| Warm Worm 2006-09-17, 8:25 pm |
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"tomcat" wrote
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> Warm Worm wrote:
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> 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.
Those statements sound like guesses of faith, and without any elaborative
support.
I mean, if you're going to do that while mentioning commonplace space travel
in 100 years, and shrink rays, then, like those floating warriors we see in
movies (ie. Kill Bill) anything seems game, and it all becomes a mere flight
of fancy.
(That's probably why I've never really been crazy about those kinds of
movies, save for The Matrix perhaps.)
In short, you need to conform to the laws of physics if you want to avoid
that.
(You have to eventually come out of your "Matrix".)
And in order to do that, you need to understand what they are and how they
work.
You need to know the rules and complexities, or at least have a relatively
good understanding of them.
And they are multidisciplinary, and include sociology, psychology,
chemistry, biology, politics, and so on.
You not only need to know them, but also how they all interrelate and
interract.
Otherwise, you have a glorified flophouse on paper.
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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> 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.
Just make sure your "treatment" doesn't end up creating more problems than
it solves and isn't worse than the cause or the cure.
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> 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.
I am talking about actually performing the feasibility studies. "Common
sense" can be deceptive.
Sometimes you have to ask questions about which you think you already have
the answers for because sometimes the answers aren't what you expect.
You can't be cavalier about these kinds of projects-- that is unless you
don't want them to succeed. Then you can be as wet behind the ears as you
want to be.
And yes, I say that because I think you are, sweetie, which is not to say
that I don't appreciate your idea or that we all aren't in our own ways and
levels of wetness-- both as individuals, and as entire societies. 
> 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.
Yes, and wise, humble, democratic and knowledgeable, too.
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