Arcology proposal for Boston

If that doesn't get James Nicoll's attention, I don't know what will. Photographic evidence of Orson Scott Card torturing a kitten, maybe.

Anyway. an apparently serious design proposal (though I don't think there are any backers, yet) to build a floating concrete arcology in Boston Harbor:

http://www.archboston.org/community/showthread.php?t=3208

Some initial questions spring to my mind:

- What about the traffic when people want to, I don't know, leave paradise to visit their undeserving friends? Where will they park their cars?

- Will any poor people be allowed to live there? Anyone middle-class who has, say, a job that isn't inside the arcology?

- Will this be a gated community, or can mortals walk around inside to worship the gods?

- Is it designed to fold up the drawbridge, hoist anchor and sail away in the event of zombie plague?

- Thirty years afterwards, will anybody be able to escape?

Arcology proposal for Boston

If that doesn't get James Nicoll's attention, I don't know what will. Photographic evidence of Orson Scott Card torturing a kitten, maybe.

Anyway. an apparently serious design proposal (though I don't think there are any backers, yet) to build a floating concrete arcology in Boston Harbor:

http://www.archboston.org/community/showthread.php?t=3208

Some initial questions spring to my mind:

- What about the traffic when people want to, I don't know, leave paradise to visit their undeserving friends? Where will they park their cars?

- Will any poor people be allowed to live there? Anyone middle-class who has, say, a job that isn't inside the arcology?

- Will this be a gated community, or can mortals walk around inside to worship the gods?

- Is it designed to fold up the drawbridge, hoist anchor and sail away in the event of zombie plague?

- Thirty years afterwards, will anybody be able to escape?