Mega Engineering- Floating City

[nir993]

what about waves, clean water, sewers, waste, ...

[sphinx245]

what about waves...

[Tyshon90]

Thats look scary

[Clone683]

instead of wasps, ill be afraid of killer whales

[JetWolfe77]

Catan anyone?

[FloppyTrout]

Reminds me of columbia in bioshock infinite

[WaySide66]

It wouldn't grow exponentially. It would grow at a steady rate based on manufacturing capacity.

[darylgearing]

@WaySide66

it would grow well fast, i for 1 would buy my own hexagon nd live on it

[darylgearing]

@WaySide66 and we'd just get loads of Chinese kids to make it like our toys nd clothes lol

[WedgieEvans]

ok building a city below sea level was dumb but building a city on the water? thats just a terrible idea.

[brownsnuts]

So, what happens if there's a wave?

[AquaVitaeOnTheRock]

No more beach and sea in the future because of this.

[samrobaston]

what happens if it floats away?

[Commando874]

I feel like this would wipe out sea life by doing this...

[WiseRaconteur]

this should only be built if the city/country or whatever it is replacing becomes unsustainable, otherwise it's a waste of money and resources.

[oblivionlover43]

Thats actually a pretty smart idea, and to solve the problems, A. Nuclear Reactor, B.Possibly some farms(those platforms would be higher than the others so that the roots have room like on a regular farm or could have special greenhouses and equipment to do the same thing NASA is doing with the plant they're thinking about sending to Mars aka the "floating plants") and C. Why not have a large water purifier that would be powered by the Nuclear Reactor.

[MusicMan53100]

@oblivionlover43 Yeah... Or just replace the idea of a nucleur ractor with FUCKING SOLAR PANELS!

[jat5889]

this reminds me of phineas and ferb when dr.doofenshmirtz built his floating city doofania

[XCMAX10X]

How?

[peazyFbABE]

FUCK KATRINA!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MultiStormsurge]

they get it done and the things that hold it still brakes and it floats of to land and causes destruction, the idea would bring a lot of pollution also

[MusicMan53100]

@MultiStormsurge Yeah... Unless everything was run on SOLAR PANELS!

[Deviatefish13]

I know how this ends... *Looks at Brink*

[TheKlink]

Nothing's free in water world!!

[BabyMeza03]

Thumbs up if your watching this because of alchestbreach!! :D

[OblivionZealot]

*facepalm*

[shova213]

stupid idea, leave the oceans for the marine life. This will add futher to the destruction of the ocean. modern man is the messisest creature on this earth

[StockyCoder]

I like how about half of the comments are racial.

[IsThisHacked]

In Soviet Russia, city visits you...

[PortalTroll]

Brink Much? "FOR THA ARK! >:V"

[MegaTrioProductions]

ALCHESTBREACH BROUGHT ME HERE WOOOO CHESH GIVES ME SHOUT OUT XD

[mhawklolol]

stupid idea

[Metrokiller555]

I find it very interesting, i have to agree that its going to take awhile to figure out something like this before it can really happen. But the idea of it is very sound, and it would probably sustain human safety for a lot longer than it will now.

[Reaper12366]

this is a very stupid idea

[NaruMaakaKazuya]

What if there was huge "fat people" population and it couldnt handle the weight ???!!!!???

[hazel2K9]

thats fuckin awesome

[AlternateArtisan]

great way to expand one's geopolitical boarders. Just stick a city right in the middle of international waters and claim that territory yours.

[kevin71127]

BUT.

will it blend?

[hellopeopleofeart100]

@kevin71127 Nope

[IDStatic]

oh ship!

[lifemetall]

i see how it could be possible, creating electricity from solar panels and creating water by vapor from sea, only trouble could be the food but i can see how fish would such ass, so probably another mobile platform with a farm could maintain some food demands

[TheExtragamer]

@lifemetall also farming would be possible

[JustDuana]

I like how he says it would only take "a few years" to build. How would this thing sustain hurricanes? Would there be farm platforms? Forest platforms? Interesting.

[djsoox]

What is this shit? F**K YOU

[ByabyaChannel]

Would be cool if we could make use of the water surfaces on earth and not only the land surfaces

[gjc82071]

1 realistic problem they aren't addressing here is: Based on the Katrina footage, we already know the racial/economic makeup of many of, if not the majority, of NOLA residents. WHO is going to spend, what could potentially cost $10's of billions, on a futuristic floating city housing primarily, poor blacks?

[PossiblyAsian]

@gjc82071 lol

[Metrokiller555]

@gjc82071 That was kinda of a racist statement. Not all blacks live in New orleans, and there are many wealthy blacks in Louisiana itself. Its about safety of the city, not about the populations emotional or racial state.

[gjc82071]

@Metrokiller555 It was a socioeconomic statement & not in any way racist. People like you scare me because judging by your comment, you obviously have no idea what racism even is. Explain to me how the comment is racist?

[ZombieShooter123]

@gjc82071 SO, because the people are mostly poor, or black, or even both, they shouldn't get a better chance at living, apparently? Would it help if I brought a crap load of wealthy white people there instead of the poor poor blacks?

[gjc82071]

@ZombieShooter123 I merely stated an apparent reality. I never addressed right or wrong. But to answer your question, yes, sadly it probably would.

[SuniDays87]

@gjc82071 That was clear from the beginning, the people meant to live on this "floating city" ARE the people who can afford it, the poor black people of Katrina will be the ones to remain on the land. This was only thought of to save and protect the rich aka white people of the city...you see who the ones were to get out of the city when Katrina did happen didn't you ...it was the white people.

[Lordeimond]

Sorry, but Is fool

[APFLAC]

is this possible?

[jcasteli]

It's nice to think out of the box, but these types of ideas will never happen for at least 50 years.

[Zoza15]

This is only with Support with Dutch Engineers that could make this Possible.

[TheVoiceOfReason93]

Too expensive. No selfish self-centered and self-absorbed taxpayer would ever pay for this. I will stick to to that Washington DC pod car transport system proposal mentioned in an early episode of Mega Engineering. Great idea though.

[PopFrankRock123]

What if there is a storm or tsunami...

[BuzzinFr0g]

@PopFrankRock123 Tsunamis would have a minimal impact on a floating city as their wave heights when propagating across open, deep water is only a few feet.

[MrDpxl]

@PopFrankRock123 Tsunami's aren't an issue on open waters. Storm on the other hand are. But it's large structure could mean the difference between destruction or minor damage.

[SHR2012FOOTBALL]

WATER WORLD CAME UP WITH IT FIRST!

[RSCxmisfitx]

one step closer towards over-population

[2layers]

does this remind anybody of the settlers of catan?

[NizzBomb69]

welcome to a type 1 civilization

we can do it!!!!!!!!

[0wIEyes]

And um...what if there's a tsunami?

[superdevonator]

Levis, because those ALWAYS work.

[Chewu]

Um what would happen in a storm? Would that just float over the massive waves? I doubt it. Cool idea though! :D

[poop12345poopable]

we dont need to do this yet, im 13 and already thought of it, if ur thinking eco, the water supplies more oxygen than the land. building sky scrapers under water sounds like a good idea to me though, you can build it as tall as you want it to be , and they won't have much natural disasters, all rooms are air tight,so if one room leaks, the other rooms survive, there would also not be much light below.it will be built in shallower waters. although we can use idea above to connect below to above.

[RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE]

@poop12345poopable

shut the fuck up

[SuperPiggy011]

@poop12345poopable

I'm also 13, but I think that there would be much more risk of natural disasters like earthquakes, and it will be very hard to extract oxygen from water. Extracting oxygen from water would cause decrease of water, which is not good, because there are other creatures living underwater. So, it is like cutting trees from forests.

[poop12345poopable]

haha civilization

[sauntersil]

Doesn't seem like a good idea. Disaster seems inescapably coherent with eventuality.

[spencertron88]

So THIS is atlantis? Meh.

[spencertron88]

Reminds me of good old new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new NEW new york!

[Renaissancecycles]

...and before you all get carried away to quickly,or swiftly as the master would say,every Boat owner knows that we do not have a long term solution to marine growth and osmosis yet!Now you will be brilliant and suggest Frequency technologies to counter fight on macro level and i ask you for the location of your power button,to turn you off that is!!

[Ignuus66]

WANT

[Jsworld1980]

this idea is as stupid as building a nuclear plant next to the coast in a earthquake prone country, nice going japs.

[Zappyguy111]

Brink comes to mind.

Lol, move places at will... We don't like this new Law, let's go to Europe!

[budweiser567]

fucking stupid idea

[Zappyguy111]

@budweiser567

fucking awesome idea more like it!

[marcopolo3001]

@budweiser567 Stop thinking about yourself man. In the near future, we will have around 9 billion people. We need radical solutions like these to change the way we think about urbanisation. Our world is 70% ocean. This is the perfect solution if we know how to do it properly. This is just the beginning. I am sure more refined models of this will look very habitable and environmentally friendly.

[pfrmartini98]

all you need is 1 hurricane or big storm, and newer orleans will end up like the last one:sunk

[Peterwhitlock]

The Joints make it dumb stupid and full of lies... at first they claim to not pollute then if a storm come they run and pollute galore! the joints make it a public danger and the population too low and a city based on tourist could not function... it is a dummy lack of brain work! The only thing that is correct is build the why they claim in concrete but on LAND so that if the city flood it just rise slowly for a few days and sink back into place. No IQ always go too far!

[wilhat]

what happens if a big wave hits is it erathquake safe and could you do smaller houses for such things

[torasadikia]

not a good idea... the steel of the plattform will get rusty as time goes by.. and what if there s a leakage on the platform

[RobertsDigital]

Not a good idea.....

Where will the sewage and garbage go to? The sea? I wont reccommend that! The earth is our planet. Every dirty thing we leave must be engineered so that they will return back to their normal state so that when we dispose of them they will be less harmful to our enviroment. Have they considered all this or they are just imagining things.

[dualwieldbacon]

This is totally a neat idea, but how do they overcome the problem of the harsh weather out on sea?

[mathainwarauparxw]

xulo theloun.....

[bagofbarn]

HOW DO I FIND THIS WHOLE PROGRAM. I AM WILLING TO BUY IT.

[MaitreTsu]

Im defiantly for this ... great idea on many levels and has the ability to put the great city of La Nuovelle Orleans on the map and make its an even bigger destination fr tourist ... the size will boom and finally the city will get the attention it should have had from the beginning but was bashed and disowned by the Americans in the most recent of times ... New Orleans should be its own country and should secede form the sates as soon as possible. proud " New Orleans resident "

[th3dig1tal0n3]

Why streets when you could have sallow canals? It is cheaper and better for moving stuff around. The ring or set of rings one inside another would probably be the best shape for the city on water.

[darthvader5300]

For floating drydocks already converted into heavy industrial engineering facilities like Russia's Uralmash which is also called by the Russians as the Factory of Factories, can have their storage facilities on floating drydocks that are placed inside a section where they are connected by vertical sliding rings so that as the iron ore, limestone, coal is used or replenished this storage floating drydocks will rise and fall as the weight fluctuates. On board ballast will act as added balancers.

[darthvader5300]

The floating drydocks can become permanently floating by pumping out the sea water, wash the interior with fresh water and pumping it out, and finally spraying their interior ballast with aero-concrete or concrete foam or geopolymer foam. The permanently floating drydocks can also be connected together permanently, forming a large floating platform that can support heavy industries getting raw materials and energy from the sea and sea bottom minerals. Saline agriculture will provide food.

[darthvader5300]

Permanent floating building platforms that supports all kinds of infra-technostructures and buildings and factories are already in existence in Japan. In fact, a floating drydock can be used to build a floating drydock piece by piece while permanent floating industrial platforms and storage facilities will provide the necessary building materials, engineering facilities, life-support, and manpower. This, in fact, was done in servicing and building WW II battleships by using floating drydocks.

[krzintegraboi]

i think a floating city is a good ideal but this is a bad design..it should be built mor like a icberg and not a flat bottom boat. the building space is like land building which are not effient for space. tidal,wind, and solar energy will have to sustain this city but they really need zero point energy to really solve the power needs.. i would also not have 300K ppl there more like 50k.

[lexmark136]

lol, notice they only put white models?

wouldn't it just be cheaper to build a proper levy? this shit will never be created.

[natosthan]

I agree this is a horrible idea, I dont understand why the city is on the move, who wants a mobile city lmao its not like the people of new orleans are an isolated population of people they have family in other states I'm sure.

[lundyncanada]

@natosthan Did you see they had no Black Faces in this video? My guess is they trying to separate Whites from Black?

[qadi0]

lawl. its like civilization 5. the hexagons

[AngryBF2Nerd]

if it takes 1 full year for tug boats to assemble it, how long wud it take to "relocate" if there is a hurricane in the way... lets see, about 1 more year.

[MrMushroom90]

@AngryBF2Nerd they have said that they will call chuck noris to move the city in just an hour

[jackybuzz]

@MrMushroom90 In fact, he could do it in an instant.

[redeemtony]

and where do you run when zombies infect the city, everyones screwed thats where

[c0linaf]

That would suck for the city if there was a hurricane or something

[jeehoondevil]

Not enough minerals

[9up246]

what if some fuckers dive under the platform and do bad stuff

[bozy99]

just dont see how it would protect it self from hurricanes and tsunamis

but all those things aside, its a good idea

[OreoLivesOn]

how do they get eletrticity?

[bozy99]

@OreoLivesOn solar panels my friend

[OreoLivesOn]

@bozy99 yes but that would be only in daytime

[bozy99]

@OreoLivesOn yeah but the way solar panel system works is it charges the batteries and then it uses the stored power to run what ever

so they would have the same but instead of like 5, 6 batteries, they would have like 100, 200 or even more to store all the energy :)

hope that helped

[OreoLivesOn]

@bozy99 it sure did help :)

[OreoLivesOn]

how the fuck do they think this is a good idea?!?!

[bozy99]

@OreoLivesOn in a way it is!

if u have a floting city, it means u dont have to cut down anything to have more space to build

[GabrielKnightz]

I love the Idea!!!

[SpaceManSarb]

...i thought they meant floating in the SKY! how cool would that be..

[arneduym]

@SpaceManSarb lol me to

[azngotback]

wow awesome ;) be cool if it was made into a game...and this is bad for weather but they said it's mobile so i can see that it's promising it's possible since we got weather forecasting

[pace7759]

Wow, imagine the devastation of a hurricane, let alone a tsunami, on this floating city. Thumbs up if you can.

[Shaunt1]

@pace7759 It could have giant retractable cover like for stadiums but larger that shields the city during storms .

[bakerbrock24]

ya this would be fucking great....i mean it's not like we kill enough animals everyday by chopping trees for buildings on land...y dont we mess with maring life too.

[bozy99]

@bakerbrock24 it wouldnt really mess anything up... if it just floats there, it just floats there

animals can still live there you know

[bakerbrock24]

@bozy99 well if u think about the waste theyre gona have to do something with it and alot of trash would get thrown in the ocean..its rly not a good idea at all.

[bozy99]

@bakerbrock24 to be honest i dont think that if they make a city that could actually float on water would just throw their waste products in the water

i would think that people who actually make the city the real deal would actually throw all the waste in the water

[bakerbrock24]

@bozy99 ya but i mean go to ur average highway or just road and look how much trash there is in a ditch or something..ppl would deffinetly do that to the water theyre surrounded by

[speedstriker]

Sim City Much? This may not be as good of an idea since the ocean is already messed up enough.

[DocWolph]

I sounds cool. Sections of cities like Amsterdam, Venice, and New Orleans could benefit by this. These cities could float above on flood and recover easily. As for a completely self-sustaining floating city, Solar wind and wave kinetic energy are all options. The first such cities would be huge floating military bases and facilities. You think a carrier group looming off shore is intimidating? Try the USS Military Island?

[mitkoogrozev]

this city looks too chaotic . The buildings are just stuffed there randomly just like a land city. Too inefficient and very messy.

[gitter46]

bioshock anyone?

[ChristopheBilliet]

I WANT TO HEIST THAT CITY.

[Stoettax]

and wen a wave arive?

[MyLoneImagination]

@Stoettax

Bath time.

[momo1tm]

aren't hurricanes much stronger over oceans?

[tiagom135]

this looks very stupid

[flaviucretiu]

I don't wanna seem sceptic, but artificial stuff can never replace natural environment. It's complex structure cannot fully be understood, and so it cannot be recreated. Nature provide all the resources we need, and by destroyn' it we don't do nothing else but cause our own extinction .

All this idustrial shit , polution and nature destruction for economical interests it's makin' me sick. All new diseases are developin' and human race becomes sicker and sicker. This hi-tech stuff ain't it.

[bakerbrock24]

@flaviucretiu i totaly agree with this also

[cnnr155]

Waves, They'd flood the city!

[frankp4]

what about storm ?

[MrPedoShine]

uhmmm. What about storms ? LMFAO this is such a fail.... and it will never be built...

[Michaeltheawsome]

this would take like 100 years

[oddsource]

water world? or 1984?

[Njaaargh]

What if a storm appeared, then what?

[willowempire]

did someone forget hurricanes?

[BramRongen]

Nice programme this Mega Engineering =D

[MrPointless]

New New Orleans!