2250 AD: A Nautical Odyssey

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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Re:Free GMAIL Invites

[Anonymous Coward]

Take a close look at the URL *before* you click - those are not gmail invites but penisbird trolls.

How fscking lame.

Re:Ouch!

[robslimo]

I tried editting it a little for readability. Still didn't make any sense to me.

Then I clicked the first link and, viola!

"Create a foundation for a perfect world in the next century (2250 A.D.) that would sustain life and habitat in the future but would not interfere in the surrounding eco-system. The structure should have basic functional areas catering to 5000 families."

Perhaps if that description of the challenge had been in the article summary...

Re:Tree trunk

[FooAtWFU]

cities that grow like viruses, cities that look and function like holes made by earthworms

Last I checked, viruses weren't really alive (they're borderline) and they don't grow. Instead, they infect cells and force the cells to produce more of them- generally wrecking the cell in the process.