Probably to make sure the customers know that they mean it. There are often a lot of people coming in one minute before closing time that don’t leave in time.
From the makers of FreedomFries and FreedomUnits, it’s FreedomTime! No more worrying about numbers bigger than 12, just stop halfway through the day and start over. For Freedom!
Just to be “that guy” and in case anyone thought you were serious, they’re called French fries because the potatoes are Frenched (which is the style of cut, eg into sticks), also called Julienned.
In grade school I put my watch on “military time” because I thought it was cool. As an adult I have my phone on 24 hour time because sometimes you leave the blackout curtains closed and aren’t sure which 3 o’clock it is when you wake up.
I did not expect to see that referenced today. It seems like pretty obscure old sci-fi to me, but I guess I found it once somehow.
I should do napkin calculations on how many blankets they’d actually need to get an airtight-ish space at breathable pressure.
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Honestly just an airlock shouldn’t have been too hard, seeing as leaking atmosphere was no issue. Seal it up, crack a little valve on the side you’re going towards. Every blanket scheme I can think of is just a shittier version of that.
Just as a sealant for structural gaps I imagine blankets would be impermeable with a bit of coal tar added, but maybe I can do some math for unimproved blankets.
The story actually specifies 30 blankets, on a double-check. There’s science now known to be bad elsewhere, but it’s all excusable considering when the story was written. Ditto for the weird gender dynamics.
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