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SvennoJ said:
J_Allard said:
osed125 said:

According to this guy, building a Rapture is somewhat possible even in the 50's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf3TCNjyshc

Eh not really, he says the tubes and stuff might have been possible at that time but there's no way the buildings and everything survive the pressure at that depth. So basically all the little tube hallways you run around would survive but everything else would quickly wither away into nothing.

You can always work with compressed air environments underwater, sucks when you want to return to the surface though.

Buckinster Fuller designed cloud nine in the 60's, a flying city built on a giant geodesic sphere. 1 degree difference in air temperature inside and outside the sphere would be enough to lift a city for 6000 people

Much more efficient then magnetics.

How about kind of combining the two? A underwater city placed in a giant sphere? That way building could be constructed in regular fassion with only the outside sphere having to deal with the pressures?