"Do you have a large market for fiction, a way to revive cryonically frozen people, or good human genetic engineering technology?"

"That would be no on the 2 more consequential questions, unfortunately. Although reading alien fiction would be deeply fascinating; personally, I'm feeling like our fiction has been getting just a bit stagnant."

"Well, we have lots of people who love producing fiction. Anything on space travel?"

"Not really. We're constantly speculating about transition to space-based Internet, in particular, but our system of microwave transmitters simply works too well at the moment. And although we love a good challenge, it just felt kind of pointless when the rockets eventually came down again? We've basically put it on hold until we get a good idea for what to do once we're up there."

"Understandable. We might be a little ahead of you on that then, though I expect much of the enthusiasm for space to be drained into enthusiasm for what we can transmit through this cave."

"That was quite the discovery! And who knows. Maybe satellite internet would end up making sense, using your tech."

"It's increasingly popular! I don't know if we ever used microwaves for it. We mostly use those for warming up food."

"Microwave cooking is actually a growing hobby among us! We use tons of accessories that help a microwave replace other cooking equipment. We think it's kind of awesome to work around that particular limitation, actually."

"...I'm again not quite sure what you mean. A lot of Greens like to cook but the microwave is mostly for ingredient prep - melting chocolate, defrosting vegetables - or for bringing something that was already cooked to a pleasant temperature."

"Wouldn't it be extremely limiting to not even have the special microwave browning pan? Like, it'd be pretty impossible to make even something as simple as a pizza without any of the accessories. You can't be doing home cooking by just beaming in thermal energy through a microwave, right?"

"...right, pizzas would be made in ovens."

"An entire oven, in your own house? Isn't that just unnecessary? For those not living in isolated areas, of course. Or people who are really hard-core about home cooking, to be clear!"

"Most houses have ovens in Green. There are SROs that don't, but those would usually have access to a shared oven. But if you're only cooking for one you can also get a small oven that doesn't take up more space than a typical microwave."

"Huh. I've never heard about those microwave-size ovens, sounds like it'd be niche. Or an SRO, actually."

"SROs are living arrangements, most centrally for teenagers and young adults who are having friction with their parents but some other sorts of people also like them, where each occupant gets a bedroom, sometimes an attached bathroom too, and all other features one expects a house to have are shared in common, often supplemented by the management."

"Huh. Maybe it's a thing with us? I've ever heard about someone living in just a bedroom without even an attached bathroom, just because basic income lets you afford to get the bathroom as well."

"Most Green countries haven't been able to implement basic income yet. I think the appeal of not having one's own bathroom would be neither needing to clean it nor have a cleaner come into one's space."

"Maybe a few thomassians also do it like that, then. It seems like an extreme step to take because you don't want to clean your bathroom or have a cleaner enter it, either. But maybe you really dislike cleaning in general?"

"...do a lot of Thomassians like cleaning?"

"They don't despise it enough to avoid having bathrooms in their own homes so that they can avoid it! Saying that, I feel like there's some kind of context there I've managed to miss..."

"- on Green, children are both much less inclined to do chores such as cleaning than adults are, and much more upset about having strangers in their space. While they're little their parents generally override them to have a clean home. But teenagers who move into an SRO often still have both characteristics in force."

"Maybe thomassians don't have particularly strong needs for personal space, then. I think that's were the difference might come from, because thomassian teenagers would just have someone clean things for them and be fine with that."

"There are Green ones like that too but it's not the stereotype."