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If any of you have played bioshock, you'd know it based in a city under the sea. For those who dont, the city is called Rapture, it was built after the second world war as a utopia for the intellectual somewhere in the Pacific. I was thinking that the possibility that this could have happened. What are your views on this, could this have been possible?
Judging from the beautiful graphics crafted by ex-Irrational Games, the feasibility of such a massive setting seems almost… within our grasp. However, like so many other impossible things within Bioshock, the submerse city of Rapture could not have been built at the same time Bobby Darin sang "Beyond the Sea": they had enormous trouble building functional submarines of large proportions as it was, imagine a city so large, with permanent air recycling and electric power distribution placed in a deep and remote part of the sea. Also, the time it would take to build something so complex would implicate that the construction would have begun somewhere in the 40’s – the game is played in 1960, and already the place seems to have suffered the downfall of a few decades. Rapture doesn’t represent a real city, in my point of view; it is an exceptional attempt to create a Utopia – something which breathes idealism and not realism.
As for a project of this sort at the present time, I would say it could be possible on a smaller scale, but it would mean an unthinkable workforce, more than a decade to build, as well as a great amount of human loss. It would be the definite way to survive in case of a deluge of Biblical proportions, but the worst place on earth to inhabit in case of a substantial earthquake. So I think there is absolutely nothing that would justify such an ambitious, risky and essentially redundant venture. Today, architects aim for safe places to live in, which are able to withstand earthquakes, storms and strong winds; not the sort of place where, at times, the only thing keeping you from drowning is a thick glass window.
The main question here is: if such a place did exist, would you want to live in it? In which case, my answer is definitely ‘no’. What’s yours?
Great topic, thanks!
As for a project of this sort at the present time, I would say it could be possible on a smaller scale, but it would mean an unthinkable workforce, more than a decade to build, as well as a great amount of human loss. It would be the definite way to survive in case of a deluge of Biblical proportions, but the worst place on earth to inhabit in case of a substantial earthquake. So I think there is absolutely nothing that would justify such an ambitious, risky and essentially redundant venture. Today, architects aim for safe places to live in, which are able to withstand earthquakes, storms and strong winds; not the sort of place where, at times, the only thing keeping you from drowning is a thick glass window.
The main question here is: if such a place did exist, would you want to live in it? In which case, my answer is definitely ‘no’. What’s yours?
Great topic, thanks!
QUOTE (dieubussy @ Mar 15 2008, 05:58 AM) 
Judging from the beautiful graphics crafted by ex-Irrational Games, the feasibility of such a massive setting seems almost… within our grasp. However, like so many other impossible things within Bioshock, the submerse city of Rapture could not have been built at the same time Bobby Darin sang "Beyond the Sea": they had enormous trouble building functional submarines of large proportions as it was, imagine a city so large, with permanent air recycling and electric power distribution placed in a deep and remote part of the sea. Also, the time it would take to build something so complex would implicate that the construction would have begun somewhere in the 40’s – the game is played in 1960, and already the place seems to have suffered the downfall of a few decades. Rapture doesn’t represent a real city, in my point of view; it is an exceptional attempt to create a Utopia – something which breathes idealism and not realism.
As for a project of this sort at the present time, I would say it could be possible on a smaller scale, but it would mean an unthinkable workforce, more than a decade to build, as well as a great amount of human loss. It would be the definite way to survive in case of a deluge of Biblical proportions, but the worst place on earth to inhabit in case of a substantial earthquake. So I think there is absolutely nothing that would justify such an ambitious, risky and essentially redundant venture. Today, architects aim for safe places to live in, which are able to withstand earthquakes, storms and strong winds; not the sort of place where, at times, the only thing keeping you from drowning is a thick glass window.
The main question here is: if such a place did exist, would you want to live in it? In which case, my answer is definitely ‘no’. What’s yours?
Great topic, thanks!
As for a project of this sort at the present time, I would say it could be possible on a smaller scale, but it would mean an unthinkable workforce, more than a decade to build, as well as a great amount of human loss. It would be the definite way to survive in case of a deluge of Biblical proportions, but the worst place on earth to inhabit in case of a substantial earthquake. So I think there is absolutely nothing that would justify such an ambitious, risky and essentially redundant venture. Today, architects aim for safe places to live in, which are able to withstand earthquakes, storms and strong winds; not the sort of place where, at times, the only thing keeping you from drowning is a thick glass window.
The main question here is: if such a place did exist, would you want to live in it? In which case, my answer is definitely ‘no’. What’s yours?
Great topic, thanks!
great Answer dieubussy, I totally agree with everything. Well, honestly I don't know if I'd like to live in an underwater city, it has its pros and cons but in the long run I'd have to say what you said, "no", but I wouldn't mind staying there temporarily, a holiday perhaps, it would be interesting.
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