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The visible cupola of the top part would have a particular function. This would be a "domestic television", which would produce some 3D colour pictures on a semi-spherical screen with very high definition. This habitation would be able to retract itself in a cavity of the floor. The peduncle on which it is fixed looks like our old elevators. The house could also turn on itself. When going into the ground the Ummits would then close their curtains. This retracting allows also to the habitation to escape to hard weather conditions. The rotation would get the sand off the roof of the house, to evacuate all materials brought by the terrible storms of the planet coming from pressure gradients much more important than on Earth. The rooms inside would have no doors. The Ummit would be fundamentally gregarious, would absolutely no suffer of the promiscuity, no more in his habitation that in its vessels where twelve passengers are pressed like pilchards in a can. In the houses, some anti noise devices, which would create some sonic waves in phase opposition with the origin sound. This allows to make the silence in some rooms. In the illustrations one see empty rooms. 118 Fig. 36 : The modern Ummit habitations.