The The X-Seed 4000, on the drawing board (but not yet funded, the costs are estimated at up to 900 million dollars) would house up to 1 million souls, in Tokyo Harbor.
An ambitious project, likely never to get started. Even if it were guaranteed environmentally friendly, the screaming from the eco warriors would be deafening. What about the shadow?
Next year the Burj Dubai will be complete, making it the newest top terrorist target in the world…
h/t Hot Air
Comment by happyfeet on 8/26 @ 3:43 am #
The Burj Dubai, that’s really beautiful. People have spent $4B on worse things. One wonders but that they won’t rent the whole thing to foreigners.
The X-Seed leaves me kind of cold, but I guess what’s interesting is that I don’t think I have my head around the economics that would govern development inside. Would all be masterplanned or would there be relatively unregulated commercial zones? Would there be enough freedom for the market in there to adapt and innovate?
Comment by happyfeet on 8/26 @ 9:54 am #
Oh. I think that’s supposed to be 900 billion up there. 900000000000. That’s $900,000 per inhabitant.
And I bet they wouldn’t let you have pets.
Comment by happyfeet on 8/26 @ 9:58 am #
And you could never open a window. That doesn’t seem very Shinto.
Comment by serr8d on 8/26 @ 3:32 pm #
I guess I was thinking in Dan Collins money…
Comment by Darleen on 8/26 @ 4:58 pm #
Hey, am I the only one who read
… and immediately thought Logan’s Run?
TW partitions auto …. jaysus, that thing is creepy
Comment by sherlock on 8/26 @ 6:22 pm #
The TW generator is creeping me out! Hell, I can’t add anything to that!
TW: “navigable suffering”
Comment by Patrick Chester on 8/26 @ 7:48 pm #
Nice of them to use Gojira in the comparison images.
TW: inhabitant self
Comment by Rob Crawford on 8/26 @ 8:32 pm #
Comment by Rob Crawford on 8/26 @ 8:33 pm #
What I thought I had after the quote:
Naw, it makes me think of Todos Santos from Niven & Pournelle’s “Oath of Fealty”.
Comment by Shawn on 8/27 @ 2:50 am #
I thought about Zero Hour’s concept album The Towers of Avarice.
TW: sworn blackrent
Comment by Eric J on 8/27 @ 12:03 pm #
I’ve been wondering, who does Dubai pay off to keep their wonderful playground for the super-rich free of terrorism? That den of sin and Westernism in the heart of the Dar-al-Islam would seem to be a very tempting target, and as far as I know has never been hit.
Comment by Patrick Chester on 8/27 @ 6:00 pm #
Rob: “Think of it as Evolution in Action.”
Comment by otcconan on 8/28 @ 2:37 am #
The weird, angular, non-symmetrical design of Burj Dubai looks suspiciously, and ominously, like the alien Combine architecture of Half-Life 2. If it were dark grey, I’d be very afraid.
Matter of fact, looks a LOT like the “Citadel” from that game.