Could Earth ever become Coruscant?

I think that we will keep building and building as the population continues to grow, but I don't think it'll become anything as huge as Coruscant.

 

There is a good reason to live forever huh?

 

No I don't think so since most of the Earth is water. Even if it was possible, humankind will destroy the Earth by then.

 

Could it happen? Possibly. It will be a long time before it ever does. We have the food and resources problem although we could learn to grow plants indoors under artificial lights. We wouldn't necessarily have to import.

Would it be cool? Yup.

Would I want to live there? No way in hell.

 

NO!! it won't happen



SAVE the whales!!

 

It's possible that the Earth may end up looking like Coruscant in some respects. I doubt that anyone would foot the expense of building skyscrapers over water. The foundations would have to be several thousand feet in some areas.

Humans also have a desire for green space, so parks would have to be installed somewhere, either at the base of the buildings or on their roofs or in them. There are a few designs already in the works: Tokyo's Sky City and Pyramid City. While nothing like the buildings seen on Coruscant, they are pretty tall, house a lot of people, but leave a lot of open space. That might be what the future holds, not a giant metropolis so tall, that no light reaches the bottom anymore.

 

I love Sky City

 

I would much have a giant moon city. There are no plants, trees, animals, or life of any kind on the moon.

It would require many trillions of dollars and take at least 100 years to complete.

Unfortunately, with the lack of air, a gigantic bubble would have to be buit around the entire lunar surface (with openings for ships). This would be at the bulk of the cost. Once sufficient oxygen has been circulated, begin terraforming and all that stuff.

Start a small village. Slowly, more people will come and it will be a town. Than a city, and eventually a metropolis. 50 more years and about half the moon is populated.

 

Yes, I can see it now. Humans in the future will spend billions of dollars and hundreds of years building a large connecting city across the Earth. Millions will die in the construction, and thousands of species will die from extinction.

People who support nature will retaliate and start their own Rebellion. Before long, a war will break out, but humans will keep on building.

Then, hundreds and hundreds of years from now, we will finish. Hundreds of millions will be dead from the construction and from the war, and billions of dollars that would be needed to help the poor and cure diseases will have been lost.

A huge plague will break out, and there will simply not be enough money to find a cure, because doctors and lawyers will be the most powerful people on the planet by then, and will demand billions of dollars in down payment so they can buy that nice condo in the Carribean while thousands of people will die.

People will begin to starve from a large decline in available food and water.

But finally, people will get through these hundreds of years of hardships and "dark ages" and marvel at their planet-wide city, and everyone will finally be at peace and at joy.

And then a huge asteroid will hit Earth and everyone will die. The end.

 

these are the ideas people come up with in summer time

hopefully trees will always be here. not to be a tree hugger. but trees are very climbable.

yes coruscant on earth would stink.

 

But after the trees die no more oxygen produced.

 

Yes, a large galactic freeway will be built.

Just make sure I'm killed in the process. I do not want to have stomach a single verse of Gorgon poetry.

 

A large majority of O2 is generated by phytoplankton in the oceans. Forests are more local supplementors to the supply.

Still, overbuilding would drive many species to extinction. Large areas would have to be designated as not for building. It should be relatively easy to do that: don't build in areas that are highly prone to natural disasters that might threaten the stability of a GIANT skyscraper complex. I'm talking volcanoes, earthquakes and landslides. It's pretty much common sense not to build on or near an active or dormant volcano, but people do it anyway. Earthquakes won't do much damage at ground level, but the upper floors will be waving like grass in the wind unless some better form of reinforcement is used than current technology can supply. Landslides are less of a problem, but watch out if there isn't any bedrock within a given depth. That's why there isn't a single skyscraper in certain areas of NYC: there isn't any shallow bedrock to drill into for the foundation supports.

 

Your setting your sights too high just for now.

Let's see if we can make Earth a Croissant.

Hmmm, I love croissants.

 

I don't think Earth could become Coruscant. The licensing fees Lucasfilm would charge would be too steep.

 

Take a look at Skyscapers and see how much Earth is already Coruscantian.

 

Are you kidding me?

No! Corusant is so big and it hasn't water like the Earth!

But I would like Earth become Corustant or at last something like it, even is impossible

 

Coruscant's polar regions are ice. That's how they get water.

Oyah, and they do have an artificial ocean

 

Ugh. I hope not. And if it does, I hope there are people around to fight it.

 

Coruscant has a population of almost one trillion beings. It is also supplied with food and other resources from many other planets. I don't think it's possible for Earth to become anything like Coruscant.

 

I wish Earth was like Coruscant, I hate all peices of nature!

 

Arcologies are building architectures that are environmentally friendly. Both the outer and inner walls are made from an insulatory material, and the building itself is situated to take advantage of sunlight both for solar power and to make the insulation an active one.

Made large enough a building like this could become a community of people with everything you find inside equated to what you find in any city area such as malls, grocery stores, farms, parks and so on.

Sea arcologies would be large floating islands working in harmony with the ocean without disturbing life there.

Buildings made as arcologies would be very beneficial and could cover the Earth since they work with the environment and not against it. We may need to do this as the world becomes more and more crowded.

 

I sure hope not. Besides, how can a planet suvive like that? Lets start off with an easy question. Where do they get air, among MANY, MANY other things that keep a planet alive?

Besides, why would you want to live in a giant city? I want my home to be like Degobah. Few people, lots of critters. Maybe even like Tattoine, few people with open spaces.

 

^Proof positive I am still ignored in many posts, or else my posts are simply not understood.

Perhaps a definition from Yahoo:

Arcology is Paolo Soleri's concept of cities which embody the fusion of architecture with ecology. The arcology concept proposes a highly integrated and compact three-dimensional urban form that is the opposite of urban sprawl with its inherently wasteful consumption of land, energy, time and human resources. An arcology would need about two percent as much land as a typical city of similar population. Arcology eliminates the automobile from inside the city and reserves it for use outside the city. Walking would be the main form of transportation inside an arcology. The miniaturization of the city enables radical conservation of land, energy and resources. Arcology would rely as much as possible on the sun, the wind and other renewable energy so as to reduce pollution and dependence on fossil fuels. Arcology needs less energy per capita thus making recycling and the use of solar energy more feasible than in present cities.

I don't think GL knew what an arcology was when he had Coruscant in mind, but if the buildings of that planet are arcologies they are a benefit and not a pollution.