This is a great example of a good use case for 3D printers. The smooth marble run action combined with the interwoven organic forms would be a huge PITA to fabricate with any other method I can think of, even if your just making one.
I know not to hope for it to ever catch on, but my dream date-time format would be:
year/day/hectosecond.second(.millisecond and so on to the desired precision)
The current date-time, to the second, would be 2023/308/342.65
The days, like the years and second-based units, are 0-indexed.
There are 100 seconds in a hectosecond, and normally 864 hectoseconds in a day.
And to go with it, I'd advocate either a "3-on, 2-off", or "6-on, 4-off" work cycle, depending on the nature of the work, or even just personal preference. This way, today(308) would obviously be on a "weekend" either way.
Water mined from the moon might be much cheaper by the time something like this is built. That being said, a giant sterile swimming pool seems like an odd feature for an interplanetary spacecraft. I'd rather see a well-balanced aquatic habitat, if anything.
I like this idea. To take it even further, I propose this wire terminate to a sturdy cylindrical plug which can rotate 360 degrees. Furthermore, if the signal were to be analog, it would allow universal compatibility with all other analog sound devices. I think this could be revolutionary.
Then you just get modern warfare miniaturized. I guess that could be fun to watch if well presented, but I've been thinking it would be cool to just have a bigger, more rugged battlebox that demands more versatile movement, rather then having everyone just trying to hug the metal floor as closely as possible.
I've been using a dongle in my car(an older model with no bluetooth), and it is quickly wearing out my phones usb port. Keeps falling out. The headphone jack was a lot more resilient.