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Tethered Island
Published: 2008-03-17 06:13:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 37624; Favourites: 1385; Downloads: 0
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oh wow, this is amazing. Funny im making a utopia and it was going to look something like this but I guess to got to it first... grrrr
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This is really beautiful. The idea is quite lovely. Reminds me of Macross Frontier.
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Beautiful concept. I can imagine the culture of privilege and division that keeps a place like this going. Who maintains the ground tether? Probably not the ones dwelling in the domes. Thanks for a wonderful piece of art.
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I'm rather enjoying this. May borrow the concept, if that's okay that is.
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Interesting concept.
Would those things contain examples of every envirnment on Earth? Like deserts, coastlines, meadows and stuff?
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Nice, but small and pixelated. Do you have a large version? If so, why not share that?
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There any possibility of you releasing this in a larger resolution, maybe for wallpaper purposes, and to gawk at?
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Now THIS is what I'm talking about. We could put all of the animals and birds in these to prevent them from dying off!
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this is CLEARLY the wat to dealwith overpopulation/overcrowding. lets top wasteing money on war and weapons and spend it all on teathered islands! as long as i get my own private one
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great concept, and probably even possible with the right technology
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I can actually see this happening in the far far far distant future. Awesome job on this
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This is along the lines of things I've been thinking about lately.
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Epic! Makes me want to watch Gundam Seed, though.
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That'll cost much more than a bomb to construct one in RL. I'll estimate it to cost around USD$4-7 trillion from concept to finished construction of ONE island, in current currencies (could cost MUCH more), and might take 30+ years to construct.
It looked awesome nonetheless.
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Very cool. The thing is, the technology for doing something like this is being developed as we speak. They're working on a space elevator and this seems to be the natural progression of that. Very nicely done.
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Nanocarbon fibres FTW!
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I saw an article about some guys that are working on a prototype to test. Not full scale but enough to prove the concept. The fibers made of the carbon nanontubes are so strong that (according to what I've read, I'm not an engineer) a cable one inch in diameter is all you'd need to run the elevator up to space. Strong stuff.
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Its true lol, but a tiny friction is all it need to fail. The tube is physically designed for strong tension only on the ends of the tube and the collective link-between-atoms-thingy ALONG the tube, not on individual atoms itself. It means that, you knock just ONE atom out of the entire length of the nanotube, and the tube will lost 30% of its vertical tension strength (if its vertical like the space elevator).
Considering the counterweight satelitte in space with hundreds, even thousands of tons of weight, they practically need more than just one inch of nanocarbon fibres. Maybe several inches, or maybe even several metres of them in diameter.
I still believe in space elevators though, they're physically and technically possible from the current laws of physics.
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One thing you have to remember is that it will be a multi-strand cable so there will be strength in numbers just like they make bridge cable. I'm sure they've taken that into account. I'm sure the cable will be somewhat larger for safety but the stuff is incredibly strong.
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Wow! It's great to see a refreshing blend of outside-the-box creativity and sci-fi. ¦3
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Wow...such an amazing job you did here. Very cool.
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Hmm. In a future where the entire world is covered in buildings, and has a terrible environment, rich people can buy their own mini places that don't suck? That's a good idea.
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reminds me of the "Flight of the Navigator" ship in that movie.
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what a great idea, very original.. reminds me of the whole space elevator project... well made
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Bad a**, dude. Very beautiful imagination.
:fav+: ^_^
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I love this. Have you ever played the free browser-based MMOG called "Pardus"? The Space Farms you can build in that game look similar to the structures seen in this piece of art.
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