I wonder if humans
will ever go to other planets or learn the art of terraforming worlds. Imagine planets
the size of Earth or bigger - so many that each planet only has a population of
say; 20,000 people. Also indulge the thought of having vehicles, like in the
above picture. We would fly everywhere and leave the Eco system alone as much
as possible.
Could it ever be done? Would we be smart enough to do it? Definitely
maybe?
Sometimes I look at great images like this and dream on. A
city with no roads going to or from and the wilderness can continue. Perhaps
the agricultural fields growing all the food are on giant wheels in space -
revolving cylindrical platforms with artificial light from giant solar panels.
Here such agricultural needs could be produced without too much damage to the
environment. I don't even want to imagine man made fields on this lush, wild and untamed planet.
It does make one realise that large groups of people require
vast areas of land just to feed ourselves. I think that's why I'm fantasising
that there are cylinder ring worlds for growing food, leaving planets free from
too much people infection. Maybe there are robotic crews tending the fields
with a skeleton crew of humans doing the maintenance work. You know – fly out
of the city and up into space to the agricultural cylinders with the robotic
combine harvester and robotic fruit pickers etc.
Creating the vision is the foundation of ideas, but plans
never always work out the way we view them on a drawing board. There is always
some unforeseen factor thrown in. I keep thinking that this wonderful city in
the wilderness of an untamed planet needs fields for food - huge areas of
cultivation - something man made and scaring the landscape - corrupting it to
feed the inhabitants of the picturesque city.
What things could go wrong? What things are being neglected
in this fine image of Utopian and futuristic beauty?
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