#Mouse utopia experiment was right free

All of the air on the Western side of a floating structure would impinge on the height that the whole thing extends above the sea, turning it into a gigantic sail.

Then there is the problem of anchoring your structure.

#Mouse utopia experiment was right free

That's approximately 15 tonnes and I have no idea how much force it would require to break them free from their surroundings. These are used to reinforce the piers near IJmuiden, where I used to live and the force of the impact of the water will dislodge those blocks from the asphalt in which they are embedded and throw them over or onto the pier itself.

That's what left after the impact of a 2x2x2 meter concrete block. One of the problems is that moving water is incredibly destructive, I've seen 8 cubic meter concrete blocks thrown about like confetti during a bad storm at the coast, and that's nothing compared to what you have to deal with on the open ocean. The sea is a formidable enemy for anything that you intended to float on top of it, in the longer term if you don't sidestep the problem you'll end up with your structure as a submersible. What you are talking about is many, many orders of magnitude more complex, both from a materials science perspective as well as the engineering itself. But even something supported by piers would be an amazing feat of engineering by our current standards, even a typical drilling platform that is embedded in the continental shelf is - up close - something to behold. Otherwise sooner or later your structure will meet that one wave that it can't deal with and then it's game over. I think you'd be better off building something like that above the ocean with the whole thing supported by piers anchored very deep. Really the main motive would be to perform a kind of stunt just to get people to realize that we can build very large structures now. 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. I saw a documentary about Kowloon Walled City.