Perceptual violence

>>> As all of those folk would be presented with similar slopes every day it

>>> would not take long for real mental irritation to build up.

>>No, just mental adaptation.

>>> Given time, this would lead to bloodshed without proper reason.

>>Ridiculous. Colorblindness is a *real* perceptual difference that
(Thx; I wouldn't want perception of spelling to force bloodletting.)
>>does not require violence. Difficulty-of-slope is just an
>>interpretation.

>In many cases perceptions, unless very carefully gauged and allowed for in
the design,
>will become ingrained, and whenever this causes a growing dichotomy of
viewpoint,
>strife will be inevitable

I know someone who is so heavy she thinks she must *drive* to cross
the street. I guess I must have killed her the last time we met.
My cousin is colorblind and complained about not being able to see
some of the pictures on my web page. I guess he beat me up the
last time I saw him, although I don't remember any bruises.

>I particularly appreciated one comment to the effect that the idea that
>dichotomy could lead to bloodshed was "ridiculous". I guess I must have
>imagined both the World Trade Center and the bombs on Afghanistan.

So they bombed us because the towers were sloped too vertically,
and we bombed them because Afghanistan's land was not sloped enough?
Perceptual differences do not cause violence (maybe vertigo, if you
stand too quickly under rotation and feel the Coriolus force--you
will adapt by learning to stand slower).

It requires a *moral* dichotomy to create a viewpoint so strong
it cannot be discussed reasonably. Anyone who thinks human life
is worthless unless it serves one particular view of God should
be forced into the nearest airlock.

Buildings have all kinds of shapes and colors. The questions we
should be discussing are which shapes work best in space and
how can we start getting them built. Some buildings are unhealthy
because of air quality. We need a big enough habitat so that most
of the volume has plants to recycle the air people (and animals)
breathe. A sphere wastes too much surface with highly-angled or
low-gravity areas. The most practical shapes would be toroidal
(with a squarish cross section which is the same as:) or cylidrical,
with a large diameter to minimize the rotation rate.

Yours, Arlin