*cough cough*

[unixronin]

So, it seems the History Channel held a "City of the Future" contest, challenging eight architectural firms to show their visions of the San Francisco of 2108.  C|Net has a pictorial.

I can't remember the last time I saw such pretentious pie-in-the-sky "and then magic happens" bullshit posing as architectural design.  I think the winning design firm thought they were supposed to be submitting concepts for an SF movie set in the San Francisco of 3108 AD.  It'd sure make me think twice about hiring them to design anything for me.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Off planet population migration could probably be done now. Just catapult people into the sun.

What, a dozen a month? Maybe a dozen a week, if we got all the different launch facilities working at it full time? And that's just to LEO. You'd have to have a lot more delta-V to drop people into the Sun. The problem with the Marching Morons scenario is that if you have the resources to do it, you have the resources to implement much better solutions.

[johnkzin.livejournal.com]

No, no, I didn't say "launch them into the sun on space vehicles". I said "_catapult_ them into the sun". :-)


We just need better catapult technology.