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We systematically destroy flatlands with urban sprawl yet yearn to live in the mountains.
Solution: Move to the mountains.
My Mountain Home Inc has bought a number of snowcapped peaks and drilled a honeycomb of tunnels both horizontally and vertically through each of them. You'll never want to
live in an apartment tower again.
Offices, shopping spaces, living quarters, public spaces... all hewn from the living rock. Breathtaking views from the heights, water stored from snowmelt to service the cities built in the mountains.
Pity your poor cousins down on the flat country. The rock spoil is used for roads and construction so they can come and visit every now and then.
Yamantau
http://www.viewzone.com/yamantau.html
"Yamantau Mountain is the largest nuclear-secure project in the world... [skinflaps, Sep 27 2006]
petra
http://www.outremer.co.uk/petra.html
[Murdoch, Sep 27 2006]
town in Czech republic
http://www.vitejte....t.php?oid=4529&j=en
[Murdoch, Sep 27 2006]
and the Native Americans started about 10,000 years ago
http://www.phototri...e_gallery_0601.html
[xandram, Sep 27 2006]
The Temple of Humankind
http://www.damanhur...emple/html/info.htm
A work in process [reensure, Sep 27 2006]
Coober Pedy
http://en.wikipedia...dy,_South_Australia
'from the local Aboriginal term kupa piti, meaning "white man in a hole".' [BunsenHoneydew, Sep 29 2006]
[link]
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I'll take a dozen - when's the next food airlift? |
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Around here (well, the mountainous regions at least), we're destroying the mountains with suburban sprawl. This is just more of the same, only industrial strength. Fishbone from my inner Sierra Club. |
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Given that in a few years the rising sea levels caused by car drivers will submerge most of the world's cities along rivers by coastal regions, this is probably more than a good idea, it's an essential step. |
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I've often wondered why no-one lives in Machu Picchu anymore - it looks like a great spot. |
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Isn't creation of living spaces by hewing them from the living rock oh-so-very-very baked throughout history?
see links |
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But then how do we rip the top of the mountains to scoop out the sweet sweet coal inside? |
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There's no coal inside granite mountains.
There's no suburban sprawl if you're inside the mountain, rather than built on the outside
There's no need to build on the fertile river plains. Towns in Italy are up on the hills, mostly, to allow the fertile areas to be farmed. |
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I'm merely suggesting we put them IN the hills, to maximise use of space. |
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Sierra Club be damned. We've got some fruit loop left mob here trying to ban fishing, pets and the milking of cows. |
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yes of course its baked but on a small scale except for a few exceptions cuberpetty in Australia (I'm sure that's spelled wrong.) is an Opal mining community largely under ground from what i've heard.The digging machinery is just reaching a level that could make something like this feasible envision parks with scheduled daylight and weather, energy is a problem though geothermal with the tunneling technology? or nuclear maybe acceptable if its encased in its own section of isolated mountain. This would also be great practice for a town on the moon/mars. [+]+ |
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Think Cheyenne Mountain with views. |
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(+) "Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for? " |
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Continuing geological processes gave me cause for concern, while I was writing the idea, I must admit. |
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Hasn't stopped the builders of the
Eurotunnel, or the London
Underground. The Jubilee line train I
was on the other day stopped halfway
underneath the Thames equidistant
between Canning Town and North
Greenwich, for a minute or so. I was
quite amazed at how much dribbling
and leakage there appeared to be from
the cracks between almost every single
panel that clads the tunnel. And that bit
of the line has only been built since
1999. |
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What prompted the idea was the massive tunnels in Italy and Switzerland. There are seriously long tunnels (between 20 and 30 km long) clear through mountains, in norhern Italy and Switzerland. |
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They leak a little, but that's just a plumbing issue. Nor does there some to be any major concerns about seismic activity. The only thing they're really hot and bothered about is the possibility of fire in the tunnels. |
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//dribbling and leakage // thames water or Thames Water? |
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[po] hopefully the former. The latter could be expensive. |
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//Think Cheyenne Mountain with views.// |
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Funny you should say that. Cheyenne Mountain will be vacant soon. Just add views! |
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That's Coober Pedy. [link] |
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[2 fries shy of a happy meal] |
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