LBB low berths are, by our standards, insanely hazardous because they're
based explicitly on a book where they were, including the part where
people would actually gamble on how many would die in transit.  It's a
bit of "life is cheap" values dissonance that doesn't really mesh well
with our pampered, first world, late-20th/early-21st notions.

The OTU is a weird mishmash of high-tech tools and capabilities and
low-tech ideas and sensibilities.

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Kelly St. Clair
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