Lack of denim in the future
POSTED BY: blackbeanie
UPDATED: Saturday, October 27, 2007 13:20
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S&H is how I got my hola-hoop. Now I am aging myself again.
It seems every time I get on one of these threads I leak out something from my past that dates me to the horse and buggy.
Gotta go. My platinum pants are chaffing me.
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler
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Perhaps the characters we prefer to see choose to shun the denim of blue while in the shadow of BLUE Sun.
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It's not the cotton. It's the indigo.
Cotton grows fine on terraformed planets. Indigo seed, however, suffered radiation damage during the voyage from Earth-that-was, and never grew properly in the new system.
While you might think that the transplanted Terrans could simply have used petrochemical dyes to replace the indigo, you'd be wrong. The new system's planets have no native life, so therefore they have no petroleum. Many materials we currently take for granted -- such as plastics, chemical fertilizers, and dyes -- are rare and expensive in the 'verse. They've been replaced by natural materials like metals, leather, and mud.
Mr. Universe could only afford blue-colored trousers because he was the ultimate hacker. Hey, when you can appropriate an entire planetoid, a couple pairs of blue jeans are a breeze.
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I'm pointin' right at it!
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