![]() ![]() Imagine an upside-down Frisbee shape with walls roughly 100m tall and a diameter of two or three kilometers. ![]() Use the struts and glue to make large structures out of "octet" truss (space-filling tessellation of octahedrons and tetrahedrons) and just float on top of the water. In any event, syngas is pretty useful stuff.) (I have some ideas on that but they're even nuttier. Now you need a way to convert the syngas to struts and glue. Plastic is converted to synthesis gas ("a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide"). You collect the salt, melt it, use that to oxidize the GPGP trash. That's a lot of carbon floating on hydrogen and oxygen and salt. You start with the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. (IANAEngineer or anything like that, just a weirdo on the Internet.) ![]() I have no actual idea if this is possible or not. The outer edge would buffer storms and high seas. But really fractal/crinkly, so there's lots and lots of coastline on the "interior" of the island. Yeah, I wouldn't try to hold back the ocean, I mean more like a floating island the size of Texas or so. We could construct an artificial continent in the Pacific Ocean with a nice crinkly coastline and everyone could live at the beach. (Yukon is one of the least populated but still nice places on Earth. I sure am glad we're not mice!īetween Kowloon and the Yukon there's a sweet spot of population density. By 1990, the walled city contained 50,000 residents within its 2.6-hectare (6.4-acre) borders.įortunately, it was razed. Its population increased dramatically following the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. Originally a Chinese military fort, the walled city became an enclave after the New Territories were leased to the United Kingdom by China in 1898. > Kowloon Walled City was an ungoverned and densely populated de jure Imperial Chinese enclave within the boundaries of Kowloon City, British Hong Kong. There's also a video that further explains the experiment.I saw a documentary about Kowloon Walled City. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, which was later made into a movie called The Secret of NIMH, at Atlas Obscura. Read about Calhoun’s experiments and how he inspired a book called Ms. They couldn't have known the truth: that within a few years, they and their descendants would all be dead.Ĭalhoun saw the results of this population growth experiment echo his earlier, smaller mouse utopias. They must have thought they were the luckiest mice in the world. The residents of Universe 25 were mostly left alone, save for one man who would peer at them from above, and his team of similarly interested assistants. It's even better than your average lab mouse's, which is constantly interrupted by white-coated humans with scalpels or syringes. This is a far cry from a wild mouse's life-no cats, no traps, no long winters. They thrived quickly due to the many amenities: plenty of food and water, nesting boxes, room to run, and most important for a mouse, safety from predators. His largest experiment was a room sized mouse universe in which he placed eight mice in 1968. Now he had space and resources to build mouse utopias. He had spent years already studying the behavior of groups of mice kept in captivity. John Bumpass Calhoun was a researcher at the the National Institute of Mental Health beginning in 1954. ![]()
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