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This is a part of the personal project I'm working on. A Pail of Air, visualization of an Science Fiction Short story by Fritz Leiber.
Home is where you can sleep without dying. This is where the protagonist's family call home.
The family hangs a pail of liquid oxygen above the fire, so it evaporate and become the precious, breathable O2. The family need to refill the pail with liquid oxygen every once in a while. The oxygen feeds the flame to burn, and the flame heats the pail for oxygen. If one of them run out, it will spell doom for all of them.
In the original short story, the room is concealed, but I figure they will die from carbon monoxide poisoning, so I give them some windows.
The world of A Pail of Air -- Earth had deviated form it original orbit, flying away from it's precious sun. Without the sun, photosynthesis stops, mass panic occur, the apocalypse had come.
Years later, the temperature drops below -200°C. Most part of the world had become nothing but darkness and bitter cold air. With temperature this low, oxygen starts to liquify, the survivors will have to dig up a pail of liquid air, heat it up for them to breath.
The quake destroyed most underground pipelines. With no ionosphere, contacting with radio or any wireless method is impossible. The protagonist and his family lives in a obscured world far away from civilization, yet they strive to survive.
Home is where you can sleep without dying. This is where the protagonist's family call home.
The family hangs a pail of liquid oxygen above the fire, so it evaporate and become the precious, breathable O2. The family need to refill the pail with liquid oxygen every once in a while. The oxygen feeds the flame to burn, and the flame heats the pail for oxygen. If one of them run out, it will spell doom for all of them.
In the original short story, the room is concealed, but I figure they will die from carbon monoxide poisoning, so I give them some windows.
The world of A Pail of Air -- Earth had deviated form it original orbit, flying away from it's precious sun. Without the sun, photosynthesis stops, mass panic occur, the apocalypse had come.
Years later, the temperature drops below -200°C. Most part of the world had become nothing but darkness and bitter cold air. With temperature this low, oxygen starts to liquify, the survivors will have to dig up a pail of liquid air, heat it up for them to breath.
The quake destroyed most underground pipelines. With no ionosphere, contacting with radio or any wireless method is impossible. The protagonist and his family lives in a obscured world far away from civilization, yet they strive to survive.
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Carbon monoxide/dioxide would form solid crystals on the floor at -200C / atmospheric pressure. I'm just trying wrap my brain around the physics involved of this type of world being habitable.
Anyway the title of the story sounds very familiar, I may have run across it in some collected works book in the past but don't remember reading it. Judging by your interpretation it looks interesting even if it is far-fetched.
Anyway the title of the story sounds very familiar, I may have run across it in some collected works book in the past but don't remember reading it. Judging by your interpretation it looks interesting even if it is far-fetched.
There's a really popular way to commit suicide, called Charcoal-burning suicide. I don't know if it's popular outside of Asia, but it's the second most used method in Hong Kong. This way of suiciding requires less courage than jumping off a building, and unlike downing pills, it's often too late to reverse if you regret.
The way this work is, carbon monoxide binds much better with red blood cell, the victim will die from lacking oxygen. The reason of it being so dangerous is that carbon monoxide is scentless, colorless, and extremely poisonous. When you sense something has gone wrong, it's already too late, you will lack even the strength to open the window and save yourself.
The way this work is, carbon monoxide binds much better with red blood cell, the victim will die from lacking oxygen. The reason of it being so dangerous is that carbon monoxide is scentless, colorless, and extremely poisonous. When you sense something has gone wrong, it's already too late, you will lack even the strength to open the window and save yourself.
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