Float of Fancy
Oct. 25th, 2009 08:07 pmMSN had this article about how these floating cities could be the solution to forced adaptation to rising sea-levels as a consequence of climate change:
I think they're pretty, certainly, although oddly they put me more in mind of the Arcologies of Old Earth rather than Pernik et al of Atlantis. If that sentence made no sense whatsoever, get thee to thy Peter F Hamilton pronto (Night's Dawn Trilogy).
Getting back to the floating metropli, though, it's all sadly impractical: the cities themselves are each designed to accommodate 50,000 people. The resource cost of construction looks as though it would be massive, which suggests that these floating conurbations are probably going to end up as pseudo-gated communities for the super-wealthy. That said, I'd be tempted.
For a slightly more realistic accommodation scenario, here's Tetris being played with Berlin apartment blocks.
In other news, I've finished S1 of True Blood.( True Blood S1 )
I think they're pretty, certainly, although oddly they put me more in mind of the Arcologies of Old Earth rather than Pernik et al of Atlantis. If that sentence made no sense whatsoever, get thee to thy Peter F Hamilton pronto (Night's Dawn Trilogy).
Getting back to the floating metropli, though, it's all sadly impractical: the cities themselves are each designed to accommodate 50,000 people. The resource cost of construction looks as though it would be massive, which suggests that these floating conurbations are probably going to end up as pseudo-gated communities for the super-wealthy. That said, I'd be tempted.
For a slightly more realistic accommodation scenario, here's Tetris being played with Berlin apartment blocks.
In other news, I've finished S1 of True Blood.( True Blood S1 )
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