Thursday, February 24, 2005

Star Wars - The Fifth Element - Blade Runner

Well i was gonna point out that I am influenced by these great films. The utopian future of the Hollywood of yesterday has changed into a more wild and complex hap-hazard future of towering buildings floating traffic and pollution. They usually show massive populations living closely together too. Maybe that's because there isn't any room to expand outward anymore, and cities just go higher and higher. I propose they go lower and lower, or into instead. An ideal future world would have manufacturing, offices, schools, , most houses, apartments, and transportation depots go underground for starters. Then fire and police, gas stations, retail shopping, hospitals and restaurants can be on top like they are already, although with a much lower profile. Most roads will be sunken to reduce their visual profile, dampen the noise from the cars and keep crashes from throwing you end over end until you hit a pole or something. Or elevated for highways in rural countrysides, so that farmers and animals would be more free to move about. Not sure how affective this is. I like the idea of floating traffic bc you wouldn't need all these strips of cement and asphalt, millions of miles of them, anymore. I thought that cars could all have a negatively charged field around them. The closer any other car gets to yours the more they repel each other. In heavy traffic it would get easier to stear kindof, you know if everybody kept moving forward at about the same speed the cars would act a little like the blood platlets in your viens with too much Plavix and Aspirin added. If most of the cars were little two seaters like the old Volkswagen Bug, that would be best. Combining the repelling affect of opposing magnets on cars and the ability for them to float would be GREAT! Just put up a 20 foot high chain link fence that also magnetically repels the cars, and things can move along with ZERO friction. If narrowed down to one lane, you could float 15 feet over fields of corn without having to steer much


Mark j

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