2250 AD: A Nautical Odyssey

Posted by Hemos on Monday September 20, 2004 @02:22AM from the thinking-about-the-future dept.

desoumal writes " In the blog 2250 AD: A Nautical Odyssey published in WorldChanging, which covers a recent challenge presented to the student teams from 80 Indian colleges that entered in NASA '04 (National Association of Students of Architecture's annual design event), held in Mumbai, India, by Hiray College Of Architecture, Rohit Gupta writes about the highlights of the event - a city based on a giant question mark, a city inside a giant genetically-modified tree trunk, cities that grow like viruses, cities that look and function like holes made by earthworms... my personal favorite amongst them being a city with a photovoltaic dome 'designed so that it literally followed the path of the sun round the year, to maximize the solar energy, down to individual housing units'. Damn cool. "

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Ouch! by CommanderData · 2004-09-20 02:23 · Score: 5, Funny

My brain hurts from reading that incredible run-on sentence summary. Remember boys and girls, the period is your friend. Read on for even more punctuation pointers!

It is ironic that one of the proposed structures (see the picture in TFA) is a giant city-structure in the shape of a question mark!

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1. Re:Ouch! by tomee · 2004-09-20 02:31 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I, at this point, having read (and reread) the sentence that you, in your post, which I am replying to, mentioned, agree.
Here's what I'd do by sizzzzlerz · 2004-09-20 02:30 · Score: 5, Funny

I'd build a city that floats on clouds. It would be called, oh, lets say Stratus. We'd enslave those who remained on the earth to mine the minerals we would need to survive (always a good idea).

Oh, and the women would wear these top thingies that looked like the bandoliers on Mexican bandits.