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"We are coming to a point in our history in which we need to start looking for more space," Han Admiraal, a civil engineer with over two decades of experience in underground space, told AFP on the sidelines of this year's World Tunnel Congress.
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"Underground spaces could easily be used for growing crops," he said, as he toured the cavernous Bourbon Tunnel, dug deep under the Italian city of Naples as a potential escape route for King Ferdinand II of Bourbon after the 1848 riots.Scientific developments in areas like aquaponics—where vegetables and fish are farmed together—could help relieve the pressure on the food supply chain, and dramatically cut transport costs if such new farms were situated under cities.
Isn't excavation expensive?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday May 10 2019, @01:14AM (5 children)
When you sterilize the 99%, who are going to serve the 1%'s children?
Maybe after the robot revolution comes they'll make that play, but until then somebody has to grow the food, cook the food, take out the garbage, tend the mansion, crew the yacht, etc.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by JNCF on Friday May 10 2019, @01:52AM (4 children)
Related question: after the 0.1% kill the rest of us in The Great Drone Purge of 2021 how many generations will it take before the wealth distribution comes back around to the current status quo?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @07:01AM (2 children)
This cycle repeats about every 14k years.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday May 10 2019, @01:19PM
That's a fantasy story... in real life it happens much faster.
So say we all.
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday May 10 2019, @01:41PM
Yes. We're at the C.H.U.D. [wikipedia.org] phase.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 5, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Friday May 10 2019, @01:15PM
Remember the wise old owl from the Tootsie Pop commercial?
Three.
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