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At the cost of only $8 billion, I'm surprised that more megaprojects like this aren't being done. What monuments are we leaving for future generations? Why isn
by ZoomerCretin 4y ago
At the cost of only $8 billion, I'm surprised that more megaprojects like this aren't being done.
What monuments are we leaving for future generations? Why isn't anyone building a Great-Pyramid-of-Giza sized project every hundred years?
- booi 4y agoDoes the Great Pacific Garbage Patch count?
- carapace 4y agoHa! I'm planning to collect the GPGP and turn it into a large artificial floating structure. Floating in the air. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Nine_(sphere) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Nine_(sphere) (It's mostly a stunt to show humanity that we can do great things.)
- csh0 4y agoA great Stack Exchange answer on the feasibility of such a structure. https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/36667/can-cloud-nine-be-built https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/36667/can-...
- carapace 4y agoI just skimmed it. Folks are having fun. :) The question isn't what material to use, it's how big do you have to be (with a given material) to float? You can always just make your sphere bigger, eh? (That's kinda the point. It would actually be really really inconvenient to live in a Cloud Nine, no?) Anyway, I'm also going to use kites. (E.g. Imagine the Cloud Nine with a skirt like the Rings of Saturn, rotating, with the individual "cells" of the kite membrane modulated to afford directional control... Or Magnus Effect "cilia" that manipulate the envelope of air around the sphere...)
- avaldez_ 4y agoThe UK is in the Atlantic ocean not in the Pacific.
- ronsor 4y agoSaudi Arabia is working on that super-expensive and fancy "The Line" city project.
- lillywastaken 4y agoWhich is, frankly, an idiotic waste of money.
- pjc50 4y agoInsufficient belief in the afterlife. Today's billionaires are content to burn out in a streak across the sky.