Spirit Bomb
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Post by Spirit Bomb on Jan 11, 2019 16:33:23 GMT
Picture this: What if all powerlines ran underground and instead of driving around on roads everyone owned mini-airships for transportation? (blimps that could carry the same number of passengers as a car or SUV) Benefits this would bring for the planet: -roads wouldn't exist, meaning that all roads, highways, and freeways would be replaced by native flora (forest, grasslands, wetlands, etc.) -no more roadkill -because most impermeable surface wouldn't exist, there would be much less albedo effect and runoff -other stuff? Thoughts on this? Personally, this would be a dream come true for me, mostly because I have ALWAYS dreamed of flying, but also because of the benefits it would have for the environment. Please discuss.  |
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Dan E. Kool
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Post by Dan E. Kool on Jan 11, 2019 17:09:04 GMT
I dunno. Blade Runner has flying cars and L.A. doesn't look any cleaner in their universe. Also:
- Wouldn't roadkill just be replaced with airkill? Like birds?
- Wouldn't you still need pavement for walking, bicycling? Friendly games of street basketball?
- Without roads, you have no street food anymore. Seems like a bad trade-off.
- Where will the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live when all the sewers are covered in grass? Think of the increase in crime rates.
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Spirit Bomb
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Post by Spirit Bomb on Jan 11, 2019 17:23:16 GMT
I dunno. Blade Runner has flying cars and L.A. doesn't look any cleaner in their universe. Also: - Wouldn't roadkill just be replaced with airkill? Like birds? - Wouldn't you still need pavement for walking, bicycling? Friendly games of street basketball? - Without roads, you have no street food anymore. Seems like a bad trade-off. - Where will the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live when all the sewers are covered in grass? Think of the increase in crime rates. -Considering blimps only travel at around 20 mph and have much smaller propellers than planes or wind turbines, birds would have no trouble avoiding them -It's not like ALL impermeable surfaces would be gone. Villages, towns, and cities would still be around, just not the highways that connect them. -I could live without that. Most street food is unhealthy anyways. -Now you're just wasting my time, Dan. |
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cobretti
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Post by cobretti on Jan 11, 2019 17:52:43 GMT
I can’t imagine a world without sick street hoop mix tapes and dirty water hotdogs prepared by the street. I reuse to imagine it!
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Dlotn
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Post by Dlotn on Jan 11, 2019 20:24:13 GMT
Sounds cool, but I wouldn't really like to take twice the ammount of time to travel somewhere though....
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stratogustav
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Post by stratogustav on Jan 11, 2019 22:13:11 GMT
- Where will the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live when all the sewers are covered in grass? Think of the increase in crime rates. This ^^^. Although, Dubai, Qatar, and Abu Dabi already have flying Ubers, they have had them for or a couple of years already. They seem to work there just fine. |
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Balder
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Post by Balder on Jan 12, 2019 0:29:45 GMT
Sounds cool, but I wouldn't really like to take twice the ammount of time to travel somewhere though.... Twice? You'd be lucky to get anywhere in double the time. We're talking about blimps here. Takes longer to board and stop a blimp than to pull over with a car. This is such an impractical reality that it's ridiculous to even imagine. |
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scipioafricanus
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Post by scipioafricanus on Jan 12, 2019 2:22:44 GMT
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centipede
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Post by centipede on Jan 12, 2019 2:25:20 GMT
- Wouldn't roadkill just be replaced with airkill? Like birds? - Wouldn't you still need pavement for walking, bicycling? Friendly games of street basketball? - Without roads, you have no street food anymore. Seems like a bad trade-off. - Where will the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live when all the sewers are covered in grass? Think of the increase in crime rates. - Yes, plants need birds to spread seeds like how they also need bees to spread pollen from flower to flower. - You could still have areas set aside, providing the sprawl doesn't engulf them - Maybe they could be on rooftops.They could have thin towers with an elevator going up and down to different stalls lol - They'd run a pizza shop and they would launch themselves with a giant handgun like the Samurai Pizza Cats |
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centipede
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Post by centipede on Jan 12, 2019 2:27:16 GMT
Many childhoods were ruined that day. Not mine, fortunately. |
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Cervantes
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Post by Cervantes on Jan 13, 2019 7:55:27 GMT
Mad Max. We would have no Mad Max.
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Dan E. Kool
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Post by Dan E. Kool on Jan 13, 2019 17:09:41 GMT
And if we're restricted to blimps, pizza will always be cold by the time it's delivered.
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Balder
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Post by Balder on Jan 13, 2019 17:22:14 GMT
And if we're restricted to blimps, pizza will always be cold by the time it's delivered. The pizzas dammit, why won't anyone think of the pizzas. |
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Armored Core Raven
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Post by Armored Core Raven on Jan 13, 2019 17:38:53 GMT
Humans can't be trusted to drive responsibly on the ground even after over a 100 years of the car being a thing and literally entire nations having been built up around the car as the pivotal key component of their society, and you want to grant these glorified apes full access to the skies?
I say ban cars entirely and force humans to use their legs only until they evolve some sort of rudimentary brain first.
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Spirit Bomb
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Post by Spirit Bomb on Jan 14, 2019 5:32:59 GMT
- Where will the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live when all the sewers are covered in grass? Think of the increase in crime rates. This ^^^. Although, Dubai, Qatar, and Abu Dabi already have flying Ubers, they have had them for or a couple of years already. They seem to work there just fine. There's no way that those are anywhere near as green as a small blimp, since blimp don't require propellers for lift like those do. |
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