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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 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.