Arcology proposal for Boston

[dsrtao]

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?

Comments

[the-nita.livejournal.com]

Besides the laughing and pointing from up here, my sweetie comments, "My god, that's ugly."

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

If you push the right button, it swims away, sinks, and becomes the secret lair for evil geniuses!

Nothing could be more geniusier than this thing!

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

PS Design needs one more X. Sex sells.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Interesting.

My first visceral reaction to the design was "falls over sideways like a domino" but I suppose they have means to prevent that.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

torturing kittens

I've found spelling his name wrong also works.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Hey!

Anyway I expect that Card like most Americans would at most be indifferent to a pet animal. All kitten torturing would be confined to his books, used to show who the villains are.

[pale-chartreuse.livejournal.com]

There is no such thing as a serious design proposal with no backers.

This is what is politely know as "unbuilt architecture". Otherwise known as "what architects doodle while standing in the unemployment line". There are entire books of stuff like this from the 1930's.

Nothing here could escape a typical Boston permitting process. Never mind global warming.

[dsrtao]

I bow to your experience.

[metageek.livejournal.com]

Nothing here could escape a typical Boston permitting process. Never mind global warming.

Yeah, I noticed they said, "this floating city isn’t worried about the threat of rising oceans"—but it's going to be economically dependent on a city which would be absolutely devastated by rising oceans.