Why should anyone want to live inside a gigantic rock tomb since I might as well move to a mausoleum as they don't have windows either.
The ideal for most of us is to live out on a farm or a spread like one where we can grow zucchini as we like.
Note: don't plant two or you will have so many zucchini you will have to force them on guests just to ensure they don't get wasted. That warning is straight from Cat and she was practically crying laughing about it.
Most of us don't live on farms and we're in the cities. They're hideous and we don't like them but the advantages seem to outweigh the disadvantages. We're likely to end up living in some type of concrete or rock construct anyway so the question is how to make it a place anyone wants to be. As something we don't want is the type of low-end New York high-rise which only looks out at the windows of other low-rent high-rises. We don't think it's going to be too tough to come up with something a whole lot better than that.
One thing which is sure to kill any idea of inviting is if the ceilings are too low. We're assuming twenty feet for this which is easily sufficient for growing shrubs, etc in the tunnels connecting the homes. We're highly-proficient with artificial sunlight so it shouldn't be any big deal getting things to grow. If that works out perfectly, it's conceivable there will be gardens in front of every home since residents won't be wasting time cutting grass or any of the other aspects of completely wasted time inherent in typical home ownership.
If we use as a starting point the tunnels are twenty feet tall then we probably don't want them so high in the residences since that may not be the most comfortable for people. We need comfort in our homes wherever we live and the ceiling height will have a lot to do with that. If it's too high, it's not likely we will be able to sleep in it because there are too many demons flying around up there in the dark. You know how it goes when you awaken at three in the morning. You'll see all kinds of things but many aren't there.
The final height for the interior of the residences doesn't need a hard answer just now as it's enough to visualize the tunnels are higher. There's also a solid effort to create natural light within them while street lights are just about as unnatural as it's possible to make them.
We often hear people say, "I need to be near the sea."
I like being near the sea as well and maybe it's a deep ancestral thing in which we remember where we started. Unknown but we can throw up a ten-foot mural on your wall with a live 'cast from any beach you like. My preference is Greece but yours is likely different. If that's not enough, add some perfumed (i.e. salty) air. Just dial that on your thermostat since you won't much need it for controlling temperature so make it smarter than that. Maybe another one you like is the smell of the dry earth after a rain on a hot Summer day. Dial that into the system and enjoy that instead.
Inviting? Man, there's almost no other consideration to this since we want it so damn inviting people will come to the Rock City even if they have to crawl. It's important to keep in mind we have no intention of mandating anything and the last thing we want to do is tell the people in some Bavarian village they have to abandon it to move underground. There's no way in hell they would do it anyway and why should they when those villages are highly stable.
Cheyenne Mountain is one of the biggest underground developments and the size of it is probably classified.
Just had to know and the NORAD complex at Cheyenne Mountain was designed to accommodate eight hundred people. That's not much relative to how many we need for the Rock City but they built a lot of it in the sixties so there you see the technology for drilling out solid rock (granite, in this case) was at least that far along fifty years ago. (WIKI: Cheyenne Mountain)
Note: apparently the functions were migrated to Patterson AFB in 2006. Unknown why but it's not germane anyway.
Comparison of a military installation to anything we have in mind is pointless since such places aren't where anyone wants to live. Regardless of which base, they're about as sterile as it's possible to get.
So, yes, we definitely want to make it inviting and we believe we can easily top the city which doesn't offer anything inviting except that's where to find Broadway, etc. Getting to Broadway, however, is one flaming pain in the ass and that's the problem to solve.
The ideal for most of us is to live out on a farm or a spread like one where we can grow zucchini as we like.
Note: don't plant two or you will have so many zucchini you will have to force them on guests just to ensure they don't get wasted. That warning is straight from Cat and she was practically crying laughing about it.
Most of us don't live on farms and we're in the cities. They're hideous and we don't like them but the advantages seem to outweigh the disadvantages. We're likely to end up living in some type of concrete or rock construct anyway so the question is how to make it a place anyone wants to be. As something we don't want is the type of low-end New York high-rise which only looks out at the windows of other low-rent high-rises. We don't think it's going to be too tough to come up with something a whole lot better than that.
One thing which is sure to kill any idea of inviting is if the ceilings are too low. We're assuming twenty feet for this which is easily sufficient for growing shrubs, etc in the tunnels connecting the homes. We're highly-proficient with artificial sunlight so it shouldn't be any big deal getting things to grow. If that works out perfectly, it's conceivable there will be gardens in front of every home since residents won't be wasting time cutting grass or any of the other aspects of completely wasted time inherent in typical home ownership.
If we use as a starting point the tunnels are twenty feet tall then we probably don't want them so high in the residences since that may not be the most comfortable for people. We need comfort in our homes wherever we live and the ceiling height will have a lot to do with that. If it's too high, it's not likely we will be able to sleep in it because there are too many demons flying around up there in the dark. You know how it goes when you awaken at three in the morning. You'll see all kinds of things but many aren't there.
The final height for the interior of the residences doesn't need a hard answer just now as it's enough to visualize the tunnels are higher. There's also a solid effort to create natural light within them while street lights are just about as unnatural as it's possible to make them.
We often hear people say, "I need to be near the sea."
I like being near the sea as well and maybe it's a deep ancestral thing in which we remember where we started. Unknown but we can throw up a ten-foot mural on your wall with a live 'cast from any beach you like. My preference is Greece but yours is likely different. If that's not enough, add some perfumed (i.e. salty) air. Just dial that on your thermostat since you won't much need it for controlling temperature so make it smarter than that. Maybe another one you like is the smell of the dry earth after a rain on a hot Summer day. Dial that into the system and enjoy that instead.
Inviting? Man, there's almost no other consideration to this since we want it so damn inviting people will come to the Rock City even if they have to crawl. It's important to keep in mind we have no intention of mandating anything and the last thing we want to do is tell the people in some Bavarian village they have to abandon it to move underground. There's no way in hell they would do it anyway and why should they when those villages are highly stable.
Cheyenne Mountain is one of the biggest underground developments and the size of it is probably classified.
Just had to know and the NORAD complex at Cheyenne Mountain was designed to accommodate eight hundred people. That's not much relative to how many we need for the Rock City but they built a lot of it in the sixties so there you see the technology for drilling out solid rock (granite, in this case) was at least that far along fifty years ago. (WIKI: Cheyenne Mountain)
Note: apparently the functions were migrated to Patterson AFB in 2006. Unknown why but it's not germane anyway.
Comparison of a military installation to anything we have in mind is pointless since such places aren't where anyone wants to live. Regardless of which base, they're about as sterile as it's possible to get.
So, yes, we definitely want to make it inviting and we believe we can easily top the city which doesn't offer anything inviting except that's where to find Broadway, etc. Getting to Broadway, however, is one flaming pain in the ass and that's the problem to solve.
5 comments:
I still dont buy into living there why watch everything on some marvelous TV. Why not go to the beach. Or live near it.
Setting ceiling height at 20 feet would at least double the cubic yard to dig
I'm probably going to use the sci fi answer to drilling out the rock and that will be a huge laser.
Likely beachfront property will become even more expensive than it is now and that's the main reason people don't do it already. It's also a major drag living anywhere near a tourist area and I did that for a while when I lived quite close to Newport, RI. The place was plagued with cars in the high season.
Assuming global warming is even close to accurate and there's no indication thus far it isn't, moving next to a beach isn't exactly a good long-term solution anyway. Much easier just to move a camera than a house.
Another reason is Hurricane Matthew and he didn't deliver all the kills the media had hoped but he wasted the beaches with a whole lot of that sand going back to the ocean. Unknown what happened in SC or NC but that definitely happened in Florida.
Again if global warming is accurate, there will be more storms of that nature so living next to a beach isn't the idyllic paradise it seems in the brochures. Plus they have big ass snakes.
As to why watch it on TV, it's because the TV is central to most American homes anyway. We want better ones for the Rock City, much better. There's a 70-inch HDR 4K TV right now for thousands but that price will come down and the evolution is extremely rapid. I doubt people will resist too much the lifestyle since they don't get a sunburn, there's no damn tourists, and if they get tired of the view then they can switch to the NFL.
The more you describe life in rock city the worse it sounds.
In Rock City you never have to leave your room just change the program to po retend to experience some version of reality.
I would rather go walking in tbe woods or swim n in the ocean than walk on a treadmill to some scenes that someone else actually did.
Ela, ela! People spend half their lives watching television to live in artificial realities! There's nothing to stop anyone from walking in the woods since no-one is captive any more than they are now. It's not at all my intention to create some type of Matrix out of stone where people never leave it. With a Rock City, the woods may well be on the roof and a sight closer than any woods in a city.
In fact, the living area in your own pad can't see much of anything outside and the TV will usually be active. There is natural light coming into it and I'm not entirely sure we can duplicate that effect but I do believe we can make a good go of it.
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