[Lurker]

Originally Posted by afterthefact

While I agree that there are big risks and problems with this idea, I don't feel that it loses "humaness." I don't feel that land has any direct connecting with the human race except for the fact that this is where we have always lived. We might feel that we lose something in a change like this, but that is only because we are preconditioned to view land as our home. As generations went on, living on these floating cities, humans would feel no specific connection towards land in the same way we do today.

No I meant it would lose humaness by being completely designed unlike the way cities usually develop.

It might start with a few but how long until there's very little sea left to see.

[Lurker]

Originally Posted by floatingslowly

floatingcities are for suckers.

sunken is where it's at.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Yves_Cousteau

[afterthefact]

Originally Posted by Lurker

No I meant it would lose humaness by being completely designed unlike the way cities usually develop.

It might start with a few but how long until there's very little sea left to see.

Yes, but wouldn't that add to the humanness of society? Wouldn't there be more human effort involved? To me, while I do believe many things (I don't want to say essential things, although they may seem essential to life as we know it know) would be lost, I don't believe humanness would be one of them.

It may seem more human to work with the land we are given and plan around what is already here, but as I mentioned before, we only see that as essential to humanity because it is all we have ever known. We are biased toward land right now; I don't believe it would take long for our viewpoint to change.

[cars_willkillyou]

okay, so here's the deal. The planet is getting warmer, and it's at an irreversible point now. Whether we caused it with pollution or not is up for debate, but personally I agree with the world-wide scientific community that pollution caused global warming. Unless we do something very drastic and very expensive that can somehow make the planet colder in the polar regions, we are going to have a lot more water and a lot less land in the next 100 years or so.

I am not opposed to ocean life. In fact, I want to live on one of those floating cities right now. or in a sealab 2020(1) kind of thing. As long as these floating cities are indeed self-sufficient energy-wise, and completely powered by renewable energy and does create pollution in my water, then i am happy with them.

However

We need to have colonies in space more than anything. Stephen Hawking said so.

[pbradley]

Originally Posted by floatingslowly

floatingcities are for suckers.

sunken is where it's at.

oh really?

 

No, no I'm not welcome to Rapture. Fuck you, glowing text, fuck you hard.

[phoenix]

look sweet, when can I move in?

I really don't believe the weather would be very nice, though.

[joe11121]

Those cities look, um, odd, but then again, it'd be fun to live in. Weird, but cool. It really doesn't matter to me.

[pbradley]

I think aesthetics would be the last thing I would care when it comes to a post-apocalypse.

I'd rather live in what looks like a giant, floating, moss-covered sink than to inhale water.