Currently being built in Abu Dhabi at a price tag of $22 billion, Masdar (which means “the source”) is a six-kilometer walled smart city shaped like two squares that resemble The Borg’s Unicomplex from the sci-fi TV show Star Trek. Set for a target population of 50,000 people, the city promises to be carbon emission-free with 100% renewable energy. Traditional cars are completely out; while walking, biking and mass transit are encouraged. Futuristic driverless ‘personal rapid transit’ (PRT) pod cars are being considered, but are apparently quite costly. The tiny cars look like a smaller version of the little electronic cars featured in the 1980s film Total Recall. As a research and testing ground for smart technologies, The National reported, “The officials running Masdar’s power grid will have access to detailed data on how energy is being used at any given moment and will have the means to directly moderate high rates of consumption to balance supply with demand.” [emphasis added]
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Anonymous2013-11-17 19:41
Arcology, combining "architecture" and "ecology",[1] is a set of architectural design principles for enormous habitats (hyperstructures) of extremely high human population density. These largely hypothetical structures would contain a variety of residential, commercial, and agricultural facilities and minimize individual human environmental impact. They are often portrayed as self-contained or economically self-sufficient.
The concept has been primarily popularized, and the term itself coined, by architect Paolo Soleri, and appears commonly in science fiction.[2]
The largest arcology project under current development is Masdar City near Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. It is projected to house between 45,000 and 50,000 inhabitants on 6 square kilometers, and to have a sustainable, zero-waste, ecology.
Arcosanti is an experimental town under construction in central Arizona. Designed by Paolo Soleri, its primary purpose is to demonstrate principles of arcology.
Many cities in the world have proposed projects adhering to the design principles of the arcology concept, like Tokyo, and Dongtan near Shanghai.[5] The Dongtan project may have collapsed, and it failed to open for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010.[6]
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Anonymous2013-11-17 20:34
6000000 m2 / 45000 = 133m2 per person...
Sounds big huh ^^ but that's a 12x12m box per person... hardly a veggie patch..
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Anonymous2013-11-17 20:37
Can you imagine the land prices?
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Anonymous2013-11-17 20:40
>>10
You're an idiot.
That's a lot of space.
Lrn2build up
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Anonymous2013-11-17 20:52
And that's assuming all land as 'normal' single story private property... =)
Average debt per citizen : $20,000,000,000 / 45000 = $444,444.44
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Anonymous2013-11-17 21:03
World Land Area per Head of Population
149,000,000,000,000m2 / 9,000,000,000 = 16,555m2
133 / 16555 = 0.8%
>>12
Every floor except the top requires Lighting...
That's a lot of power...
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Anonymous2013-11-17 21:09
Doesn't it require more material to build a house that can have ten more stacked on top of it?
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Anonymous2013-11-17 21:18
Doesn't High-Density Population just make any Idiot with a bomb more effective?
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Anonymous2013-11-17 21:21
And trust me, there's a few of them around...
How many? Who knows...
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Anonymous2013-11-17 21:23
Idiots are naturally occuring ^^
How many bombs are there?
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Anonymous2013-11-17 21:26
How can you complain about idiots with bombs, if you make bombs and give them to idiots...
Only idiots want bombs =D
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Anonymous2013-11-17 21:27
It's how they solve idiot problems ^^
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Anonymous2013-11-17 22:34
One man with a bomb is a terrorist...
Ten thousand is a peace-keeping envoy.. ^^
And the Ten Thousand cannot even question their instructions...?
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Anonymous2013-11-17 22:42
Fucking Mindless Terrorists!
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Anonymous2013-11-17 23:11
Battle trance is a term denoting a specific altered state of consciousness that characterizes the psychological state of combatants during a combat situation. In this state, combatants do not feel fear (for this state, Joseph Jordania uses a term "aphobia") or pain (analgesia), and all the individual members of group (unit) are acting as one collective organism. In this state humans lose their individuality and acquire shared collective identity. In a battle trance humans may behave very differently, from extremely altruistically (to the point of sacrificing themselves to save others), to the extremely aggressively (to the point of participating in mass murders). Battle trance affects both men and women and can be induced in individuals as well as groups. Battle trance state may occur involuntarily (for example, mother acting in total disregard of her own safety when her child is suddenly attacked), or can be induced by ritualistic behavior, involving loud rhythmic group singing, stomping and drumming on external subjects, as well as the use of different psychogenic substances.
The biggest area of application of the phenomenon of the battle trance is the military. Psychological strength (sometimes known as morale, or "fighting spirit") of the combatants mostly means that they can go into the state of the battle trance during combat situations. Inducing the battle trance in combatants in order to make them active participants of the action is the central function of the psychological preparation of the combatants. Barbara Ehrenreich wrote: "The difference between an ordinary man or boy and a reliable killer, as any drill sergeant could attest, is profound. A transformation is required: The man or boy leaves his former self behind and becomes something entirely different, perhaps even taking a new name. In small-scale, traditional societies, the change was usually accomplished through ritual drumming, dancing, fasting, and sexual abstinence -- all of which serve to lift a man out of his mundane existence and into a new, warriorlike mode of being, denoted by special body paint, masks, and headdresses".[2] The combat-induced altered state of mind is well known to the participants of military action in all societies, from traditional to contemporary western societies.[3]
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Anonymous2013-11-17 23:31
Here's a question...
How long can a person stay in this sort of state without psychological damage? And how long does boot camp go for? 8 weeks?
You want to shoot someone, shoot the drill sergeant...
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Anonymous2013-11-17 23:38
Biggest Arseholes i've never seen ^^
Are you not responsible for +50% of the deaths in a war?
The leftovers go to the politicians...
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Anonymous2013-11-17 23:47
Soldiers don't have time to doubt their instructions...
So if you don't give them accurate information, they are already compromised...
And who tells the truth these days..?
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Anonymous2013-11-17 23:55
You wonder why most people (or all people) crack at boot camp?
Their in a state of battle trance, but there is no battle....
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Anonymous2013-11-18 0:03
Did you ever pay any compensation for all that brain damage?
And what is a mind worth anyway, if not priceless?
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Anonymous2013-11-18 0:11
What is a life without a mind?
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Anonymous2013-11-18 0:22
Capitalism!
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Anonymous2013-11-18 1:19
How do I battle by mind, a life without?
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Anonymous2013-11-18 1:34
=) It's like fighting a chimp for a banana...
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Anonymous2013-11-18 1:37
but the bananas are guns...
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Anonymous2013-11-18 1:47
Of course chimericans want bananas
The other week i saw a 20-chimp swat team charge into a house with assault rifles over a bag of weed... Very Impressive!
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Anonymous2013-11-18 1:52
*Assault bananas, sorry..
where's David Attenborough when you need him!
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Anonymous2013-11-18 1:56
Weed must be pretty scarce over there huh? ^^
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Anonymous2013-11-18 2:04
Better watch they don't come for your wallet when the money runs out...
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Anonymous2013-11-18 5:56
Hey, you're the one calling me a `Foreigner', and i ain't even left the house, let alone the country...
You're the Fucking Foreigner, Messing with my Computer here....
GTFO