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Multiworld Dome Array
Array of artificial environments under globe-shaped domes, connected by 'teleportation' portals. | |
So, you would like to experience 'teleportation'?
An array of artificial environments under globe-shaped domes, emulating different climate zones, from tropic to subsaharan, to artic, connected by extremely fast, short distance transportation tubes, immitating "stargate" portals. Each dome would represent
be a simulation of a different planet, from hottest deserts to locations with ancient cultures.
Such resorts could be built nearby nuclear power plants, because they would require substantial amount of energy to control the climates.
These could be used for both leisure (if tickets to such places could be sold profitably), as well as movie-making, and even experiments.
(For a miniature implementation of this, probably multi-story building with a fast elevator would work too, I guess.)
[I couldn't find appropriate category. It could be: Business->Resort]
Artificial Environments Under Domes
http://www.b2science.org/
More for science than for tourism, but I think they give public tours. [Alterother, May 15 2012]
Sort of the same effect
VR_20Respite_20Room
[AusCan531, May 17 2012]
[link]
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Um... I think these already exist. <link> |
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Right, just the transportation aspect is missing, as well as the range of environments does not seem to include the extremes, and the main purpose is different. |
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So, tell me more about this "teleportation"... is this
about stuffing teletubbies in suitcases? |
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No. No suitcases - Microgravity. This is how the teletubbies (^_^) work: |
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1. There is a single flexible teleportation tube, which works like a wormhole.
2. The tube is mobile under the surface, and is bent into a parabola, the ends of which connect two arbitrary worlds, which are not too far away from each other.
3. The tube's interior is made of slippery material (ideally, an array of fans creating a layer of air beneath you), so the frictionlessness prevents you from losing energy.
4. Once you enter the tube, the entry point closes immediately, and the additional air current is created to the direction of your travel, which pushes you above the surface of the other world.
5. You have to buy tickets to use tube service. |
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Although it's pretty creative and I dig the scifi element, the
'wormhole' effect seems kind of d!sn3y when you're
otherwise just moving from one realistic Earth climate to
another. It would make more sense (to me) if the different
domes were set up to have 'alien' climate feels, only in a
subtle, experiential way. |
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On a planet nearby a red, orange or blue star, the sunlight would have to be slightly different... That could be achieved even directly through the use of light filtering glass. |
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I think this is kinda dome (sorry, couldn't resist) to
death by Farmer, Dick, Le Guin and a dozen other
SciFi writers, as well as Stephen King and others. |
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..Eden Project (though I admit the teleportation devices weren't working when I visited, so I can't really say "baked") |
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How come it is a Disneyland? No silly stuffed animals and no giggling visitors. The atmosphere would be much more like that of a museum, - serene. |
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Indeed, Eden Project looks close to it, just without the teleportation, right. |
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//Disneyland// 'cuz of all the interlocking set-pieces. |
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If it's a museum, then why the hokey teleportation bit?
Why not just walk from dome to dome? Adding some
incongruous theme-parky element to what is otherwise a
serious and fascinating real-life experience doesn't make
sense to me. It seems like the two would clash. |
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[Alterother], not a museum, a simulation of wormhole travel to habitable worlds. |
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If the "wormhole travel" is so important then build a
real one. Not doing so devalues the experience to a
childish level, or makes it similar to the latest
attempts by the deep southern US God Squad to
offer a "creation" experience theme park. |
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Forget the tubes. Just one dome room with a 360 deg projector, some sound effects, a heck of an HVAC system, and a static 'transporter pad.' |
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[RayfordSteele], I know, modern planetariums rock, but how about the surface, the terrain, the plants, the water ponds and stuff? |
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All life is simply an illusion, [Inyuki]. It's not personal,
it's just IS. |
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[UnaBubba], it depends on how you define life...
What you experience, or what you are?
Just smart machines, anyone? |
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