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this is the final frontier. we've conquered the land, the oceans, the skies. some people live in orbit, men have walked on the moon. but you can still carve ou
by _dain_ 3y ago
this is the final frontier. we've conquered the land, the oceans, the skies. some people live in orbit, men have walked on the moon.
but you can still carve out a new world for yourself. you can still go down. there's enough room down there for a whole new world, with different borders and nations. and another one below that .. layers and layers like an onion. one hundred billion mole-men, saturating the earth's crust --
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- BLKNSLVR 3y agoFuturama's (old) New York. But that's the domain of the sewer mutants. They flush their unwanted reptilian pets to the sub-sewer, where they become monsters.
- dr_kiszonka 3y agoThere is even precedent: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220810-derinkuyu-turkeys-underground-city-of-20000-people https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220810-derinkuyu-turkey...
- pomian 3y agoBeware that those down there, don't turn into Morlocks.
- JKCalhoun 3y agoI was promised an Iron Mole in "At the Earth's Core". Where is my drill tank?
- lazyasciiart 3y agoWe haven’t conquered the ocean below sea-level, really.
- maxden 3y agothought your comment was going to become a quote from the Artilleryman from Jeff Waynes musical version of War of the Worlds! "We're gonna build a whole new world for ourselves. Look, they clap eyes on us and we're dead, right? So we gotta make a new life where they'll never find us. You know where? Underground. You should see it down there – hundreds of miles of drains – sweet and clean now after the rain, dark, quiet, safe. We can build houses and everything, start again from scratch. And what's so bad about living underground, eh? It's not been so great living up here, if you want my opinion."
- jacquesm 3y agoThat was exactly the association I had when I read it!