/sci/ - Science & Math

Did you update your comics mothafucka?

>>3273744
Okay, you did but I had seen that one on the chan before and I'm not satisfied.
Entertain me.

>>3273753

That's what this thread is for. Participate! :>

>>3273759
But I don't know shit about undersea facilities or even extreme conditions bases.
I'll never provide any worthwhile content to /sci/.

>>3273772

It's MSPaint. Just draw a room in the same style as the existing one and customize it. Add the stuff inside you'd want, then connect it to the first one via a tunnel.

>>3273801

What a fascinating sea creature you've discovered.

>>3273783
I had friends who were fond of this kind of drawings with submarines or battleships but it seems so vain.
For example where does those toilets evacuate?

>>3273810

Directly into the water, as with actual historical sea bases. Bottom feeding fish take care of it within minutes. Something many on /Sci/ seem to have become morbidly fascinated with in past sea threads.

Every undersea base needs some beneficial Sanity Plant.

>>3273883

Awesome, makin' progress. What's next?

can you add a periscope please and a cable to the closest internet provider.

>>3273900
Elevator at the adjoining bit of the greenhouse.
Actually, gimme a sec. I wanna make something awesome.

fiber optic internet with a datacenter room

make this financially viable

>>3273940 financially viable

lets add 10 female crewmates and make the uniform a string bikini. That should get viewership on the cameras up. only 19.95 a month.

>>3273959
i'll be the sexy repairman/janitor/scientist/teacher/stereotypicalpornactor

>>3273968
this is the ocean, you get the be the intelligent octopus

not finished yet, still working out how to MS paint a geothermal energy generator

As I said in the costco thread, you would be right at home on /tg/, Mad Scientist.

>>3273982
Yeah, I'm surprised I haven't seen you there.

I vote we get some rooms below the sea floor. Not really sure what to put in them, maybe tunnels to the nearest island?

I'm not ok with this "/Sci/" thing.

Is it really that hard to type /sci/...

>>3273810
>implying countless fish don't shit in the ocean.
>>3274013
Sorry, is your issue with the capitalized letter? Get over it.

Okay, I've added a tree dome and a little pod for viewing the coral reef.

Now with liquid fluoride Thorium reactor!

>>3274035
>>3274036
Hooray! my two favorite tripfriends.

>>3273976
>>3274035
>>3274036

Okay, just gimme a second to cobble all of these together...

>>3273976
>>3274042
Oh, you too, Odd.

>>3273883
added to yours, since your was the only picture at the time I started drawing this and it took me ages, I didnt include the LFR update, added lab with animals and some computers.

>>3274049
Problem: You saved yours as a .jpg. We need .png's otherwise it's ridiculously time consuming colouring in rather than just using paint bucket tool.

I ask the sponsor to build something that can get /sci/ out of the Costco instead.

>>3274053
OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE, OH GOD. wait a sec i think i can fix this.

not sure if compatible
the grey thing over the vent is a really big nozzle, the water gets pulled in, used to generate electricity, then sent along the orange/yellow pipe to provide heating where needed. On an actual thing it'd be a much better idea to use the heat from the vent to warm freshwater, so it could be used for sanitation also.

>>3274036

Okay, the thorium reactor is added. Waiting on the animal lab guy to save his as PNG, and when !/oddSpacew finishes his module I'll add that.

Here's the base as it currently stands.

Yes that is another pod with its own underwater research station in it. Problem?

/r/'ing someone add a heli-pad.

>>3274072
I lol'd. making a rigid inflatable surface thingy now

does anyone know where the water geothermal vents spew up comes from?

>>3274075
>Inflatable

Fuck no, I think big. Helicopter will fly UNDERFUCKINGWATER so it will need an underwater heli-pad.

>>3274090

A helisub!

Whew. Okay, here's the current one with everyone's shit added and prettied up.

>>3274101
Gee, what are we going to do with all that power?

Gotta make a space elevator.

>>3274090
;_;
already made it.

>>3274101
oh god, I just noticed how bad that turbine is.

>>3274113

Looks good, gimme a moment to add it in.

>>3274103

Elevators are for lame geeks.

We need a railgun capable of launching spaceships. We'll figure out a way not to kill the pilots later, if we need them at all.

Okay, there. I also changed the wired comms buoy to one that relays info to the base via accoustic modem. That way the wire doesn't block any future additions. I also added additional expansion ports.

>>3274130
...That's actually my plan for launching payloads to LEO and GEO.

>>3274134
a winrar is you
the PC is on a 5*4 rendition on /sci/ :3

>>3274145

Hahahaha! I didn't even notice that!

There's space on the far left. Add the habitat you're actually planning to make. It's 1atm so it can be separate from the rest of the station. We'll visit you periodically and drop off supplies for your private research. :3

Doesn't that brazilian edition of 4chan has got an underwater station on their /int/ ???

For some reason I find this topic very awesome.

Can't help but notice that there's no actual laboratory yet.

So, uh... I'm a geologist. Can I have some boring equipment/big-ass drill that attaches to a collection room for rock specimen?

with the whole minisub docking bay it should be designed like this not only for safety, but for practicality

>>3274198
>big-ass drill
>big ass-drill

We're going to need a lot more computers, a cafeteria, and a general chemistry/biology lab.

I got the scale wrong and had to enlarge it about 30%, which probably messed things up a bit. Still looks aight though.

>>3274204
stick wherever you want/

i'll volunteer to be onsite food/weed horticulturist and the IT guy (provided i get a basement room)

>>3274203

Clean up the art a bit, and I'll definitely add this.

>>3274214

Okay, your habitat is added. It will be valuable for the study of ambient pressure on human physiology as well as a haven for saturation divers while they decompress. :3

>>3274208

Definitely correct. Want to draw them?

>>3274233
>Clean up the art a bit, and I'll definitely add this.
i'll try

>>3274244
... actually could someone that is a bit more artistically inclined do that?
>i'm using mspaint and a shitty mouse

>>3274251
we all are :/

>>3274251
I'm using MS Paint with a shitty Dell optical mouse on a old discarded leather cushion from an ancient sofa.

All it takes is practice. :3

>>3274258
>>3274257
alright, now i don't feel like i'm underequipped...
what exactly should be cleaned up?
the walls/floors on the docking bay
the subs themselves?

>>3274264
Use 1-pixel thick line tool, 1-pixel thick rectangle and rounded rectangle tool, and paint bucket. Attempt to make it clean and relatively uniform to the original style.

>>3274264
all of it, if you can :/
hold control and scroll up/press plus until you're on a more comfortable scale, then touch up the hazard markings/subs and remove the text (isn't needed)

Nice sealab guise.

Whew, okay. Apartments added.

I'd come along if I could and generally get in the way and irritate people with questions about hydrothermal vents (when life was discovered around them it was one of the most important discoveries in human history in my opinion) whether anybody was remotely involved with studying them or not.

I brew a mean burbon so I could possibly run a canteen. I doubt many of you drink now but you'd probably develop a thirst after a few weeks of isolation in the habitat.

And I can fillet fish fairly quickly, which would free up somebody else to do something more important. Although I'd be interested in eating food made personally by chemists.

Obviously it wouldnt really matter where the canteen was as long as it was out of the way so that may be a bit of a wildcard.

>>3274283
we need a large stylish community center

Still needed: Computer lab, cafeteria, geology lab, chemistry lab.

>>3274294

>>(when life was discovered around them it was one of the most important discoveries in human history in my opinion)

THANK YOU. SOMEONE GETS IT.

>>3274294
>food made personally by chemists.

biochem, bacteria protein sludge farms. It tastes like chicken! Easy to make underwater with that much energy.

But I'm going to be lonely :(

I have been browsing /sci/ for a long time. Would you like this base to become a reality?

Since Elderbro gets how awesome thermal vents are, I've decided to give him his cantina. The Captain's Keg. :3

>>3274356
Sure, bro. Better than putting all that money towards SpaceX.

>>3274356

Mr. Elon, sir, my body trembles with untold readiness.

>>3274374
I have my own personal account which is not connected to the funds required for the upkeep of SpaceX and Tesla Motors.

>>3274370
Obviously, whoever it is that's drawing the geology lab needs to put it next to the bar. In my experience, geologists have booze for blood.

>>3274356

>>I have been browsing /sci/ for a long time. Would you like this base to become a reality?

Well, Richard Branson is getting into deep sea technology with Virgin Oceanic.

An undersea research base would be a good way to one-up him. Look at the pic. Look how smug and happy he is. A large, well equipped deep sea science station would make him peanut butthurt and jelly.

>>3274381

>>Obviously, whoever it is that's drawing the geology lab needs to put it next to the bar. In my experience, geologists have booze for blood.

I was thinking so too, since it could have a collector on the underside just above the hydrothermal vent that would let them study its particulate emissions.

Question:
Who gets the main bedroom? Is it for guests? The financier?

Also:
We need someone with an eye for pragmatic design to rearrange the rooms once we're finished. Ideally, the lesser used spaces would be on the ends of the lab, while work areas and living arrangements would be in the center.

what's at the top of the main apartment?

Gaming capsule with a hatch on top.

>>3274268
>>3274269
yessir

We need some sort of defense system.

>>3274408
see>>3274406

>>3274399

>>what's at the top of the main apartment?

An accoustic transmission dish that sends data to the buoy above it on the surface, which relays that data to shore. It's how we get internet.

>>3274396

>>Who gets the main bedroom? Is it for guests? The financier?

Doesn't really matter. It was just there as something to start with, so that those overseeing construction had the basic necessities.

>>3274406
Make the text size much smaller, fitting to the inside of the wall of the submarine room. Delete the arrow, and it's fantastic. You did a good job, mate.

>>3274420
thanks mang

We need a physics lab. A particle accelerator surrounded by heavy water. Oh wait, it sounds like a shitty idea.

>>3274396
>Question:Who gets the main bedroom? Is it for guests? The financier?
consider the fact that everyone has to walk through there to get to their rooms/workstations

I added a small room where some people can watch TV and play videogames :D

>>3273883
brb patent office

>>3274441
Patent office for what exactly?

Weed greenhouse under the sea?

>>3274428
This is something to be considered. I think we should just make is an empty hallway with nice windows.

>>3274438
>right next to bar

Fucking awesome.

I propose that in anticipation of the eventual clusterfuck of buildings that we add a bit of a third dimension to it, but making some buildings with smaller proportions to the rest with a more bluish colour to suggest it is further away.

Okay, added the nuclear sub pen (plus an airlock, since the sub pen is at ambient pressure and the rest of the base is at 1atm).

What now? Cafeteria? Geology lab?

I propose we get rid of the apartments located next to the main computer for the transmission dish. Instead, we put in an elevator. That way, we can design a compartmentalized lab building for research, and maybe even attach it to the main apartments.

>>3274477
def. the geolab.

I'd like to contribute something but I have zero artistic skills even with MS Paint pixel art.

Mad Scientist, you're my favorite tripfag ever.

>mon visage

>>3274460
I'm copy and pasting one closer to the living quarters so we don't have to walk fucking forever to get there

>>3274438

Okay, entertainment room has been added. It's cute. :3

>>3274477
Recreational room! Couches, videogames, TV, DVD player!

See>>3274497
>>3274438

this is wonderful.

You guys aren't drawing this with a mouse are you?

any ideas of what to put in this tower?

judging by the water depth in relation to the sizes of beds, it looks to be fairly shallow. i say we move this bad boy to the edge of the continental shelf, right by the drop off

>>3274504
see
>>3274251
>>3274258

>>3274504
>trackpad

>>3274504
I made the entertainment room with a mouse. Just use MS paint and the oval tool, line tool, bucket tool. and pencil tool filling in pixel by pixel for small details

>>3274507
Communications hub between other bases.

>>3274509
Oh, FUCK YES. Way more research opportunities if we just chop off some of the side of the pic.

>>3274502

I won't just copy and paste it. Every room should be unique. Another gaming room is fine, but it should be done from scratch.

>>3274509
This.
The deeper the better.

To what depth are nuclear submarines able to submerge by the way?

>>3274529
Ok I'll get on making another one then

>>3274530
800 feet or so.

changed the tower

>>3274551

Looks much better. Now I can add it. I was gonna ask you to revise it but I didn't wanna be a jerk.

Also, this works wonderfully; "Background" buildings can simply be opaque, whereas we can see into the interior of the foreground buildings.

Does that sound okay to everyone?

>>3274553
we all agree

>>3274533
Made a second rec room :D
This time it's a xbox360
Last one was a PS3
Closer to living quarters so you don't need to move very far in order to play

Okay, comms tower added. It can communicate to passing subs via accousting or blue/green lasers aimed at the sub's photoreceptor dish.

>>3274509
>>3274479

>>3274569

You only recolored it. :-\

It's fine, I'll do one.

>>3274586
? I recoloured the chairs but made everything else from scratch
The stuff is all the same shape (TV, shelf, electronics cabinet, controllers) so it pretty much looks the same anyway

On second thought, I don't want to waste the work that went into that even if I don't personally like it. So it's going in. This is about what you guys want. :3

Also, complying with earlier requests, this base is now located on the edge of the continental shelf.

Someone add residential areas. People need to sleep someplace.

GLORIOUS /sci/entists, I present to you the very clean and efficient, Ocean Thermal Energy Technology.

This looming tower that is floating so vertically in the roiling waves of the ominous ocean may come off as a waste of space, but the technology is actually a very useful heat engine.

The temperature difference at the surface of the ocean and the bottom of the ocean creates a gradient in which mechanical and work can be extracted from. Where does the temperature difference come from? Well, the sun of course! I have connected the platform to the grid, or what I think is the grid...fix it if I did it wrong.

Feel free to draw over the long vertical area, for it merely serves as a placeholder.

>>3274624

Wouldn't it be more efficient to extend it to the ocean floor?

>>3274624

Awesome! Added, and I also put in some geologically interesting stuff on the abyssal plain so there's some reason to send research subs/probes down there. :3c

I move that we name this base 'Cthulhu 1'

>>3274627
Bad Idea.
We'd probably hit C'thulu

I actually don't know if he's supposed to sleep on the ocean floor or under it

>>3274627

Well you could I guess, but I wanted to leave room for other structures.

>>3274627
we should at least have part of the base going down the continental slope to the abyssal plains

something to consider in the design: wat do about turbidity currents?

>>3274632

>>We'd probably hit C'thulu

>:3

>>3274655
>>3274628
Ooh, ooh! Let's have some sort of track going down the abyssal slope so that we can more easily transport researchers and equipment up and down!

wtf is that long structure connected to the surface and the heat exchangers?
don't tell me it's something to do with desalination...
we can handle that with the nuclear reactor (LFTR)
also, someone should really connect the sub basement delta to the rest of the base in case of war

>>3274666

This:>>3274624

>>3274624
Is this based on Sterling engine technology? I know they use this to reduce cooling bills in cities near lakes (I know of Toronto), but for direct energy production

Also, in general, I think that individual showers in the apartments is a bad idea. A communal shower/toilet room would be smarter, and reduce cost greatly.

Finally, I think we need a direct hall from the Booze room to the food room. It seems risky in the case of emergencies to have to run through a glass domed (and thus highly prone to flooding) forest.

Thoughts?

>>3274658
very nice. reminds of space colony. good times were had and many brix were shat.

>>3274655
just looked up turbidity currents. those could seriously fuck over any sort of track/structure going down the continental slope

>>3274666
It's exploiting the temperature gradient between the surface and the deep waters in order to generate power. Nice deviltrips, by the way.
>>3274627
Not really. Most of the thermocline is only a few hundred meters down, so extending it to the floor would mean a lot of extra construction for very little extra gain. Pic related.

we really need to redesign our architecture

>>3274671
Not sure. This is where I got my references from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_thermal_energy_conversion

Of course the model I drew is merely a simple representation.

>>3274655
>>3274664

Excellent ideas, but I've been doing most of the work so far. That's fair, I started the thread, but I figure my job is to stitch peoples' additions into the main image and keep it up to date. I don't want to have to draw every new module too.

Can I get some volunteers to draw new additions? We still need that geology lab, cafeteria and chemistry lab.

why does that thing on the far left look like a truck drawbar trailer? it's awful.

>>3274701
I was actually considering telling /g/ about this
i'm sure they'll love it

>>3274725
second
>>3274720
second

If people make requests, I can work on some modules into the night.

I added a limestone cavern geology research lab

>>3274744

Awesome. :3

I've added sea caves to explore/build in.

>>3274720

>>why does that thing on the far left look like a truck drawbar trailer? it's awful.

Because that's what it is. It's an mspaint representation of an actual ambient pressure habitat being built by !/oddSpacew from a tanker trailer.

I've added a marijuana garden on top of the bar.

I found it fitting.

Also, fuck you /sci/, it's 3:50AM where I live, and I'm up because of this thread.

>>3274744
Do we have any sort of medical area just in case? Or a depressurizing area, just on the off-chance it's needed?

A cell or something in case someone ends up doing something highly illegal or dangerous might work in case of cabin fever. But that might just make the research station look funky, when someone like that could just be sent to the surface to be picked up.

As this place grows, you'll find that we need a more efficient means of travel.

>>3274764

Don't we already have a weed garden? @_@

>>3274764
smoking should be done in the dome and bar areas only

idk, i'm sure some people on /sci/ don't like the dank

>>3274787
Oh yeah.

Well, can't get enough weed.

>>3274789
>smoking weed in the tree dome, lying on the grass among the trees, watching the fish swim around above you

DUDE. We need to build this base.

>>3274761

Okay, added cavern lab plus an appropriate light gradient down to the abyssal plain.

A bar, and two pot grow ops, yet no laboratories except Cavern Lab. Which I guess can be our geology lab.

I knew this would happen and I love you guys for it.

>>3274803

I've only been loosely monitoring this thread...

But wow /sci/...

>>3274816
Guys.

How do we get to the base from the helipad?

>>3274821

Via submersible. See the two subs docked to the main starting hub? There's a docking port under the helipad.

That's also currently the only way to get to the nuclear submarine pen.

>>3274821

Teleportation.

Okay, I'm working on a cafeteria, several lab modules, a bore hole digger, a medical clinic, and a depressurization tank.

Any other requests before I get off to work on these things?

>>3274832
what, no sea elevator?

>>3274840
A party room with DJ gear and everything.

>>3274840

>>Any other requests before I get off to work on these things?

A large airlock with several atmospheric diving exoskeletons (pictured) inside would be great. It'd be on or near the sea floor with a ramp from the outer door down to the seabed.

I'll post my stuff tomorrow morning

>>3274840
please make the thing on the left look less like a truck semi trailer

>>3274861

>>please make the thing on the left look less like a truck semi trailer

But that's what it is. A low tech, homemade ambient pressure habitat built out of a semi truck's water tank trailer.

>>3274840
The medical lab should be on ground floor, or at least not somewhere where you have to use ladders.

Funny thing: I first thought there was a portal-connection between the weed garden and the surface

>>3274890
*clinic

>>3274890

There's a tunnel coming off the apartment tower that doesn't go to anything. It's nearest where people live and there's an elevator up to it. That would be the ideal location.

Are we going to do anything with that exploratory mining and drill?

Also what's that small room deep in the rock?

What about us Engineers? We need dick to suck.

i almost want to make a game out of this
wtf would it be about....

>>3274894
cool idea.
and put a small molecular biology lab next to the clinic. so the surgeon can have biologists do pcr and cell culture on his excised tumors and labtechs do blood blood tests

>>3274898

>>Are we going to do anything with that exploratory mining and drill?

Drill added. Specifically, the one that will bust through the heave-....sea floor.

>>3274943
why did you remove that floating orange thing that had this long wire connection to the base?

Ive added a rotating restaurant. Why? Why not?
The top floor has seating for diners.
The lower floor has a kitchen

How about a nice room/cell/whatever separate from the others to put troublemakers?

>>3274960
That might be useful if we need extra cash and fill the apartments with rich tourists.

>>3274960
Now add a near shore rock slide and you'll have a completely realistic fantasy.

>>3274953

>>why did you remove that floating orange thing that had this long wire connection to the base?

The wire would obstruct any buildings in that space, and such a buoy would be ripped away by the first hurricane. I opted for a wireless system with an amphibious buoy that can submerge in the event of a storm.

>>3274960

Fucking awesome. Added.

>>3274070
This revolutionary new design has an underwater pod built right into the under water pod of the under water pod

>>3274840
>>3274911
>>3274894
the med clinics/lab should be also connected to the big pipe with the the first movie/relax room

/sci/, I am proud

>>3274998
I just realized that when I was making the restaurant, I forgot to fully erase a beam that is connected to the entrance of the tree room. You may want to fix that

>>3274998
Okay Mad, I know you're on the way out but this colony/habitat is missing a very key piece of infrastructure: a financial center.

We need a bank, office space, server racks, and post office boxes. Why? Because were this habitat to declare itself an independent country, we could become a tax haven and offshore financial center. The benefits of this are obvious.

>>3275037

Thanks for the tip, it's gotten so detailed that it's difficult to spot stuff like that.

We need a library!
Reading material and for research!

>>3275055

>>Okay Mad, I know you're on the way out

Says who? I'm pretty much just waiting for people to draw additional modules.

>>3275037
put that monstrosity on top of the apartments.
i mean seriously, the dome is where the smokers and sight see-ers will be gazing up to see the underwater scenery -not some fat fucks stuffing their faces with raviolis

>>3275062
Oh, saw you mention that you were only up for a few more then you were ditching the thread.

We seriously need a bank. We could be like the Cayman Islands, with more registered companies than actual inhabitants. One building there has more than 20,000 companies registered to its address.

To similar ends, we need submarine pens for our mighty navy. Also, we need a mighty navy.

>>3275079
>To similar ends, we need submarine pens for our mighty navy. Also, we need a mighty navy.
sub base delta is already in there....
you just seem to be late to the thread bro...

We might want to add a SAM turret to the helipad to defend against non-aquatic threats.

>>3275086
we have icbm capable subs
no country with 2 brain cells to knock together will fuck with us.
being as we have absolutely nothing to lose from nuclear war

What if we do find Cthulu

>>3275092
take ask if he will help us with world domination
>for science

>>3275092

He's right down there in the cave mouth. Don't want to find him, don't go down there.

Of course we could always attempt a sneak attack from behind, via the cave network...

I've altered the underground cave I previously made so that it now is connected to the whole underwater cave system.
I figure it could be a good place to conduct exploration, so I added a little guy in a diving suit, and a system of pulleys that suspends his oxygen tube

>>3275109
forgot pic

>>3275111
>>3275109

This presents a problem. You've exposed the base to ambient ocean pressure. Mind if I put an airlock between the cavern and the pool?

>>3275081
Militarized pens. Hardened against attack.
>>3275086
A large array of VLS cells would do nicely. We also need special operations subs for insertion of intelligence agents and special forces teams.

A university would also be nice to have. We can specialize in marine biology, pharmaceutical biotechnology, undersea mining/excavation/construction engineering, law, and finance. I'll run the law school.
>>3275107
As a member of the habitat/nation's board of directors, I recommend that we attack Cthulhu and take it alive. We'll send in USV's to take biological samples first so we can effectively subdue the beast/elder one. Once we have it secured, we can start the process of patenting bits and pieces of its genome for the sake of producing or licensing Cthulhu-based biotechnology products.

Vehicle Assembly and Launch chamber.

ICBMs/Spacecraft and such. Still working on it.

>>3275115
Yeah. go ahead and fix it. I've always been more of an idea man than a laws of physics man

Here's the altered cavern, with an airlock at the bottom of the elevator so that the base remains at 1 atmosphere.

How about some awesome biology department with partially submerged areas for studying trapped deep sea fish and things. Or would that all be best done with probes?

>>3275155
Deep sea creatures don't do well in captivity. I'd imagine that studying them with probes would be more efficient and get us better data.

The biology department plays a large part in funding the habitat, actually. All novel bioproducts discovered by its research teams is patented and turned over to the semi state-owned pharmaceutical company. Profits are used to further fund the university, help buy infrastructure for the habitat, and line the pockets of residents.
Mad Scientist, can you please get to work making this practical? I really really want to live in/help rule a militarized, scientific, tax haven under the sea.

>fixed
because fuck you trying to block out the dome

Those caves you added make me WAT at the original hydrothermal vents

What would you be researching?

If you are just testing how to survive underwater, then why do we need to develop a means of surviving underwater?

Either we need an oil rig or an underwater mine or the entire expedition will become a pointless white elephant.

>>3275178
>patents
>pharmaceutical companies

Shits becoming less and less fun in this thread I see.

>>3275202
I prefer this as it means less traffic going through the living areas, instead using elevator access.

Still here guys, just working on integrating that space launch system into the base.

DICKS EVERYWHERE

>>3275224
Only less fun if you don't want to be rich.

It's one thing to have an undersea colony, it's an entirely separate thing to have it be financially viable. Would you rather live in a remote research habitat or a Dubai/Switzerland under the waves?

We need a sport to play. Spearfishing would be amusing, but we need something else. Decompression kinda limits our ability to play anything for prolonged periods underwater.
Fencing strips? Basketball court? Kayaks up above?

Also, we need a brewery.

PHALLUS OMNIPRESENT

Is there a need for viewing ports (like those in the living quaters) in the midnight zone?

>>3275249
I'd like to have as little to do with the outside as possible, the only thing we need from the outside is the ability to get information regarding to research we aren't carrying out down there.

Opening it up to economics is a quick way to open it up to take overs by outside forces.

Presto: An amphibious launch system! Essentially a pressure lock for rockets.

Here's my little coffee shop / lounge area.
(it links the two areas beneath the tree part)

>>3275260
AHEM....
the dome fucking should look like this
>>3275250

>>3275249
>We need a sport to play.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_basket_weaving

>>3275260
I like it.
>>3275257
We don't have to be completely open to tourists. We can implement mandatory "medical checks" and impose massive "visa processing fees" for all visitors. As far as outside forces, that's not really a concern. We can open our economy without being dominated by outside forces. Contractual terms and obligations for any and all outside investors/partners could keep us relatively insular. Not to mention, we could impose steep taxes on all foreign businesses working within our territory, though businesses/shell companies nominally based in our colony enjoy tax exempt status on all foreign-earned income.

A degree of economic openness benefits us all. Wouldn't you rather get checks from the government instead of paying any taxes?

>>3275260
>USA

>>3275267
I assume the reason it doesn't is that it's easier to move people to the other side of the base than it is to move food to the other side of the base.

>>3275266

Why does the scuba suit thingy connect to a tank of water?

>>3275266

Cool! Added.

>>3275278
>I assume the reason it doesn't is that it's easier to move people to the other side of the base than it is to move food to the other side of the base.

that could be it, also, living quarters should be near food, and the fucking scenic dome shouldn't have a big-ass building blocking the scenery

Can we get a sports/exercise area?

>>3275284
Because I clearly wasn't thinking straight when i drew it.
Nice catch, somebody might want to fix that.. i'm too tired

>>3275266
am i the only one that has a problem with caves under the hydro-thermal vents?

>>3275285
>A geothermal vents sustaining itself despite having a massive cavern below them

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but retconning the cavern has kinda messed things up.

>>3275285

>>3275300
or the fact that they're suppose to be at the continental shelf

>>3275300
>>3275311

There's little indication of where the vents are on the Z axis with relation to the base. And anyway, this is for shits and giggles. Restrain your autism. :3

>>3275285
Olympic sized swimming pool please

>>3275337
>swimming pool
>at the bottom of the ocean

I can't tell if this is genius or imbecilic.

>>3275327
>Restrain your autism.

Only if you explain why there's a submerged semi-trailer on the left hand side.

>>3275324
just a quick update for anyone following the thread
this post >>3275324

is the 52 revision of the scilab

>>3275338

How about a moon pool instead, so the sharks can eat Samuel L Jackson

>>3275340

>>Only if you explain why there's a submerged semi-trailer on the left hand side.

I did, here: >>3274762

>>3275324
>>3275267
>>3275250
>>3275202
Here, I put your precious tree room on top of the restaurant. That way, there will be view obstruction, no traffic moving through the area to get to another part of the lab, and on top of everything else, the tree room now spins!

>>3275275
If that's the case, we're probably best avoiding the USA and Europe with regards to building this somewhere, due to tax purposes and the waters around anywhere that would be useful being swarmed with boats and subs.

Though that has nothing to do with the base at large, probably.

>>3275368
now shits all retarded....
that fireplace was venting to the trees
the weed smoking room/bar/coffeeshop was venting to the trees

it was actually fine till you came and fucked it up bro...

>>3275380

Don't stress it, tree dome stays where it is. Being able to look up and see someone else in another module would be neat. As well as seeing people tending to the weed in the module to the right.

The tunnel branching off the apartment tower still goes nowhere, though. A cafeteria, perhaps? Exercise room?

how much posts till autosage?
we're at 253 posts and 71 images....


also >>3275368 rev 53

>>3275394

Naw, that's not Rev 53. Someone didn't like the tree dome placement but moving it causes too much trouble.

But yeah, is it time for a new thread?

To make it a bit more realistic, I think you could fade the water in the caverns from blue to a slight darker green than what is used for the walls of the caverns. This would give the appearance that you are looking at the wall of the cavern, and that the depth of the cavern is going out of the page, as opposed to into the page at the moment. This would mean that there could be rock behind that wall, and the vents could be possible

Also we need library room
Shelves of books everywhere, and some nice comfy chairs

>>3275406
this one is still bumping....


>Naw, that's not Rev 53.
yesh it is mate, that is how I'm counting....

>>3275380
The placement of most things is generally questionable... probably due to the lack of the Z axis.

Like why the living quarters are almost directly above a hydro thermal vent

Also why the LFTR isn't farther below the base and why it doesn't have a passive storage area isolated from the main reactor area.

And why the submarine bay is almost completely exposed instead of built into the seafloor.

>>3275417
bro, this is a community thing!
you're free to make it if you so choose


>join the fun :D

>>3275423

How about a compromise; A smaller nature dome atop the restaurant where the view is unobstructed...?

Do we have a stem cell farm?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_meat

>>3275437
>And thus began the great oceanic wars of the lay 2050's

>>3275429
I'm going to sleep soon so I'd hoped that someone would add it
I made the two little rec rooms with the blue and red couches if you can see them
You guys better have a new thread in the morningggg

>>3275475

See what? You forgot your image, bro.

>>3275492
i think he means in the previous pics....

>>3275466

>>And thus began the great oceanic wars of the lay 2050's

Never forget.

I'm really bad at drawing but if someone could add a magnets room that'd be wicked. not trolling, that'd be my rec room i love magnets

>>3275550
I don't even know why we have more than one rec room, can't people just entertain themselves in their own rooms?

chanarchive.com/request_votes
#3273737

You all really ought to play Space Station 13.

>>3275611

Oh gosh. :3c

Anyways I'll make a thread sometime tomorrow evening, and we can continue our conquest of the deep.

>>3275627
Jokes on you, I'm already playing it.

And also doing ground work on a nuclear fission reactor for the station that will probably go nowhere. http://tgstation13.servehttp.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5227

I can map it out, and I can research it, but I don't know how to code it.

>>3275627
I could probably have some fun with that... but I'm always too busy cutting and removing all the wires coming from the solar arrays.


No seriously game tries far too hard and it isn't fun when you have to pull up wikipedias to figure out what the basic point of it is.

added a medical area

>>3275629

oh right, chan archive doesn't archive images, does it. Bookmarking in hope I'll have access to a proper computer before 404.

Added onto the bar.

>>3275648

Cool, added. :3

>>3275669

Is that... no.. is that.. a s-strip club?

>>3275672
Oh yeah.

>>3275673

>sea cups

>>3275676
you should be proud of that one

>>3275672
>>3275673

Wait what? Where's the-

>Sea Cups

Well alrighty then.

>>3275683

I am. Good work anon.

>>3275669

Doors were way too big, corrected proportions, and added. Really ornate addition, looks good. Of dubious scientific value, but nobody's likely to complain. :3

If there's anyone who wants the full images I've archived everything up to this post
>>3275676

Using sonar detection equipment, I find anomaly sound waves which our experts determine to resemble, oddly, "snoring." They explain that this can't actually be snoring however, since it's too large of a sound to be coming from any known living organism.

They pinpoint the origin of the sound to be relatively close to our aquatic society, and in fact, under us.

I propose digging to the source, but many disagree and my proposals are rejected repeatedly. While I am resubmitting and resubmitting, a group of curious men like myself begin in secret our project, excavation "snorlax."

The residents are beginning to get suspicious even though we've taken every effort to be clandestine with our dig, but today is the day.We have discovered a large hollow cavity where the source of the sound is coming from.

>>Hundreds of billions spent for sea lab program
>>So far it has one actual laboratory, two weed gardens, a coffee shop and a strip club

>>3275722

#1. Don't dig from the rocket launching chamber. We need that.

#2. That's not a separate chamber he's in, it's the mouth of a cave. The cave just behind him, that you can get to via the branching sea cave network. Only the small submersibles will fit though. Or a guy in a pressure suit if he's feeling brave. :3

>>3275736
I apologize, but since the community kept refusing my proposals to dig in the first place, I had to go from somewhere no one would expect.

The caves are not necessarily stable, digging was a necessary precaution for quality assurance purposes. You can re-route the tunnel to maintain the integrity of our rocket launching area if you'd like, not that our group's actions are out in the open.

I don't think the underwater cave partially filled with water is possible. Once it's been connected to the sea the pressure will flood it, there is all of that water pushing on the entrance to the tunnel.

Or am I wrong? I always confuse my self with fluids.

>>3275750

Just take one of the submersibles.

>>3275758

Nope, the air pressure inside the cave is the same as the water pressure it's exposed to.

Turn a glass upside down and force it down into a sink filled with water. See how the water doesn't rise and fill the glass? Same principle.

>>3275722
The following is an internal memo for use only by Varanus Laboratories. Unauthorized distribution or dissemination of this material is a breach of contract and appropriately punishable.

The digging teams are encountering difficulties with their project. Not only is the habitat's board beginning to ask a lot of questions, residents are starting to get suspicious. Our excavation affiliate is, as yet, unaware of our plans.

The board proposes halting all official excavation and continuing with project:Elder in secret.

The R&D and Legal divisions have been briefed on what is planned and are ready for their tasks. The construction of the Rlyeh facility to house specimen:Cthuhlu is complete. CPU cycles have been purchased in anticipation of proteonomics work associated with the gene sequencing of specimen: Cthulhu. Legal is standing by to patent any and all biotechnologies we can harvest from this operation.

>>3275763

Please continue, I'm bored.

You are now aware that the Neptune Project has done all this already.

http://www.neptunecanada.ca/

Damn, I just added a ton.
I started using the drill that was just sitting there to drill into the precious metal deposit. The metals are carried through the yellow tubes into the maroon collection funnel (where they are inspected by personnel, and then dumped below the ground into the large vault. I didnt put in much detail here in case somebody wants to alter it in the future and maybe turn it into a forge or something.

Also, I finally joined the base to the subs!

someone add a sex dungeon

This thread is still up? AWESOME.

I'm shocked this is still alive.

>Come to /sci/ for the first time in months last night
>See this thread
>Still alive the next day

>>3275698
can you send that my way? check the e-mail field

>implying you noticed

Cool, hasn't 404'd yet.

>>3277173
sure, on the way.

>>3277183
implying i didn't
changed USA to SCI

>>3277209
sure you sent it? not in my inbox or spam

>>3277286
It's showing as just having sent at this end, but I hit the button just before I posted. Guess I have a crappy upload speed. 'twas a 10MB file, so it might take a while to get to you.

We're at 304 posts, wanna start a new thread?

>>3277420
go ahead :D
not sure if Mad Scientist is on at the moment, but he will be later.

>>3277455
I don't really have the time to monitor and keep it going, I just didn't want this one to 404 in a couple hours

>>3277461
it'll be archived by green oval, don't worry.

>>3277472
Ahh good, good