/sci/ - Science & Math

Premise: intelligent aliens make contact. They are evolved from marine mammals and visited millions of years ago to find that marine mammals on Earth were also the most intelligent lifeform. Thos appealed to their vanity and is what makes Earth special to them. Additionally on their own world, something similar to hominids hunted and killed their kind well into their industrial phase due to the strategic advantages of being evolved for life on land. This has culturally biased them against us.

Consequently they refuse to directly make contact with humanity and instead insist on carrying out all diplomatic contact through dolphin ambassadors. They will provide the implants necessary to communicate with the dolphins but we must design and launch an orbital embassy suited for comfortable dolphin habitation in the next fifteen years.

What are the basic considerations involved in designing a zero g space habitat for dolphins? They must be kept moist for example but the modules cannot be water filled because in the absence of gravity air would not collect any one particular place and the inhabitants would drown. Oxygenated fluorocarbon would be ideal but very heavy and would require frequent recirculation as it's easier to develop CO2 pockets in stagnant fluid as it's denser. Humid air would work, but also encourage rapid bacterial growth and it creates the problem of how the dolphin is supposed to locomote.

Propose design concepts that overcome these and other issues, with mspaint sketches where necessary.

>>3590215

>Underwater dolphins tend to ignore scuba divers, however I believe that's because underwater dolphins move insanely fast underwater and most likely over look divers.

Uhh, see pic. They don't overlook divers.