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  • #16
    The Dominion of Human resources is highly interested in the construction of multiple arcologies.

    OOC: Everyone say it with me now....da Ministry of Truth, da Ministry of Luv, da Ministry of Peace and da Ministry of Pleny!
    Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
    -Richard Dawkins

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    • #17
      Even when you build them in the core of your country, you cannot avoid long range ballistic and cruise missiles. What's even more worrying are terrorist attacks. If you think World Trade Centre was bad, these things are disasters waiting to happen, with unimaginable consequences. You will not have enough emergency facilities to deal with one.

      Please, think of the people.
      (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
      (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
      (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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      • #18
        People are irrelevant in pursuit of the Greater Construct of Eternal Paradigms.
        Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
        -Richard Dawkins

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        • #19
          Well when you run out of land for people what are you to do?? You have to put them somewhere. You could design a arco that could withstand many of the threats you listed, or give enough time to evacuate the people inside.
          Donate to the American Red Cross.
          Computer Science or Engineering Student? Compete in the Microsoft Imagine Cup today!.

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          • #20
            Our towers are far more vunerable to attack than an arcology would be.

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            • #21
              I warn you. The AI zombified SU will make quick work of your arcologies.
              urgh.NSFW

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              • #22
                I agree with this issue. Although my nation, the FTR, has no population havoc, there is nothing wrong in prevention.
                Furthermore, Arcologies are not only a good choice for overpopulated areas, but a very good choice when you are experiencing ecological troubles due to population. Sometimes is good to keep your people is concealed areas than to have it scattered in wide areas of space.

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                • #23
                  The Empire of Drunken Macaque sees that this technology could quickly become necessary. Already our population has almost doubled in the past 3 days (from 4M to 7M). Although it will be some time before these arcologies will be necessary, it will also be some time before they are researched sufficiently to begin construction. We say, start researching them now!
                  I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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                  • #24
                    These are the worries of ocean-locked nations. Real nations use landgrab to solve this problem

                    in the last 4 days, we've grown from 30 million to 67 million.
                    urgh.NSFW

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                    • #25
                      But the overpopulation would also become a problem for not-so-land-gifted nation, like the case of the FTR, in which a notorious amount of territory is occupied by inhospitable mountains. The population has been rapidly growing in the few considerably fertile areas and in the capital city.

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                      • #26
                        We like the concept and the People's Republic Of East Yorkshire is embarking on the arcological construction shown in the picture below. It requires a great expenditure on behalf of the central government, but we believe that if successful it will put us at the front of such engineering, and will bring in more money to our nation than the initial cost. Such a construction will be completed by 2015, even with a substantial civil engineering team.
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                        Speaking of Erith:

                        "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                        • #27
                          amazing concept, PREY, but I can't afford it now. I wouldn't be able to afford the increased military expenditure if I'd build that.
                          urgh.NSFW

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                          • #28
                            I'm In. My nation is a couple volcanic rocks about the size of Iceland, and covered with protected forests. If we go out we will harm the enviroment of our luxurious forests, so going up is a logical alternative. The Raganarok parliment has already set up a task force to plan several Arcos within the next 20 years and our combined knoledge will really speed up that process. The People's Republic of Raganarok is renouned for the very stong Raganian Steel, one of the few materials strong enough to resist a terrorist attack. Raganian Steel is a special alloy of Iron, Magnesium, Titanium, Wolfram, (Tungsten) Chromium, and Cerium that is strong, yet has a high tensile stength.

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                            • #29
                              The FTR gave green light for the construction of the Hyper Building, a megametropolitan complex, in the western areas of the capital city of Adranor.
                              It is not yet clear how long will the project take, but estimations throw results quite satisfactory.

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                              • #30
                                SWEET ARCO!!!

                                We have started constuction of a 220 story building with 10 times the space of the PETRONAS Towers. (It is also very wide.) It will house 30,000 people.

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