Spiraling Skyscraper Farms For a Future Manhattan 403
Mike writes "One of three finalists in this year's Evolo Skyscraper Competition, Eric Vergne's Dystopian Farm project envisions a future New York City interspersed with elegantly spiraling skyscraper farms. The biomorphic structures harness cutting-edge technology to provide the city with its own self-sustaining food source while dynamically altering the fabric of city life."
Gives a whole new meaning... (Score:1, Funny)
to 'eat me out of house and home!'
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The design is apparently "gigantic opened up hornets nest", and it looks like finding a level surface to put a chair on might be difficult.
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Give him a small break, the plans do indicate using aeroponics.
So instead of tons of dirt & water, the building only needs a 90% humidity level.
Just imagine the mold on your servers.
silithid (Score:5, Funny)
Looks like something the silithid [wowwiki.com] might build. I'm thinking the cenarion circle is going to ask me to go there and hack up 15 searchers, 20 tunnelers, and return with 5 egg sacks for study.
kids today (Score:3, Funny)
Everyone thinks "kids today" are bad... You know what? they're not. They're just as dumb as their parents were at that age. I know I did plenty of stupid stuff when I was young....
Plenty of kids today are bright and creative, and now have outlets for that creativity thanks to our wonderful information age.
So go stick in your craw Gramps.
-T
Bees (Score:5, Funny)
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> You forgot to mention that it's "not even a Mother Earth could love it" ugly.
Fixed it for you.
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Ah architecture school.. (Score:4, Funny)
the last resort of art school and engineering school dropouts.
Silly person. (Score:3, Funny)
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Tons of soil weigh alot? By my calculations it should only weigh a few tons..
Maybe it's dark matter soil--then each ton would weigh over 10000 tons.
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unless someone finds a way to regulate the human birth rate.
That's easy, just give everyone a Slashdot account.
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Re:silithid (Score:3, Funny)
And then the same treehugger will send you back to the same place to kill swarmers until they drop 5 legs which will take an average of 40 kills (even though every swarmer has at least 6 legs). And of course as swarmers are tightly packed with the mobs you mention you'll have to kill them too.
When you finally get back, you will be asked to rescue some retarded night elf chick or some moronic dwarf in the lair of the biggest hive killing all those mobs again. The reward is an item of very small to no value.
Then you realize that there is another "!" above some other treehugers head and the cow^H tauren gives a quest to follow the previous mentioned NE chick or the same dwarf which means going there killing tens of those same mobs, following and guarding the npc, and probably dying in the process, by the time all the mobs respawn.
After you finally get back to the npc, and start the escort quest again you get ambushed by some 12 year old child playing a rogue and you die because you were playing a human warlock in wow 1.3
God I miss those days.
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Exactly. "Elegant"?
I can't imagine by what standards. It looks like some Lovecraftian worm creature emerging from the depth in a horror movie. :P