{"group":"life","pic":"living/pics/weekends-city.webp","question":"What does the city do on its days off?","answer":"It meets in the Commons: a great hall under the plain with a cafe, music, one long table for everyone and real daylight pouring down from above. Every week has two rest days, and every day here runs {cm_sol_min} minutes longer than at home.","play":{"label":"Sit at the cafe on your square","href":"play/?at=62,-140,0,0.22,12&era=city&light=day"},"voice":{"title":"Out here, a voice carries {carry_m} m","line":"Sound needs air to travel. Tap a world and watch how far a shout gets.","earth":"On Earth","mars":"On the plain","hall":"In the Commons","earth_text":"A shout carries about {carry_earth} m across an open square.","mars_text":"In air this thin a shout fades after about {carry_m} m, so outside everyone talks by radio.","hall_text":"Inside, the hall holds the city's own air, so music, laughter and a whole room singing sound just as they do at home.","scale":"Circles to scale"},"hall_title":"One hall for everything","hall":[{"icon":"cup","title":"The cafe","text":"Coffee, warm bread and fruit picked in the farm halls that morning, at little round tables."},{"icon":"people","title":"The long table","text":"One table down the middle of the hall, long enough for half the street to eat together."},{"icon":"sun","title":"Daylight from above","text":"Skylight wells pour real Martian daylight onto the floor, and the lamps take over at dusk."},{"icon":"target","title":"The stage and the town meeting","text":"Music on rest days. On meeting days the chairs turn to face it, and every adult has a vote from the day they land."}],"week":{"title":"A longer week","line":"Seven sols run {cm_week_h} hours longer than seven Earth days, and two of them are rest sols: {cm_rest_h} hours off, every week.","earth":"Earth week","mars":"Mars week","rest":"Rest days","extra":"Extra time","hours":"hours"},"orbit":{"title":"A year twice as long","line":"Mars takes {cm_year_x} Earth years to go once round the Sun, so Landing Day, the city's birthday, comes round every {cm_year_x} years, with {fest_lo} to {fest_hi} festival sols in every Mars year.","earth":"Earth","mars":"Mars","landing":"Landing Day","sun":"Sun","scale":"Orbits drawn to scale"},"earth_mars":{"earth":{"head":"Life spills outdoors"},"mars":{"head":"Life gathers indoors"},"pics":{"earth":"living/pics/em-commons-earth.webp","mars":"living/pics/em-commons-mars.webp"},"rows":[{"label":"A day","icon":"sun","earth":"24 hours from one sunrise to the next.","mars":"24 hours and {cm_sol_min} minutes, so every day ends a little later."},{"label":"Out in the open","icon":"air","earth":"Air to breathe, and a shout carries about {carry_earth} m.","mars":"Air {air_pct}% as thick as Earth's: a shout fades after {carry_m} m."},{"label":"The year","icon":"globe","earth":"{earth_year_d} days round the Sun.","mars":"{mars_year_d} Earth days, so a year here is nearly two of yours."}]},"pin":[0.53,0.7],"scene":{"pic":"living/pics/scene-commons.webp","look":"04-02-01","shot":"rest_sol","focus":"50% 50%","spots":[{"at":[0.08,0.66]},{"at":[0.52,0.64]},{"at":[0.235,0.3]},{"at":[0.51,0.42]}]},"proof":{"pic":"living/people/commons-proof.webp","place":"Glarus, Switzerland","when":"Every spring","head":"A whole canton votes by hand","credit":"Photo: Kanton Glarus, Samuel Trümpy Photography (CC BY 2.0)"},"fact":"In Glarus, Switzerland, the voters still meet in the open air in the town square and decide their laws by raising their voting cards for all to see. In 2001, {cm_ld_record}% of them came.","quiz":[{"q":"How much longer is a day on Mars than on Earth?","a":["About {cm_sol_min} minutes","Exactly the same","About two hours"],"why":"A sol lasts 24 hours and {cm_sol_min} minutes, so every week runs {cm_week_h} hours longer.","more":"Revolutionary France once tried a {cm_fr_week}-day week, with one rest day in ten. Napoleon scrapped it after about {cm_fr_years} years.","cite":"02-01 F-17, 04-03-01 F-12","from":"problem","fig":0,"icon":"sun"},{"q":"Who gets a vote at Arcadia's town meeting?","a":["Every adult, from the day they land","Only the council","Only people born on Mars"],"why":"Every adult living on Mars votes from the day they land, whatever their nationality and however long they plan to stay.","more":"Iceland's settlers founded the Althing in {cm_is_althing}. It calls itself the oldest parliament in the world.","cite":"04-02-01 CR-06, F-33","from":"fix","fig":0,"icon":"people"},{"q":"How many rest sols does every week in Arcadia City have?","a":["Two","One","Three"],"why":"Two of every seven sols are rest sols, shared by everyone except the people on watch.","more":"From {cm_sov_start} the Soviet Union tried a {cm_sov_week}-day week where everyone had a different day off, so friends and families often never rested together.","cite":"04-03-01 CF-05, F-13","from":"why","fig":0,"icon":"bar"}],"notes":[{"beat":"fix","text":"Tristan da Cunha, six days by sea from Cape Town, runs itself with an Island Council of {cm_tr_el} elected members for its {cm_tr_pop} people.","cite":"04-02-01 F-08"}],"everyday":{"title":"A rest sol","items":[{"time":"08:30","head":"No alarm today","text":"A slow start: warm bread at the cafe while the skylights brighten overhead.","tag":"{cm_rest} rest sols a week","pic":"living/pics/scene-commons.webp","pos":"8% 60%"},{"time":"14:00","head":"Music in the hall","text":"Someone tunes a guitar on the stage, and the long table fills up for the afternoon.","tag":"{cm_sol_min} extra minutes every day","pic":"living/pics/scene-commons.webp","pos":"52% 40%"},{"time":"19:30","head":"Everyone at one table","text":"Supper together under strings of warm lamps, children racing between the chairs.","tag":"{fest_lo} to {fest_hi} festival sols a year","pic":"living/pics/weekends-city.webp","pos":"60% 60%"}]},"living":"Rest sols here begin slowly. You wander down to the Commons for bread still warm from the oven, find friends at the long table and stay for the music. On festival sols the lamps turn gold, the whole town eats together, and Landing Day feels like everyone's birthday at once.","from":"From the Commons","later":{"pics":{"city":"living/pics/weekends-city.webp","far":"living/pics/weekends-far.webp"},"city":{"tag":"The Commons","text":"A great hall under the plain: cafe, music, the long table and the town meeting."},"far":{"tag":"Under glass","text":"The hall opens onto a water-roofed dome with trees, and the biggest dome is a park with a lake."}}}