A Big Fluids Thread

[Frank_Stein]

Fluid Absorber: This basically acts as a gas scrubber but it just hoovers fluid up into it or squirts it around a room. The Janitor gets one, and its fluid tanks can be swapped out for differing purposes, from hi-speed cleaning to collecting blood to chicanery. For bonus points this doesn't trigger 'when emptied' reactions, thus making chocolate floods.

One of the things I used as a janitor was riding floor scrubbers and carpet extractors, which not only have a mode that sprays a water cleaning solution onto the floor, but also a mode that sucks up that solution to make the floors dryer.

So, what I think could happen is, add a second extraction tank to the Janitors existing scrubber that lets them absorb liquids off the floor and a method to dump that into containers or over floor drains.

You could probably also just get away with things like towels and absorption powders that pull all the nearby liquids into it and then get a "soiled/damp" adjective when they can't hold anymore

I would be delighted if towels were incorporated into this beautiful fluid dynamics economy.

Shit, could even give us a reason to use the washing machines/dryers as a way to reset towels to a clean, usable state