Second thing I thought of after communismThis would've caused an environmental and economic disaster of unimaginable proportions.
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This makes me wonder why nobody suggested to Hitler that they invade the UK by couple of dams across the channelThis would've caused an environmental and economic disaster of unimaginable proportions.
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The video is nearly an hour long. Can you give a short summary of why it wouldn’t have worked?
Well, according to tvtropes, it was basically a giant glass cage for the people living there. You wouldn’t have basic privacy, since you were technically living in an exhibit for THE FUTURE. Everything would be run by Walt Disney, including who could live there, and you were expected to work well past retirement. Look up False Utopia on Definctlands’ tvtropes page.
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You are probably talking about Senator Tillman's Maximum battleship studies from 1917. That was actually fairly reasonable, he asked the US Navy to come up with the largest battleship they could build, subject to infrastructure limits, and skip the slow escalation of battleship sizes every year. Admittedly this was probably a take at the navy from Tillman, who despite being on the naval affairs committee frenquently denied them the ships they wanted. The ship study's in question were able to use the Panama canal without expanding the locks and the southern US ports without the need for dredging. They weren't exactly good ship designs, having quite a number of issues, but they were possible to build and not expensive enough the US could not have afforded the construction of them
You want battleships too big to ever work, look at the later German H class studies or Kaneda's 500,000 ton monster design
Since it's from around the same time as those ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitspurbahn
There was technical proposal in 1990s
To blow The moon up
yes you read right blow the moon up, destroy it into little pieces.
the Scientist with this mad idea, believed it would better to have no moon around Earth!
Lucky Alexander Abian died in 1999 and took his proposal into his grave...
To blow The moon up
yes you read right blow the moon up, destroy it into little pieces.
the Scientist with this mad idea, believed it would better to have no moon around Earth!
Lucky Alexander Abian died in 1999 and took his proposal into his grave...
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Reminds me of the Neil Stephenson book Seveneves. Things did not go well once the moon was destroyed.
I looked dude up on Wikipedia, apparently he believed destroying it would solve all of humanity's problems, including making it so that the earth would no longer wobble and no longer have seasons
Maybe all the rubble from a blown up moon falling into Earth’s atmosphere and wiping out all life?
Even assuming such a project would have worked, why would you want to stop the seasonal cycle? If Planet earth didn't have seasons plenty of places would become uninhabitable and a lot of people would be displaced. Check global annual average temperatures, a lack of seasons would immediately trigger an ice age and cause the disappearance of any enviroment that isn't hot desert, equatorial forest, maritime temperate, tundra and artic. Southern California would look like Nevada and northern California would look like Oregon, no inbetween
Maybe the moon was obstructing his view of Venus. Did he plan to use an Iludium Q38 Space Modulator?
He's wrong. Without the moon, Earth's axis would wobble insanely & the planet would be effectively uninhabitable.
(Which is something "Space: 1999" never mentions, either, BTW....)This probably doesn't fall into "unrealistic" as in theory there is nothing stopping it, but didn't Edward Teller reach the conclusion that if Mutual Assured Destruction was carried through to its logical conclusion, having delivery methods for nuclear weapons was a waste of time and the US may as well have gigaton hydrogen devices across its own landmass, ready to detonate and wipe out humanity if needed?
Richard Buckminster Fuller is the poster child of ardent futurists making well-intentioned, but hilariously wacky proposals.
While a lot of his wackier ideas are often ridiculed, he did admittedly popularise some nice design concepts too and his creativity came in defiance of a tough period in his life.
That's bordering Bond villain territory.
While a lot of his wackier ideas are often ridiculed, he did admittedly popularise some nice design concepts too and his creativity came in defiance of a tough period in his life.
Czechoslovak communists in the 1950s did a semi-serious proposal of using nukes to clear forests for forestry needs. On Czechoslovak soil !
That's bordering Bond villain territory.
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According to Wikipedia he wanted to eliminate things like heat waves, snowstorms and hurricanes, and he considered himself a modern equivalent of Galileo.