4. Protection From Cataclysmic Events
Ever daydream about an asteroid hitting our planet and being one of Earth’s last ‘survivors’? Let’s say a giant asteroid hits the Earth one day: it wasn’t enough to produce a significant shockwave, but the dust from the impact begins clouding our atmosphere. What do we do for food now that the sun is gone? Life underwater would probably survive a lot longer than life on land.
The reason is because of the underwater power generation methods available to us. Seaweed is known to depend on sunlight to go through photosynthesis. However, if we were to use the underwater buoys to power lights that could support seaweed; we’d virtually have an unlimited supply of food (given that the algae and seaweed have enough time to grow). Water could also be easily purified as the city is pretty much covered in it. Humans could literally ‘wait’ the atmospheric dust off.
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i dig this. the only thing i’d be afraid of would be the ridiculous cost of building an entire underwater city. however, with a good amount of research and a crap-ton of funding, i believe this could be a possibility in the future.
Thanks man! Yeah, the beaurocracies that run the world would prevent us from ultimately building Rapture. Perhaps some time in the future, we’ll be able to overcome our differences.
I think it’s debatable to say that Rapture failed because of drug addiction. It could be argued that the whole premise that the city was set up on, unfettered capitalism with no capacity to help anybody who fell through the net. The idea that the market is the sole judge of morality and ethics. Even if the plasmids had not been created, I think the society would have collapsed anyway.
I agree; now that you mention it, I remember the whole reason Rapture fell apart was because of the lack of ethics and morality which influenced the creation of plasmids. Thank you!