"01" - Outlining A Type One Civilization

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it's not Utopia. It's merely practical.

Creating a compassionate, rational, scientific Type One Civilization.

"The long-term survival of the human race is at risk as long as it is confined to a single planet." - Stephen Hawking

"The generation now alive and our grandchildren are the most important generations ever to walk the earth. We are the generations that will determine whether we make the transitions from Type Zero to Type One or we destroy ourselves because of our arrogance and our weapons." - Michio Kaku



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  1. nirvikalpa:

    Inspired by another post here on Tumblr, I decided to look into the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong a bit more, it truly was one of the most amazing and terrifying places on earth.  Being slightly smaller than an NFL stadium, the structure was built of 350 smaller interconnected buildings and hosted, at it’s peak, a population density of 5 million people per square mile.

    To put those numbers in perspective, this would be like taking the entire population of metro Philadelphia, the 4th largest in the US, and putting it in 1 square mile instead of 1,744.

    The area was also largely ungoverned and unregulated.  Factories, apartments, schools, temples, churches, shops, cafes, hotels and almost anything else one could imagine were housed within the structure that never had a full blueprint of it done. Buildings were built onto buildings, expanded, rebuilt, and re-purposed as needed without a central authority of any kind.

    Within the structure, natural light was almost non-existent, and an unknown number of miles of jury-rigged wires provided electricity to everything.  Water constantly dripped down to the lower levels from both rain and leaking pipes, while garbage filled every passage.  A constant yellow haze filled the structure and there were never any government safety inspections.

    The Kowloon Walled City was demolished in the early 1990s as part of the deal that returned Hong Kong to the Chinese from the British. The entire area is now a park.

    I find places like this fascinating, it is just incredible what we, humans, build and live in. This, hive, for lack of a better term, was one of the most interesting structures I’ve yet looked at.

    For a documentary shot inside of the Kowloon Walled City, check here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby9P3ms11w

    (Source: theastralcity)

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      This is pretty amazing
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      This is fucking cool, terrifying but cool.
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      my lovely lovely hometown
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      This is eerily creepy, yet fascinating
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