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    An Airborne City Emerges from the Clouds

    A Floating Ecopolis for the Age of Rising Seas

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    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    01/21/09

    In reply to An Airborne City Emerges from the Clouds
    Sigh, I want them to build a space elevator.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    01/21/09

    @corpore-metal: Well we've started on the carbon nanotubes, right? All we need is to produce cylindric diamocrel or transparent aluminum. Oh, and 18-hours of elevator Muzak that won't cause passengers to become homicidal.

    That's the biggest challenge.
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    Image of CalderMedusa CalderMedusa
    01/21/09

    In reply to An Airborne City Emerges from the Clouds
    So its a City. And its in the Clouds. But what do we name this...city in the clouds? Hmmmmmmm.
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    01/21/09

    @CalderMedusa: Bob
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    01/21/09

    @Skunky: You can't name a planet Bob.


    (couldn't stop my self)

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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    01/21/09

    @LittleDragon: I'm just happy you caught the reference!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    01/21/09

    In reply to An Airborne City Emerges from the Clouds
    Heh, I find it funny that such an advanced civilization would also have hot air balloons just floatin around.
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    Image of Aethelred Aethelred
    01/21/09

    @crashedpc: Those are balloons filled with very high-tech hot air ... think "Steve Jobs testimony" air.
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    Image of Valrose Valrose
    01/21/09

    @crashedpc:


    we still have horse and buggy rides in some areas, for the tourists and special events. mayhaps it is the same with the balloons. If structures like that did exist, how cool would it be to float by one to another in a hot air balloon? It would be full of awesome sauce.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    01/21/09

    @Valrose: Funny, I just put awesome sauce all over my hash browns!


    It's all fun and games until the balloon is perforated by a flying air dart going 200mph.

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    01/21/09

    @Aethelred: *shakes fingers* I wish I had thought of that.
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    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    01/21/09

    @crashedpc: They're not hot air balloons but future energy requirements put a lot of dirigible-based wind turbines in the sky:


    [www.magenn.com]


    This is a concept I'd like to see in a science fiction film just because it would look so cool.


    Imagine one of these giant dirigible turbines tethered four or five hundred meters above the gleaming metropolis of Lagos, Nigeria (High tech economic powerhouse of the planet!). It's skin is coated with jet black PV cells to capture energy from the sun's light. Now imagine the film's protagonist hanging precariously from the helicopter platform without a parachute as the killer moves in--a cool scene, eh?

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    01/21/09

    @corpore-metal: The killer is really the protagonist's father, isn't he?
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    01/21/09

    @crashedpc: Not many floating cities have runways, it's got to be VTOLs or balloons for travel.
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    Image of ultra_balexbot ultra_balexbot
    01/21/09

    In reply to An Airborne City Emerges from the Clouds
    looks like something Suare-Enix would come up with for a Final Fantasy game. great designs though.
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    01/21/09

    @ultra_balexbot: that should have read "Square-Enix." go! proofreading.
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    01/21/09

    @ultra_balexbot: Final Fantasy meets S.H.I.E.L.D. was my first thought.
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