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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 Azuma Hazuki on Friday May 10 2019, @02:25AM (5 children)
Fine by me. I'm gayer than Ellen and Portia on a rainbow biplane and my girlfriend doesn't want children anyway. Snip it! Snip it good.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday May 10 2019, @02:28AM (4 children)
I'm not knocking it. But it will cause a political firestorm of epic proportions if ever proposed.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Friday May 10 2019, @11:08AM (2 children)
I'm starting to have my doubts about political firestorms. They've got everybody turned upside down talking about transgender rights, a vanishingly small percentage of the population, and half convinced to eat insects. If forcing people to eat bugs doesn't trigger a firestorm it's not clear sterilization will.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday May 10 2019, @02:34PM (1 child)
People are apparently getting banned on Twitter for misgendering others (when pronouns are listed in someone's user profile), but I haven't noticed a groundswell of support/activity encouraging eating insects. Maybe a few futurists and news outlets like to talk about it, but millions of Americans aren't thinking about eating insects and are probably unaware of the "benefits".
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday May 10 2019, @04:28PM
Banned for using the wrong pronouns? That is weak.
I'm sure millions of Americans aren't talking about the "benefits" of gender fluidity either, but here we are.
This feels like a moment in which psychohistory will be founded as a discipline. Everything is going off the rails so quickly it should be modeled mathematically.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday May 10 2019, @02:10PM
Some people will be outraged. Others will be supportive.
Another idea for this policy. The taxes to support the UBI for sterilized people are paid by non sterilized people. But it can't be phrased that way. Instead call it, a tax credit for the sterilized people receiving UBI. That further encourages participation in the UBI for sterilization program.
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