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one big city
Topic Started: Jul 4 2010, 07:43 PM (545 Views)
Dragon wasp
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i thought of this idea while i was on a drive. (well actually my little sister did) were all the human population crams into a big city. the rest of the world would be unknown and scary to the city people.


i was thinking the city might be somewhere in europe or asia.


how big do you think it would be? i was guessing about the size of madagagar.
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It would have to be a very large city, not to mention it would be constantly expanding as the population grows. How would they get everyone to cram in there anyway?
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well maybe it would be appartments so the ground wouldn't get so crowded.
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what about food?
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they have very very large farmland and dairy factorys ect.
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But it would be very hard to take food from outside to the center of the city.

One big city just wouldn't work, not even if it's built like Ba Sing Se.
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Corusant work very well :P
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Perhaps a massive distribution road through the center, then everything brought in is veined throughout the city via smaller offshoots?
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Complete recycling, of all waste? Perhaps a massive nanotube roof over the whole thing, to conserve gases which would otherwise escape.

Would there be parks, lakes and the like?

Massive skyscrapers are one idea. And maybe we can also have cable cars between them.

Light is a problem in these scenarios, massive electricity generation is needed. Fusion or anti-matter reactions, maybe?
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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anti-matter reactions looks cool.There could be parks,gardens or farms at top of skyscapers
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Or maybe in giant hangar-like buildings.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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I think that creating one single giant settlement is possible, but the question is - why? When there is so much space and good growing land nearby, what's to stop urban-to-rural migration?
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If all yanks lived in the same population density as in Brooklyn, York 2: The Revenge of York (or whatever you're calling New Amsterdam these days) then they could all fit into New Hampshire.
There are about 20 Americas worth of people in the world, so you'd need a area roughly the size of Spain. Actually it's closer to Turkmenistan, but it's better to over estimate than underestimate.

However running such a city would be incredibly hard, it would have to be coastal to import enough food water would be a massive problem, you'll need some mighty rivers to keep people's thirst quenched.

The outside would not be unknown, people would still need to farm, mine, fish, etc and do other things outside the city.
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When people sleep drain them of their blood, leaving just enough to keep them alive, refill the veins and arteries with fluids designed to be rapidly absorbed by the body and converted into fats and sugars and what-have-yous as storage.

Then sell their blood on the black market.
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To who? And who drains the drainers? ;)
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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