How do we build an under water utopia?

[Keanumoreira]

As populations around the globe swells even tighter every year,we are losing land to support them. Some people have looked to the skies saying "well what about the Moon, or Mars?" Others have looked underwater. So can we do it? Can we truly build a city beneath the waves that won't explode from water pressure, that is cheap to build and self supportive. Can we in truth save more lives above if they are moved below?

[Trandoshan]

Cheap, and self supportive? Never. I will say that creating under-water facilities can be done without any problem of deep sea pressure. How? Build on the continental shelves first, while our technology works its way up to the task, then when we need to build em' deeper we will have the means to do so. Still, such facilities are expensive. The creation and use would be for the filthy rich, and used in order to escape the poor.

 

 

 

 

off topic....

Has anyone played BioShock lately? :thumbsup:

[Quetzlsacatanango]

If things are so bad that you're running out of land, it's a lot cheaper and easier to put the overflow onto ships out on the surface of the ocean. Think The Raft from Snow Crash. It's unlikely anyone but the poorest are getting crowded off of the land, meaning that the only ones who have a need/interest in undersea domes are research scientist and insane Randian tycoons, neither of which need it to be especially cheap.

[Vagrant0]

They'd just enact stronger population controls or make better use of surface portions. Underwater living may sound all futuristic and all, but it isn't particularly practical in any way that it might be done. Even the rich wouldn't want to live underwater since they would be too isolated from all the luxuries of the mainland. Floating cities maybe, not something below.

[CommanderCrazy]

I agree with what Vagrant said. If the government sent a few large, extrmely buoyant barges with a few houses & maybe a minor desalination plant, people might get by.

 

As for my idea of an underwater place, even if could cope with the pressure, what happens if just a micro 2mm crack appears? Crack doesn't cope with the pressure & then, Boom. Everybody near that crack is near instantly dead just from the force of the water, which then floods the city.

 

If we were to build an underwater city, I think it would be like an underwater research facility with a few personal rooms & a boat/ a few helicopters going to the mainland for food & supplies.

[jaysus]

floating cities always have the problem of getting crushed by waves sooner or later except we build somin like floating balls (i actually designed some of these during my exams lol) but it wouldnt really make sense as we dont run out of landmass anytime soon, there is still alot of undeveloped desert, mountain ranges etc we could inhabit first. its a pity we waste fertile land for highways, parking lots and waste deposits atm

 

underwater building would be much safer in that regards, however the pressure is rather extreme, really... too extreme lol...

 

its easier to build a spaceship than a submarine, it just costs a bit too much to send all that building material into space atm, however nasa has plans to build a mining colony on moon which would just need some crazy settlers and a few spaceshuttles full of them, the material needed to build the city itself could be mined an processed on moon

[hoshi23]

How do we build an under water utopia? Easy. Fly to Dubai with Emirates and talk them into your idea. I figure they are the only folks crazy enough to realise such a project. No offence of course.

Dubai is insane place to be i am sure. :biggrin:

[MonsterHunterMaster]

Theres a project running. They want to connect I think it was UK or something like that and the US with an underwater "train" station. They want to make a vacuum in the tunnel so the "train" travels very fast, so you can travel to the US without flying in a plane..I saw this bout a year in tv news, but never heard anything about it again since then...

[Vagrant0]

floating cities always have the problem of getting crushed by waves sooner or later

Not necessarily. There are parts of the ocean which rarely experience any severe weather. The Sargasso Sea comes to mind. There's also a rather large island of floating refuse in the middle of the Pacific that doesn't seem to be in any real danger.

 

But yeah, there's plenty of area still on land which can be developed. We'll probably run out of clean water and food long before we're pushing each other off into the sea just to have a place to lay down. Eventually it'll become more cost effective to be building up instead of spreading out, which will make use of that often forgotten 3rd direction.

[Trandoshan]

There's also a rather large island of floating refuse in the middle of the Pacific that doesn't seem to be in any real danger.

 

Are you perhaps taking about this?