Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Fresh Air and Relaxation on Ship

Many ships in television, movies, and books have an observation room of some sort. The idea is that it is a large room for people who need a break from work to sit and stare out at space for whatever reason. If the room is just an empty space with movable chairs or benches it could be used for ceremonies like reenlistments, changes of command, or government ceremonies at different planets. However, most observation rooms shown have at least some sort of garden in it. The garden not only helps with purifying the oxygen on ship, or creating it in many circumstances, but it also creates a place for people to relax away from the unrelenting gray of metal with softer greens and lovely flowers as well as cleaner oxygen than anywhere else on ship.
Having a garden on ship can provide extra food to the messdecks that is fresh daily or weekly. Fresh fruit or vegetables provide nutrients that may not be easily reproduced by replicators or whatever food your ship serves. One problem that having your vegetable and fruit garden in a public location like the observation room is that some people will always be picking it early or moving plants into their quarters to get better food and many in the crew will never get fresh produce. A good idea may be to create a room somewhere that is a hydroponics garden. The room would be secured so only a few people could take care of the garden. If the hydroponics garden is some distance away from the flower garden in the observation room, then the ventilation system wouldn’t have to work so hard to purify the air.

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