/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11207632
>I’d rather turn earth into an ecumenopolis
As cool as they are, they're very impractical.
Caves of steel megacities/archologies on the other hand.
Also if you're just going to live in hives, might as well dig into continental shields and on the ocean floor.

>>10716511
I remember some anon once autistically calculating what the minimum population would be for an Ecumenopolis world like coruscant and the low end is a couple hundred billion using current population densities.
When you have buildings that are miles tall it starts to skyrocket.
You'd actually start running into problems like how you dump the waste heat of all those people crammed together.
You would also begin drowning in an ocean of shit and piss before too long because what are you supposed to do with it all?

>>10258124
Depends what you're going to be feeding them. You need resources from the rest of your world to keep your archologies from eating themselves alive.
Not without a star trek tier technology or two.