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*** Hmm.. [[Dentaku|I]] would certainly want to be her wife--if Akari wouldn't get to me first ;)

* So, the gnomes regulate Mars' gravitational field by having a lot of very dense pebbles circulate around the core of the planet at insanely high speeds, thus increasing the mass of the pebbles up to ridiculous levels. But where the heck do they get the energy to do that, especially in a low-tech setting such as Aqua? And also, you most definitely don't want to control pebbles moving at that kind of velocities with some kind of organ - I can deal with huge immortal cats every day, but that is just too strange for me.

*** Well, for the holographic thing in shuttle can be considered as [[wikipedia:Active camouflage|active camouflage]], just more advanced version.

* How long does it take to become a Prima anyway? All the girls have to do is row (which should at most take a few months to learn) and remember data about the sights.

** Looks like it depends on instructors and how well did the trainees do on exam, so probably no fixed schedule. Also, other than that, there's also guide training, it seems, so it's also about personality training so that they will have good communication skills. If you want [[Onyhow|my]] opinion, the job of Undine is more like combination of tour guide and Miss Universe; you know, about their outward behavior, skill, all those combinations. If you consider that being Undine is quite a prestigious position in the city (and it shows a few times that they are probably Neo-Venezia's icon) it wouldn't be surprising that it's not easy (and going to take a while) to become Prima.

** Learning to row a gondolier doesn't take a long time, but learning to row it gracefully like the Primas do isn't easy. It's a bit like dancing. Sure, you can learn to dance through taking a three-month course or something, but to dance like a professional dancer, 5-10 years of practice aren't that uncommon. From what I've seen in ARIA, rowing is almost an art, and so it probably takes a bit of time to reach good form. There is also the canzone thing, which apparently is a requirement as well. They also demand from primas top-notch communication skills and behaviour. If it's just normal tour guiding, a single can do it well enough, and it obviously doesn't take long to be a single. Being a prima is seen on Neo-Venice as nearly being perfect in form, and they are supposed to be the icons of Neo-Venezia. I'm not surprised if the whole process takes 3 or more years.

* If the goal of rebuilding old Earth's cities on Mars is to conserve cultural heritage, why does Neo-Venezia differ so much from IRL Venice? It looks like the had the buildings, they restored them and placed them as they wanted to (and probably adding many new ones in the middle). The sea around the city doesn't look like the lagoon either, probably even less (Caribbean-like islands at some hours of rowing distance?). Not that result isn't pretty and probably prettier than the real thing, but it kinda misses the point.

** Probably because IRL Venice is gone due to catastrophe and has been for a couple centuries. They have some (low-tech) photographs and maps, but that's all. Maybe they didn't want to modify the layout of the land they put it on too much, so the recreation wouldn't ''quite'' be the same.

* In the episode with the "natural hot spring" on Aqua (let's ignore this a few scientists still argue that Mars is perhaps [[Not Quite Dead|Not Quite Geologically Dead]]), they go out bathing in the moonlight. Now, which ''round'' moon is that casting so much light? Certainly not Phobos or Deimos.

 

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