Part 59: Story: Cool Dad Is Back!
Cool Dad Is Back!
When Joe tries to slap you on the back, duck.
And no, I'm not going to Google and see if DJ Like and DJ Subscribe are real pop artists.
Tombot posted:
Maybe Sun Haotian is just a shell company for Andrew Ryan.
TooMuchAbstraction posted:
I guess a submerged city also has room for six-way intersections. Maybe site it near a volcanic vent for geothermal energy? Still going to be hellaciously expensive, but maybe not as expensive as a spaceship would be.
paragon1 posted:
What if it's not next to the ocean? What if it's IN the ocean?
OK, hang on. A submerged city would explain the deep-sea stuff, but I can see some issues with it:
• The whole nitrogen-and-the-bends thing. Wouldn't the residents of an underwater city be subject to that?
• If your containment shell (outer dome) fails, everyone dies horribly. If your air supply machinery fails, everyone dies horribly. I can think of a few other scenarios of similar issue.
• Why go to the trouble of putting a whole city deep underwater when you could find a nice stretch of continental shelf?
• Why build a submerged city big enough to use cars? Could you really support everyone just from those aquaponics modules I whipped up?
• Basically, I'm not sure what the benefit of putting it all underwater would be. It sounds cool, but in practice...
Junpei posted:
What if it's just a city that floats on top of the water?
That could work. There's a lot of unused space in the oceans, and there's not the issue of the immediate fail conditions that underwater city-dwelling would have... it still boggles the mind. One stumbling block, though - what about fresh water? You'd need a lot of energy to run desalination constantly, and a city would NEED a lot of fresh water. (While we're on the subject, I once read an article that pointed out that almost every city on Earth has been founded around water sources!)
ashnjack posted:
I still think this whole thing is for an automated military sea base.
It explains the hardened electronics and the hydroponics are for self sufficient operation of the few humans in charge.
I can see a lot of the automation implying a lower population. If it were a military project, though, wouldn't we be talking to representatives of China's military etc. instead? Mr. Haotian is pretty powerful, but he's more CEO than general. And if you put a military base out on the ocean, you'd better have something out there worth guarding. The Pacific Ocean is a big place, and most of it is fairly uninteresting.
The_White_Crane posted:
I'm gonna have to rewatch the early seasons of Get The Throne. I'd forgotten all about the Dwarf Rebellion!
I remember, the v1 releases of the fansubs I used were off, because the translators couldn't believe it was really a rebellion of dwarves, so it got rendered as "small uprising", which had the wonderful effect of making all the dialogue in the council scenes seem really understated.
"Your Majesty, dire news! There is a small uprising!"
It sounds like those subtitles had a little problem...
