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 23:38
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@chasly from UK Ok, next time I'll get you. Fingers (and eyes) crossed.
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– Agrajag
Jan 14 at 23:48
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That is very interesting. I wonder how much cotton growing the Earth could sustain before moving to another planet became necessary.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:39
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That is very interesting. I wonder how much cotton growing the Earth could sustain before moving to another planet became necessary.
$endgroup$
– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 20:39
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@chasly from UK Oh lordy lordy, you were being literal in your question, who knew?
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– Agrajag
Jan 14 at 23:29
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@chasly from UK Oh lordy lordy, you were being literal in your question, who knew?
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– Agrajag
Jan 14 at 23:29
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I'm always literal in my questions. What makes you think otherwise?
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 23:38
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I'm always literal in my questions. What makes you think otherwise?
$endgroup$
– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 23:38
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@chasly from UK Ok, next time I'll get you. Fingers (and eyes) crossed.
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– Agrajag
Jan 14 at 23:48
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@chasly from UK Ok, next time I'll get you. Fingers (and eyes) crossed.
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– Agrajag
Jan 14 at 23:48
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I don't know about you, but if I was wrapped in that thing, I'd suffocate.
It's a slipping hazard. It would be worse than ice, actually, because the material would stick to the floor, and you would slide inside it, until there wasn't enough material left to keep sliding.
I don't know if this is an outright danger, but the smell would become horrible from sweating and other stray bodily wastes building up and not being properly cleaned off that.
answered Jan 14 at 22:04
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I don't know about you, but if I was wrapped in that thing, I'd suffocate.
It's a slipping hazard. It would be worse than ice, actually, because the material would stick to the floor, and you would slide inside it, until there wasn't enough material left to keep sliding.
I don't know if this is an outright danger, but the smell would become horrible from sweating and other stray bodily wastes building up and not being properly cleaned off that.
answered Jan 14 at 22:04
Hosch250Hosch250
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I don't know about you, but if I was wrapped in that thing, I'd suffocate.
It's a slipping hazard. It would be worse than ice, actually, because the material would stick to the floor, and you would slide inside it, until there wasn't enough material left to keep sliding.
I don't know if this is an outright danger, but the smell would become horrible from sweating and other stray bodily wastes building up and not being properly cleaned off that.
answered Jan 14 at 22:04
Hosch250Hosch250
397420
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I don't know about you, but if I was wrapped in that thing, I'd suffocate.
It's a slipping hazard. It would be worse than ice, actually, because the material would stick to the floor, and you would slide inside it, until there wasn't enough material left to keep sliding.
I don't know if this is an outright danger, but the smell would become horrible from sweating and other stray bodily wastes building up and not being properly cleaned off that.
answered Jan 14 at 22:04
Hosch250Hosch250
397420
answered Jan 14 at 22:04
Hosch250Hosch250
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answered Jan 14 at 22:04
Hosch250Hosch250
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answered Jan 14 at 22:04
Hosch250Hosch250
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So, these people are essentially living in Padded cells?
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– Alexander
Jan 14 at 18:25
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@Alexander - Well yes. Children are not allowed out of the house. Adults can venture out into the wider areas (all paved with rubber) but they are so scared that they keep their suits on. Anyone who is seen without their cotton wool is declared a danger to the community and banished.
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– chasly from UK
Jan 14 at 18:28
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I’m not sure what I expected to see when I opened this question, but that image was not it. shudders
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– Dubukay
Jan 14 at 18:35
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From the looks of things, eating could be a real challenge.
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– Gary Walker
Jan 14 at 18:56
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Many foods are choking hazard. I presume the most popular food will be cotton candy.
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– Alexander
Jan 14 at 19:09