io9. examines whether a floating city, like in Bioshock: Infinite, could be a viable possibility. Short answer: it’s not.
Still, ever since Chrono Trigger, I’ve loved floating city narratives, so this makes for an interesting read.
This io9. article presents photos of some amazing homes made out of shipping containers.
(I am obviously a horrible person because my first thought upon reading the headline was a very dark joke about the second season of The Wire.)
Marseille-based artist Olivier Grossetête created this enchanting floating bridge that’s held aloft by three large white helium-filled balloons. Entitled Pont de Singe (Monkey Bridge), the bridge was designed for the Tatton Park Biennial. The ”Flights of Fancy” themed exhibition took place at Tatton Park in Cheshire, England.
Photos by Olivier Grossetête and Duncal Hull
Head over to My Modern Metropolis to view more photos of this awesome bridge.
[via Telegraph.co.uk and My Modern Metropolis]
Not only is this swimming pool indoors, but it’s also in the living room.
Engineering students in Utah created a vacuum-powered device that will allow the military to scale walls like Spider-Man. I have never wanted to join the military until now.
io9. asks what kind of cybernetic upgrade you’d get for yourself.
Personally, I’d go with the optics. Hopefully it would also come with the ability to see the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
I lived in Chicago my entire life, and while I like it enough, it’s too damn cold in the winter. I have long wanted to move out to California, which has a much warmer climate, but I am torn between Los Angeles and San Francisco. But then I’ll see something about New York City and think of how cool it’d be to live there, even though it gets pretty cold there as well.
Solution: Portal House. I need an engineer to design Portal doorways and a contractor to build 1 room of a house in multiple cities. Then I’ll connect the doorways via a Portal network, and voila! My “where do I live” problem is solved, because I’ll live in multiple cities at once! Get on this, engineers!
Sometimes, during this time of unemployment and uncertainty, I want to just grab my camera, fly across the ocean, and walk the Earth taking pictures. I’d go from Morocco to Europe, down to Egypt and Israel, then on to east Asia. I’d live off the kindness of others, then come home with thousands of pictures and write a book about my travels.
Then I realize this would never work. But I can dream that it does.
Now when I tell the woman I marry that we will be dressing up as Mal and Inara, I can point to sci-fi wedding precedent. And our wedding will have the added bonus of finishing up a lost storyline.
…wait, this being a Joss Whedon show and all, maybe role-playing that relationship isn’t the best of ideas. Simon and Kaylee got a happy ending. Maybe we’ll be them instead?
Obviously, the Community season finale is a long way off, but I wanted to get this out there before I forget. This season of Community must end with the study group from the “evil” universe finally breaking through into the prime timeline to fight their prime counterparts.
I’m not just basing this off a (hilarious) joke at the end of “Remedial Chaos Theory”; two episodes earlier, in “Geography of Global Conflict,” Abed helped Annie win the Model UN competition by having their blue team “break through” the universal barrier to Annie Kim’s red team. Throw in the fact that Troy and Abed are into Inspector Spacetime, a show about navigating time and space, and I think the foreshadowed writing is on the wall.
Remember when I posted that story from io9. about the quantum levitation? I wondered about some of the practical applications of such a phenomenon. Stephen Colbert has found one.
