🧵 Feasibility of Ocean Surface or Floor Human Settlement?
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 02:47:07 UTC No. 16624709
Oceanix Busan represents a groundbreaking approach to sustainable urban development in the face of rising sea levels and climate change. This innovative project, a collaboration between Oceanix, UN-Habitat, and the city of Busan, South Korea, aims to create the world's first prototype of a resilient and sustainable floating community.
The project was unveiled in April 2022 at the Second UN Roundtable on Sustainable Floating Cities. Designed to accommodate 12,000 residents initially, Oceanix Busan will consist of interconnected floating platforms covering 6.3 hectares (15.5 acres) off the coast of Busan. The design features three distinct neighborhoods for living, research, and lodging, with the potential to expand to house over 100,000 people in the future.
The potential for scaling this concept globally is significant. As coastal cities worldwide face increasing threats from rising sea levels, Oceanix Busan serves as a prototype for future floating city initiatives.
>floating platforms made of flexible concrete and 'biorock' tethered to the seafloor
Seems vulnerable to rapid changes in sea level but could withstand gradual change
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 03:08:44 UTC No. 16624724
>no replies here either
Am I shadowbanned or something? Can't be because I get some replies
idk
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 03:10:45 UTC No. 16624726
>>16624724
no anon I just don't care about this because they've been talking about this floating city shit for 20 years and they won't build it
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 03:29:16 UTC No. 16624731
>>16624726
i guess that's fair
well, have a good evening everyone
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:32:21 UTC No. 16624843
>>16624709
first of all the habitat needs to be designed to survive extreme sea states, meaning a semi-submersible like an oil rig or something else that won't break, flip over or kill its inhabitants. Second you need the inhabitants to have some kind of jobs and they will also need significant infrastructure for electricity, water, food and supplies, which also necessitates a port.
don't just say blue water aquaculture. because that has barely been tested as a prototype.
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:45:19 UTC No. 16624850
>>16624709
It's a retarded meme.
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:46:04 UTC No. 16624851
>>16624709
and you will be happy
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:48:38 UTC No. 16624853
to continue the closest things to floating cities are the pier towns in the rivers of southeast asia. Yes they have floating markets, but the river is very calm and rivers are natural paths of transportation from inland to the ocean AND boats are an extremely efficient way to move tons of goods that can be moved by a 4ft 10in Cambodian grandmother with an 11ft pole.
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:57:42 UTC No. 16624859
While the oceans are larger than the Earth's land masses, there's no shortage of clay to build upon. Most of "there's no land" problems are due to people wanting to live like insects in hive cities. Even countries like Japan have plenty of space outside of cities to build on. Maybe in places like Tokyo where everyone has gone insane clustering together, it could be economically viable to build housing under the water but even then they'd be better off building up as much of Tokyo is low density housing.
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:14:06 UTC No. 16624872
>>16624709
>sustainable
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:18:26 UTC No. 16624874
>>16624859
Agree with this man. Cities do not appear just out of architectural concept. There's usually political or trade reason for them.
Artificial cities like Dubai demand lots of energy to sustain them.
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:27:50 UTC No. 16624882
>>16624709
Homer Simpson Water world fantasy
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:32:56 UTC No. 16625318
>>16624709
If you're just looking for some /sci/ pron on the topic, several episodes of 'SeaQuest DSV' had underwater cities.