Is there any technical reason why we don't have underwater cities yet?
Is there any technical reason why we don't have underwater cities yet?
Elijah Myers
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Gavin Bell
Land is cheap
Thomas Morris
Ever present threat of dolphin rape.
Christopher Howard
i mean, sure, if there were a economic reason for it, we could have many populous cities underwater. but why?
Cooper Perez
Too expensive to maintain, and a single allahu akbar could drown a whole city.
Julian Phillips
We don't need to, global climate change is going to do this for us.
Brayden Miller
niggers can't swim, so no cheap labor to build them
Gavin Parker
>cool now I can live in heavily restricted spaces paying millions of dollars and with no natural sunlight
Daniel Murphy
It'd be easier to live in the fucking desert in climate-controlled dome cities than to do the same thing underwater.
Namely, you don't have the huge pressure difference to deal with, you aren't one step away from being flooded, you can access the city by standard terrestrial means and aviation, etc, etc.
as an aside, all these arguments also apply to living in space
oh, and the ocean environment will cheerfully corrode your metals
it'd be plenty cool, but you could employ similar techniques to live in the wastelands on earth where fuck all else lives and still be able to breathe if something goes wrong
You'll have all the same food and water access issues you'd have to deal with in space or under the sea (lol saltwater).
Michael Nguyen
Chinese hoax BTFO
Jason Long
high pressure
Dominic Martin
what's atlanta?
Sebastian King
Sign me up
Camden Torres
Jayden Wright
>corrode your metals
Why not just make a huge underwater air bubble and live inside there
Isaac Rivera
It is cheaper to live in space.
>natural, abundant source of energy that is readily available
>need to deal with far less pressure difference (1 atm vs 100+)
>more people want to live in space than in a tiny, cold, cramped, dark chamber at the bottom of the ocean
Jacob Nguyen
>Land is cheap
>Land is cheap
>Land is cheap
>Land is cheap
Nathan Butler
The lost city of Atlanta.
Camden Martin
>why we don't
What did you mean by this?
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Bentley Hill
Too many technical difficulties due to the pressures involved. We do have the tech to do it, but it won't look like your image. It will be more like the ISS with small submarine-like compartments, sealed doors & air locks everywhere, and the entire thing will feel like some endless trailer park interior.
Only the very shallowest ones would look like this image. The rest will be too deep to have useful windows due to pressure and lack of light. There's not enough sunlight for growing crops cheaply so of course a power plant will need to supply electric for grow lights.
Depending on the depth, it can be more expensive to maintain than the ISS. The ISS only experiences 1ATM at worst. However, the water pressure increases about one atmosphere for every 10 meters of water depth. At a depth of 5,000 meters (3.1 miles; Challenger Deep is 6.85 miles) the pressure will be approximately 500 atmospheres or 500 times greater than the pressure at sea level. That's 7,348psi (Challenger Deep is over 15,000psi).
Luke Walker
Noah Edwards
James Cameron built a colony at the bottom of marina trench where he breeds ariel mermaids
Aquaman was a documentary
Jason Wright
>buildings are made of steel, wood, glass, concrete, bricks, and plastic
>none of these materials are watertight
>fuck man just dump hot asphalt on the roof that will keep the water out
>fuck man its too hard just make the roof angled so it doesn't have to be waterproof
>falls apart after 10 years
>leaky roof anyway
>building needs to constantly breath or you get pneumonia
>1976 Philadelphia Legionnaires' disease outbreak
>air conditioner fails when its too humid outside
>building needs constant AC because the developer can save money if the walls are onl 8" thick instead of 12" thick
>no insulation in roof lol
>fucking uranium underneath the soil
>radon gas builds up in the basement
>lol just put a fan in the basement to get the radon out
>fracking induced earthquakes in oklahoma
>skyscrapers on fault line in los angeles
>new orleans rebuilt below sea level
>miami hurricane-resistant skyscrapers destroyed by cranes knocked over by hurricane
>entire of state pennsylvania getting cucked by homeowners who keep their windows open during state mandated radon tests to hide radon levels
>amish don't believe in radon exhaust vents because simple living withotu electricity
>entire city of flint cucked by one water treatment plant that accidentally corroded the entire city's water pipes with acidity water
>pvc is too expensive lets rebuild flint lead water pipes with more lead pipes.
>california requires every new building to have solar panels even if the building is in a foggy (re: half of california) place with no solar power gain.
construction is a retard industry that cannot solve the most basic problems on land, let alone underwater.
Lincoln Nguyen
is there any reason i should tell everyone about my private underwater city?
Connor Martin
you a idiot?
Lucas Russell
sauce?
Juan Butler
Almost every one of those is the fault of the cheap/stupid developer, not the contractor
The tower cranes are though
Christopher Kelly
>not the contractor
In the 1980s, my family owned a construction contractor business. They turned down jobs where the developer wanted to do something stupid and wouldn't listen to anyone. So, yeah, it is the fault of every single person involved from the idea to the person who lives in them.