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1265325 No.1265325 [Reply] [Original]

Would an underwater city actually be possible?

>> No.1265330

Theoretically, yes.

>> No.1265334

is not worth

>> No.1265335

possible =/= practical

>> No.1265337

but there is no reason to, except to look sci-fi

>> No.1265343

>>1265325
No, it's just an objectivist/libertarian fantasy.

>> No.1265349

bioshock is way more fiction than science

>> No.1265352

probably easier to maintain than las vegas

>> No.1265361

It would cost way more than is feasable though. I don't think that we could build something as cool as Rapture today, even if every nation in the world teamed up on it. It's just too expensive + a mostly untested field of construction suddenly being tasked with something way beyond the league of what we're sure that we can actually safely build.

Although, it really depends on the depth we're talking about. In a couple hundred feet of water, that actually isn't so impossible.. just impractical. Challenger deep? Currently, astronomically impractical, and likely impossible. That or it wouldn't last long before some mass-implosion catastrophe occurs due to the slightest error in construction; even a single weld out of place could doom the entire city if all the buildings are linked (which they would probably need to be). So yeah pretty much impossible.

>> No.1265369

>>1265361
Someone's looked a bit too deep into things.

>> No.1265459

If I was the richest man in the world I'd build an underwater city.
I'd be the king.

>> No.1265467

wtf i didnt even kill the antagonist did i do something wrong?

>> No.1265477

>>1265467
Kill the little sisters?

>> No.1265480

If we had a material that never corroded + could stand huge amounts of pressure.

>> No.1265481

Yeah, sure, I mean submarines are possible, what's the real difference, beside scale? You could build over9000 submarines and link them with a tube if you really wanted to.

>> No.1265486

(warning spoilers dont look any further)
i saved all little sisters and eleanor fuking saves lamb!!!! lolwut!!!? how do i toast the bitch

>> No.1265492

>>1265486

1. uninstall game
2. forget about it
3. go play something that's actually good
4. ?
5. profit

>> No.1265498

>>1265492
i like i like

>> No.1265499

>>1265492
>MW2 is my favorite game

>> No.1265506

>>1265369
Yet has posted the only few sentences worth reading in this thread. I'd rather see people comment on the topic at hand than on the comments themselves.

>> No.1265507

i am so disappoint with Bioshock 2, the story sunk ammirite?

>> No.1265509

>>1265499

wat...

I don't even know what MW 2 is?
MorroWind is the only thing I can think of, but thats's clearly not it (BTW oblivion sucks ass)

>> No.1265544

It should, given a large enough dome to keep the water out, and a way to transport cargo and air to the surface effectively.

While it may be possible, it may just as well be prohibitively expensive.

>> No.1265547

don't listen to these guys op they're all engineers.

it's possible to build another continent in which ever basin it would fit, on the floor of the ocean or a submersible unit.

also: on tv =/= fiction

>> No.1265558

virtually impossible, the pressure after the twilight zone would quitre literally own the dudes building shit, ergo, very difficult

>> No.1265560

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbBGVAa-j1Y&feature=fvhr

>> No.1265580

>>1265509

Modern warfare 2.
Call of Duty.

>> No.1265669

>>1265580
I got rawkets.

>> No.1265785

why would you want to?
you couldnt even breath

>> No.1265803

Parasites, all of you.

>> No.1265812

>>1265361
Yeah because we would construct it so that the entire city depends on one single welding point....

>> No.1265827

>>1265459
>No gods or kings, only man