The horizontal view of the Rock City in the first Figure shows the way the first one and the ones following will be constructed as satellite cities around the original metroplex. After the people have migrated to the Rock Cities, the ground-level city will have no purpose and will be re-used for our future designs.
The vertical view of the Rock City in the second Figure shows a general view of how the floors will be configured.
The floors closest to ground level are for entertainment since they’re most likely to include going outside for some reason. Gee, honey, I would love to see the light of the Moon in your eyes. Sometimes it gets that way.
The next ten floors are dedicated to businesses and offices since this will serve as a buffer between the entertainment areas and the residential areas. Most of the space in an office will often be required for the back office staff in rooms full of computers and these would be appropriate for this area along with individual businesses because we always have entrepeneurs.
The next thirty floors are dedicated to homes and apartments and don’t get too fixated on one-size-fits-all prefab houses since variety within the Rock City is vital to general human interest. Sameness crushes our thinking so we will design for that.
The lowest ten floors are for infrastructural systems as indicated in the Figure.
What do you know, other than the earlier graphic, this is the first thing which came back to Ithaka from the book version. You may notice this design is for fifty floors rather than one hundred and the reason for the change is the consideration of increasing heat with greater depth. In parallel with this change, we will push the horizontal dimension out to five miles whereas previously we had been allocating half to a single mile. Twenty-five square miles times twenty will result in five hundred square miles of living area so a single Rock City could accommodate Fort Worth without breaking a sweat and this is the smaller version.
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You might want to take into account the actual construction of this city.
5m×5mx.1m is 2.5 cubic miles. Of rock. Not dirt but rock.
A quick calculation is 13Ttillion cubic yards. The closet earth moving project,Panama Canal about 260Mcubic yards.
The Panama Canal was mostly dirt.
You need to go at least 600ft to have 50 floors.
You can dig rock. You drill and blast it. Or As the Chunnel you can chip and Grind
Another comparasion. The Boston Big Dig only about 7million cu yds and still is not actually complete
It was just a 3.5 mile tunnel
Even at a cost of a 10 cents per cubic yard for excavation, you are looking at $1T just to dig it out
And that is just one city. This is why no one digs in a home
So what, you seem to think there's a choice
Let's hear a cost estimate for what it will take to remove the roads from the cities. You're going to have to do it anyway because cars are going obsolete and why not when they're inefficient resource hogs the world can't afford. Found a way to deal with even the used tires have you. I'm aware some want to grind them up and use them in roadbeds and it's a ridiculous solution with such delicious irony but people still 'consider' it.
Money isn't any more than an arbitrary convention of a feudal world. America isn't the acme of evolution but rather the field test to discover whether humans are worthy of evolution. If we get past the problems their Manifest Destiny has caused and is causing, we may yet evolve into actualized beings.
The only real question is whether humans are capable of building machines big enough to get it done and the Yucca Mountain facility goes five miles underground right now. I don't know if it extends beyond a single level but any idea this is impossible is absurd when we're already doing it.
Yucca mountain is a singular tunnel system with multiple large rooms with almost no need for infrastructure.
It would be no more than a simple access tunnel for your city.
And your city is just one of thousands needed to be built in your new society.
And of course money is not important aspect of this project.
You could always build it the same way the Egyptians built the pyramids.
Also each of your floors is 700 times the size of the Yucca mountain tunnels
Still thinking about it as America at its best never shies away from impossible things. Impossible just takes longer.
It is not impossible. I dont think the build it and they will come fits here either. I dont think that very many people would see the lifestyle that accompanies a rock city as inviting
But I also dont see the concrete cities of say NYC as inviting either. I dont understand why you would voluntarily live in that situation.
Fair enough and I did write another one to address the build to some extent. I don't want to rely on a sci fi solution but I will if necessary.
The task of making it inviting is another question and interesting in its own right. That needs an article of its own as well.
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