Oh great. Now I have to play Minecraft again.
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“…the team will move forward with producing a prototype of the scheme, with ambitions to launch it on New York’s East River.” -Dezeen
A true test for surviving in green water and Dorito bags.
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“Hyeugh, hyeugh!”
_____________Pig Bodine
He drank his pee!
“Hyeugh, hyeugh!”
_____________Pig Bodine
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… is people!
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It’s striking how little thought these plans give to security. When these floating utopias get up and going and are scattered all over the place, it’s going to take a lot of effort to keep them from becoming the targets of pirates, who are not nearly as nice in real life as Princess Bride might have you believe.
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My first thought as well, lol. Welcome to Waterworld!
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Much better idea. Andrew Ryan approves!
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Aim higher. Buckminster Fuller proposed flying cities.
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On the caramel.
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So they’re proposing Aquarius from The Millennial Project? I read this book several years ago and some of what it described sounded interesting and plausible.
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Solar desalinization and water recycling? And the poop can be composted until it’s safe to put back in the sea - the sea is full of animal poop now, which doesn’t seem to harm the animals living in the sea. And since the water reclaimed from salt water would eventually go back into the sea, there would be no net increase in salinity.
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It’s a closed system - water taken from the sea and desalinated would eventually go back to the sea and be salted again. Joined by the rainwater captured by the city. So there’s no excess sea salt.
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boat: /bōt/
noun
- A hole in the water that you throw money into.
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And ton’t even get me started on the Terran Trade Authority. This future we got is fucking shit, i tell you what.
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You’ve clearly never been to the Lake District then.
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It’s a really neat thing a floating city, but if you start to ask yourself why you should making one…
As climate change advances at an alarming rate and huge numbers of people cram into city slums, “floating cities is one of the possible solutions”
This argument is weird, because it’s certainly cheaper and easier to relocate people on land or develop the already exiting slum into a proper city.
It’s the only argument in this article I think ?
I can came up with few other reasons, the main one being outside of the political influence of other nations, but most islands are really dependant of continents for food and supplies, even power and communication. So you may end up more dependant of a superpower on an artificial island than if you are an actual citizen of the said superpower.
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Can we please clean the Oceans before we pollute them with more human[s] waste.
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Ever notice how Peter Thiel is like a realistic version of a comic book supervillain? No joke – it’s spooky.
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