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Quoth the hippie at the link:
Nononono... You've got it all wrong, hippie dear. We're not going to build these for rich people; they're for environmentalists! Truly! Would I lie?
And when you're all aboard, we'll trigger the scuttling charges.
Quoth the hippie at the link:
According to the less alarming forecasts of the GIEC (Intergovernmental group on the evolution of the climate), the ocean level should rise from 20 to 90 cm during the 21st Century with a status quo by 50 cm (versus 10 cm in the 20th Century). As a solution to this alarming problem architect Vincent Callebaut came up with this ecotectural marvel that could serve as a luxurious future retreat for 50,000 inhabitants seeking refuge from rising waters due to global warming. He believes the world will be desperately seeking shelter from the devastations of climate change, and hopes the auto-sufficient amphibious city will serve as a luxurious solution. To bad that right now we are close to 7 billion people and this luxurious future retreat is just for 50,000 inhabitants ( just for rich people ).
Nononono... You've got it all wrong, hippie dear. We're not going to build these for rich people; they're for environmentalists! Truly! Would I lie?
And when you're all aboard, we'll trigger the scuttling charges.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 07:58
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To bad that right now we are close to 7 billion people and this luxurious future retreat is just for 50,000 inhabitants ( just for rich people ).
This is actually a rather astute observation for a hippie. It demonstrates a grasp of basic mathematical and economic concepts; very rare among the breed.
Finally if you were already planning to reserve a place to this luxurious future retreat stay calm, because Vincent Callebaut hopes that “Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees” will make the transition from design to reality around the year 2100.
...and that's the difference between an architect and an engineer: an architect makes pretty drawings while an engineer makes useful things.
Call me when a real engineer has come up with some plans (probably commissioned by some of those evil rich people that hippies hate/envy). Living in a floating city might be kinda cool, minus all the "global climate refugees" claptrap.
I would love to live there as well, natural selection having ensured that only rich people would live on it thus low crime, etc. but as Banduar points out, these are hippie, liberal rich people so as well as the garage space needed for all those subarus and Volvos you'd have people who don't know how to be rich so I see it turning into a low-income development community within 10 years of launch.
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