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2457364 No.2457364 [Reply] [Original]

If global sea levels are rising, climate change etc, why don't we start building floating sustainable ocean cities?

>> No.2457377

one large hurricane or tsunami and you're gone

>> No.2457386

>why don't we start building floating sustainable ocean cities?
Because the cost/benefit ratio makes the idea fucking retarded.

The IPCC report isn't predicting Waterworld.

>> No.2457390

>>2457364
OK, that shape is fucking stupid.

>> No.2457394

>>2457364
Because if you start down that road you end up living on The Raft from Snow Crash.

Or that floating city the necklace is stored in in "Against A Dark Background".

>> No.2457395

>>2457377
read sustainable

>> No.2457398

Because we don't live in Pokemon world

>> No.2457404

>>2457395
There's that word again. I don't think you know what it means.

>> No.2457405

>>2457386
>Because the cost/benefit ratio makes the idea fucking retarded.
/thread

>> No.2457408

because look at the dutch.

>> No.2457417

There's plenty of land brah. No need to go to the seas.

That's against our evolutionary path too. We came from the seas, we're not going back. When land isn't available, we'll go off-planet.

>> No.2457422

>>2457417
Scientific outposts aside, I think we'll be establishing extraterrestrial colonies about the same time as we have cities in Antarctica. It's much more hospitable than Mars.

>> No.2457448

>>2457422
What would be the point in an extraterrestrial colony other than being a scientific outpost?

>> No.2457452

>>2457417
I know it's not related to what you said exactly but...

>We came from the seas, we're not going back.
You realize dolphins and other marine mammals came back from land to the seas right?

>> No.2457460

Sea levels will not rise more than 30 meters. This whipes out low-lying areas and coastal cities, but it's not like it covers over half of Asia.

>> No.2457462

>>2457448
Solving the eggs-in-a-basket problem, for one. That might be done before it really makes sense cost-wise.

As for actual colonization, looking for adventure and new opportunity - like the settling of the American West? That won't happen until we've done the same to Antarctica.

>> No.2457478

>sustainable
>hippie buzzword
Stopped right there

>> No.2457492
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2457492

>>2457417
>we'll go off-planet.

not even if we 'ran out of room'

building massive skyscraper cities is cheaper than space hovels

>> No.2457496

>>2457478
Nice trollbait. But you're right that it seems like OP doesn't really know what that word means.

>> No.2457506

>>2457452
>dolphins and other marine mammals

they went back, we stayed.

look where they are now. and look where mankind is now.

>> No.2457511

>>2457364

try finding a financial backer...how much will all this cost?