RECORDS OF THE TRAVELER
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▍BLANK SPACE宣布了第一届“外太空”比赛的获奖者。在来自40多个国家的投稿中，这些获奖作品通过详细的故事和艺术作品探索了未来可能性和技术突破。
获奖者由15名领先的建筑师、设计师和技术专家组成的评审团选出，其中包括克里斯·哈德菲尔德“Chris Hadfield“、埃杜阿多·特雷索尔迪“Eduardo Tresoldi“、大卫·本杰明“David Benjamin“、克里斯·普雷赫特“Chris Precht“和萨布丽娜·汤普森“Sabrina Thompson“。宇航员克里斯·哈德菲尔德在比赛结果中说道：
“只有通过我们的想象力，我们才能创造变革。未来幻想的科幻成为了今天被接受的现实，从而成为我们站立的历史基石。恭喜所有创意贡献者，你们拓展了我们的思维！”
评审团选择了三名获奖者和12名荣誉提名：
第一名由Charisse Foo获得，作品名为《劳动纪念碑》。Charisse毕业于康奈尔大学建筑学学士，并在纽约市担任CGI设计师。这个提案探索了一个由被囚禁的劳工复兴的半成品和废弃的太空结构的广泛网络。
“毫无感情地叙述，《劳动纪念碑》想象了一个已经被翻译成历史的未来。在这个先驱叙事的重塑中，太空的第一批定居者不仅是勇敢的探险家，还是被判有罪的罪犯。围绕异化和否认他人人性的含义，这个故事同时记录了一座建筑的寿命：卫星、监狱、实验室、工厂、城镇、坟墓、广告牌、景点和象征。这两种叙事将梦想的特权与实验的成本联系在一起。外太空的乌托邦可能性，伟大的未知，不仅是特权阶层的幻想，也是边缘化群体的绝望希望。” -Charisse Foo
第二名由西班牙阿利坎特的年轻建筑师Alberto Carbonell Crespí获得，作品名为《蒲公英的记忆》。这个故事提出了一种用巨大的充满水、空气和种子的闪闪发光的气球来改造火星的方法，以使贫瘠的表面变得肥沃，并让人类第一次不穿太空服登上表面。
“‘蒲公英的记忆’聚焦于某人“生活在待机中”的边缘时刻，悬浮在真空中。外太空对我们对时间微小的概念产生压倒性的影响，最终，命运如何可以将我们推向意想不到的开始。” -Alberto Carbonell Crespí
第三名由Schüco的Virtual Construction Lab获得，作品名为《Planctae》。Schüco的Virtual Construction Lab是一个位于纽约市的多学科办公室，专门设计和可视化复杂的幕墙系统。《Planctae》构想了一个深空旅行者的网络，他们正在创建一个分散式的量子中继网络，研究外太空并尽可能留下最小的足迹。
“‘Planctae’受到了人类精神固有美德和虚拟连接的技术潜力的启发，将其建筑技术聚焦在增强的宇航员需求上，这是一项前往深空的单程任务。虽然先进的人工智能处理着无意识的船上职责，但飞行员通过科学和艺术手段解释收集的数据，虚拟地与其他人分享他们的发现，尽管船舶之间的距离很大。虚拟沉浸永远无法完全取代身体的接近，甚至在经过时间的特殊训练飞行员身上也会造成代价，但是对发现的追求胜过殖民，使他们充满了英雄主义的乐观，将他们与地球联系在一起，他们冒险进入新的地平线。” -Schüco的Virtual Construction Lab
评审团为以下12位荣誉提名者颁发了荣誉奖：Eric & Eva de Broche des Combes、Ioanna Sotiriou、Original Elephant、Korina Filoxenidou和Mariza Tsakona、Madina Zhazylbekova、FLUX.REAL、Alexander Mills和Danielle Fountain、Linus Cheng、Kat Choate和Stephen Smolko II、Nicholas Houser和Gabriel Esquivel、Dana Salama、Zhuoneng Wang和Wai Ching Cheng。
项目名称：RECORDS OF THE TRAVELER 设计者：Kat Choate and Stephen Smolko II
旅行者00000000000[1]的证言日志 | 发布日期[2] 2165.05.12
日志01 | -01/03:45:23 MET 我在想我会不会感到无聊。我的意思是，我知道这是太空——我离那种驱使我的祖先进行宏伟旅程以在新的遥远土地上定居的冒险只有一天的路程——但我无法摆脱这一切可能非常无聊的感觉。 从一岸到另一岸的几个月的船程肯定令人无聊。他们是如何说服自己去做的呢？我想他们的处境使得迁移变得不可避免。饥荒、战争、压迫——当事情变得无法忍受时，做出这个决定要容易得多。 但我为什么要去呢？我在这里有一个完全可以忍受的生活。当然，待在外面的时间变得更加困难，每个星期三在市场上为新鲜农产品争吵并不是我最喜欢的消遣。当然了，3C公寓的那个家伙有点讨厌。但这一切都不是特别糟糕的。与那些祖先相比，我几乎就像是某种神一样地生活着。所以，为什么要放弃它，去住在一堆罐头里呢？ [...] 我在收到邀请时抛掷了一枚硬币。正面，我就去；反面，我就留下。结果是反面。我对这个结果并不满意。所以在这里，我正准备过着拓荒者的生活——太空拓荒者听起来很不错。尽管这并不会变得更容易。没有了远足。再也没有懒懒地睡觉。这将会很艰难。 [...] 但是拒绝更艰难。
日志02 | +05/14:08:26 MET [机械嗡嗡声] 在申请殖民地职位的前一年，我参观了EOS[3]。那是一个短暂的旅行——零重力的长周末，然后回到平常的生活。很多人都参加过这次度假，但对我来说，那是我一生中最令人难以置信的经历。漂浮在花园中，四面环绕着基因改造生命的翠绿景观；这让我相信在这个虚空中我们有一个位置。这就是我决定加入这次任务的原因。 然而，深空旅行却是另一回事。 [...] 公道地说，很难让一次长途汽车旅行变得愉快。而这次行星间的转移[4]基本上就是一次非常漫长的汽车旅行。一次前往新家，经过不同天空的多年单程汽车旅行。就像穿越中内布拉斯加州，只不过玉米更少，而“什么”更多。
拖船[5]的帆中充满了激光，为我们进行了所有的航向修正。船上的小气动装置和藻类反应器都是全自动的。技术确实在做所有的工作，而我们只是来凑热闹的。没有什么可以看的，没有什么可以做的。
[1] 姓名：00000 0000000000 | 年龄：29 | 职业：GE | 目的地：泰坦站 [2] 根据太空公司任务AI提供的自动注释发布的转录。 [3] 地球轨道站“EOS“ | 由太空公司拥有和运营的花穗式微重力度假胜地。以希腊泰坦女神黎明女神Eos命名。于2160.05.03首次开放。 [4] 地球-土星连续加速传输“E-SCAT“ | 激光帆拖船进行的为期两年的旅程，将船员和货物从低地球轨道“LEO“运送到泰坦。 [5] 拖船 | 太空公司用于E-SCAT航行的菲翁级激光推进帆船的通用名称。
电影和关于站点[1]园艺部门的报告只能让我保持理智那么长时间。船上有一个据说是“先进”的虚拟现实系统，但老实说，虚拟现实对我来说一直是一种反乌托邦的噩梦，所以我不确定它会有多大帮助。当然了，他们为我们每个人酿制了一款鸡尾酒[2]，但我们预计还要几个月才能开始使用它。 在那之前…
日志03 | +742/08:13:26 MET | 12.03.02 SAT-T[3] 好吧，我不得不承认——虚拟现实使过去的两年变得更加可忍受。只要能感觉自己能够移动超过十五英尺而不会撞到墙上，那绝对是一种享受。只要我不动得太多，妳知道，撞到墙上。我没有经历太多晕动病的情况——我被告知这使我成为了幸运的少数人——但东西的移动方式可能有点令人不适。我在公共区域浪费了很多时间，只是把东西扔到空中，看着它们落在我身后。我想知道我要多久才能适应。
日志04 | 12.08.13 SAT-T 明天，我将开始在泰坦的表面上执行我的第一个合同。我被分配到一个资源勘探团队，因为异生物学部门没有取得任何重大突破，并且在可预见的未来不会被授予任何独家任务。但嘿，我还是可以坐在其中一个气球[5]里旁观。 站点上流传着一个故事。一个人——最早的机组成员之一——去了地表上的一个早期合同，至今还没有上来过。一个殖民者选择在地表上延长停留时间并不是不正常的，但这个家伙，游牧人，据说已经在那里待了好几年。我几乎可以肯定这只是人们为了吓唬新人而讲的故事。只是民间传说。尽管如此，它使我停下了脚步。 这个世界是美丽的，充满了奇迹。但我们是微小而脆弱的。我们已经建造了复杂的机器，试图在我们不确定生命是否适合存在的地方维持生命。虽然我被渴望在这一努力中发挥作用的愿望驱使，但我不会否认我仍然害怕。太空中的生活是可怕的，它可能会打破妳、我或游牧人。 但我们还是要去尝试。
TESTIMONIAL LOG OF TRAVELER 00000000000[1] | FOR RELEASE[2] 2165.05.12
Log 01 | -01/03:45:23 MET I wonder if I’ll be bored. I mean, I get that it’s space — and that I’m about a day away from the sort of adventure that drove my ancestors on a grand journey to settle new and distant lands — but I can’t escape the feeling that this all may be very boring. It must have been mind-numbing, the months-long boat ride from one shore to another. How did they ever convince themselves to do it? I suppose their circumstances made the move inevitable. Famine, war, oppression — when things get unbearable, it’s a much easier decision to make. But why am I going? I have an entirely bearable life here. Sure, it’s gotten harder to spend too much time outside, and fighting over fresh produce in the market every Wednesday isn’t my favorite pastime. And sure, the guy in apartment 3C is a bit of a dick. But none of that is particularly bad. Compared to those ancestors, I’m practically living like some sort of god. So, why give it up to live in an assortment of tin cans? […] I flipped a coin when I got the offer. Heads, I would go; tails, I would stay. It landed tails. And I wasn’t happy with that outcome. So here I am, preparing for the life of a pioneer — space pioneer has a nice ring to it. It doesn’t make it easier, though. No more hikes. No more sleeping in. It’s going to be hard. […] But it was harder to say no.
Log 02 | +05/14:08:26 MET [MECHANICAL HUMS] I visited EOS[3] the year before I applied for a colony position. It was a short trip — a long weekend in zero-g and then back to life as usual. It’s a vacation plenty of people have been on, and it was the most incredible experience of my life. Floating in The Garden, surrounded on all sides by verdant displays of genetically-altered life; it’s what convinced me that we have a place out here in the void. It’s why I decided to join this mission. Deep space voyages, however, are a different matter. […] To be fair, it’s nearly impossible to make a long car trip enjoyable. And this interplanetary transfer[4] is basically a really long car trip. A multi-year, one-way car trip to a new home above a different sky. Like driving through Central Nebraska, but with less corn, and more… well, nothing.
The lasers filling the tug’s[5] sail do all of the course correction for us. The small aeroponic rig and algae reactor on the ship are fully automated. The technology really does all the work, and we’re just along for the ride. Nothing to see, nothing to do.
[1] Name: 00000 0000000000 | Age: 29 | Occupation: GE | Destination: Station, Titan [2] Release transcripts provided with automated annotations courtesy of Space Corp. mission AI. [3] EARTH ORBIT STATION (EOS) | Spadix-style microgravity resort owned and operated by Space Corp. Named for the Greek Titan Eos, goddess of the dawn. First opened 2160.05.03. [4] EARTH-SATURN CONTINUOUS ACCELERATION TRANSFER (E-SCAT) | The two-year journey made by laser sail tugs to carry crew and cargo between Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Titan. [5] TUG | Common name for the Phainon class of laser-propelled sailcraft employed by Space Corp. for E-SCAT voyages. Movies and reports on the Station’s[1] horticulture division are only going to keep me sane for so long. There’s a supposedly “state-of-the-art” virtual reality system on board, but, to be honest, VR has always been a bit of a dystopian nightmare to me, so I’m not sure it will be much help. And, of course, there’s the cocktail[2] they brewed up for each of us, but we’re not supposed to start taking that for a few more months. Until then…
Log 03 | +742/08:13:26 MET | 12.03.02 SAT-T[3] Okay, I have to admit — VR made the last two years much more bearable. Just being able to feel like I could move more than fifteen feet without hitting a wall was an absolute pleasure. Provided I didn’t move too much and, you know, hit a wall. I didn’t see the point when there was a State Park a short train ride away from my apartment, but out here, it’s the closest I can get to time off. […] Today, I finally get to move out of quarantine and into my own room in the Station. I’ve been assigned to the unit working on editing fish genomes to help them adapt to low-g environments. Genetic engineering on this scale is still restricted back home — or rather, on Earth, I guess — but the UN relaxed the rules for us here, with the expectation that any scientific progress will benefit humanity generally, and any risk is isolated to around a hundred people a billion kilometers away. The artificial gravity[4] is weird. I haven’t experienced much motion sickness — which makes me a lucky minority, I’m told — but the way things move can be a little jarring. I spent an embarrassing amount of time in the Commons just tossing things in the air and watching them land behind me. I wonder how long it’ll take for me to adjust.
Log 04 | 12.08.13 SAT-T Tomorrow, I start my first contract on Titan’s surface. I’ve been assigned to a resource prospecting team, because the xenobiology division hasn’t had any major breakthroughs and isn’t being granted any exclusive missions for the foreseeable future. But hey, I still get to ride along in one of the balloons.[5] There’s this story that gets passed around on the Station. A guy — one of the first crewmembers to make it out here — who went to the surface on an early contract and still hasn’t come up. It’s not abnormal for a colonist to elect an extended stay on the surface, but this guy, the Nomad, has supposedly been down there for years. I’m almost certain it’s just a story people tell to scare the new people. Just folklore. Still, it gives me pause. This world is beautiful, and full of wonders. But we are small and fragile. We’ve built sophisticated machines to try and sustain life in places we’re not sure it’s meant to be. And while I’m driven by a desire to having use in that endeavor, I won’t deny that I’m still scared. Life in space is scary, and it can break you, or me, or the Nomad. But we’re going to have to try anyway.
[1] TITAN STATION | The first permanent human outpost established beyond Earth orbit. Established in Titan orbit in 2153. [2] THE COCKTAIL | A combination of dopamine reuptake inhibitors (DRIs) and multivitamins designed to help Travelers cope with Long-Mission Mood Disorder (LMMD) [3] SATURN STANDARD TIME (SAT-T) | [4] Long-term habitation of Titan Station is enabled by rotational artificial gravity. [5] BALLOON | Colloquial term for the powered dirigibles used by Space Corp. colonists for Titan surface mobility.