| tomcat 2006-09-17, 9:25 am |
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Warm Worm wrote:
> "tomcat" wrote
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> I wonder what the effects would be for the surrounding countryside-- ie, Do
> bigger vacuums suck more up and roll over more things?-- and what "the need
> for" yet more Superbuildings (SB's) would be. Would we eventually have
> SB-sprawl? What about the effects of over-tourism?
>
> In other similar words; would SB's, failing other checks and balances,
> merely postpone the inevitable?
To some extent the Super Buildings would be postponing the inevitable.
But they would postpone the inevitable for roughly a century. Given a
century of technological advance and overpopulation may no longer be
any kind of a problem.
It is possible that a century into the future that space travel will be
as common place as cars and buses are today. If you don't like the
over crowded Earth just pack up and leave. Find some lonely asteroid
where you can use robots to construct a nice home with large lexan
windows looking out on the Universe.
But we have to survive a century to have that capability. Another
possibility is that 'shrink rays' might make us so small that trillions
upon trillions of humans could fit on Hawaii and leave lots of room for
the woods, grass, and beaches.
Or, possibly, we might simply bore down into the ground so that
trillions of people could live comfortably underground and have the
ability to visit the Earth's natural forested surface.
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> It would seem so... I also noticed less female kids per family than male,
> which may be one consequence of BC.
> Unpredictable consequences happen, and apparently happen more unpredictably
> at greater complexities and scales-- leading to potential runaway effects
> and catastrophy.
>
> Another thing that comes to mind when pondering SB's is epidemiology.
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> I think it is more of a treatment than a solution.
Yes, it is -- as I have explained above -- but a treatment is better
than living through Civil War, Birth Control, and Exterminations.
Maybe a 'treatment' is just what is needed.
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>
> Have you considered being your own devil's advocate for SB's, and, if so,
> what have you arrived at so far.
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>
> What about their music that you despise?
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>
> Latenight balcony parties!
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>
> Perhaps you might, instead, hope that China, at least first *considers* SB's
> and subjects them to, for example rigourous feasibility studies, since we
> all know what can happen when something is rushed.
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>
> Like Super Pagodas. ;)
Feasibility is not a problem here. At 50 stories high the technology
exists. All a 1 mile square building does is expand one's that already
exist.
Care does need to be taken in the design of the buildings, however.
Careful planning will eliminate many problems later on when it is
expensive, very expensive, to make changes.
tomcat
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