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    Image of phoenix phoenix
    09/23/09

    In reply to Battlestation San Francisco
    My incredibly jaded fellow privileged commenters aside, I will concur that the photo looks really really awesome.
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    Image of kolacek kolacek
    09/23/09

    In reply to Battlestation San Francisco
    Yeah sure...it looks nice from the air. You want to impress people San Francisco?

    How about you wipe down the inside of a BART car (or a MUNI bus) maybe just once in a frikkin' decade.

    (My fellow residents know what I'm talking about)

    "Eww" doesn't cover it.

    .
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    Image of wanion wanion
    09/23/09

    @kolacek: Sure, we could do that, but then we'd have to get someone to wipe down all the people who ride BART and MUNI.

    But, hey, at least it's not San Jose, which from the air looks like a puckering asshole, but at night, with all the lights, looks like a glowing, puckering asshole.

    (disclosure: I live in Mountain View, ie part of the Bay Area's taint)
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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    09/23/09

    In reply to Battlestation San Francisco
    Looks like a luminescent insect with 2 body segments, six limbs and antennae.

    fwiw I'll be vacationing in SF Oct 3-11.
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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    09/23/09

    @Mathmos: Now I'm seeing it as a Kachina doll. This seems like a multivalent image, for which perception can flip back and forth.
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    Image of Log1c Log1c
    09/23/09

    In reply to Battlestation San Francisco
    Looks like Atlantis, from SG:A.
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    Image of burlybax burlybax
    09/23/09

    In reply to Battlestation San Francisco
    At first glance i thought this was a screen grab of a space station from a tv show or movie.
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    Image of jbrecken jbrecken
    09/23/09

    In reply to Battlestation San Francisco
    Battlestar Francisco sounds like it could be the title of an Alien Nation crossover fanfic
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    Image of phoghat phoghat
    09/18/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?

    In a spooky voice, with a flashlight under my chin: "In The Year 2000"
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    09/17/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?
    I live near Golden and work (currently) around 120th and I-25. You and I and Mrs. Overclock (etc.) should get together for dinner sometime!
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    09/17/09

    @Chip Overclock: (Sorry, fumble fingered that reply.)
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    Image of Boas_MC Boas_MC
    09/17/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?
    I think the more interesting shots from Minority Report and I, Robot would have been those that show that much of those cities' current architecture is still very much intact, including brick buildings with exterior fire escapes, etc. Those shots give a much more organic sense of what happens to cities over time, rather than what the shots here imply, which is that somehow cities will be razed to the ground and built back up from scratch. I guess what I'm saying is that in envisioning urban futures, the filmmakers had a more nuanced vision than what these stills give them credit for.
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    Image of hamshank hamshank
    09/17/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?
    excuse me: we seem to be lacking the ones where it's the cockroaches riding around on horses, crunching our bones under-hoof ...
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    Image of Ryozenzuzex Ryozenzuzex
    09/16/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?

    What about New Chicago?
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    09/16/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?
    The big pink building shown in Woody Allen's SLEEPER ("The Institute") is the Mesa Laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder Colorado. Designed by I. M. Pei. I worked there for several years. Much of it is open to the public, it has free parking, and there are hiking trails in the foothills above it.
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    Image of Craig Dawson Craig Dawson
    09/17/09

    @Chip Overclock:
    Chip, do you currently live in the Boulder area? I live in Denver, and have been to NCAR once a few years ago.
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    09/17/09

    @Craig Dawson: I live near Golden and work (currently) around 120th and I-25. You and I and Mrs. Overclock (etc.) should get together for dinner sometime!
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    Image of Meldrick Meldrick
    09/16/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?
    Aw, has it really been that long since Buck Rogers boogied around in New Chicago that you'd forget that, but use TWO images from a freakin' toy cartoon?

    This is an outrage!!!11!!1!!
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    Image of Elpon Elpon
    09/16/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?
    I can never picture Paris without a fiery meteor hurtling toward it.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    09/16/09

    @Elpon:
    That waiter must have been a real dick.
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    Image of slaine17 slaine17
    09/16/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?

    Another London
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    09/17/09

    @slaine17: That's a lot of balls.
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