Sort of underground? Not in caves, or anything, but...
[ He pauses for a second, thinking. It's tough to assume much of anything about where a given person comes from or knows about in a place like this, but for a frame of reference he knows they can probably both relate to- ]
Imagine if someone took a city like the London we just visited, and just... didn't stop building. Just kept stacking catwalks and roads and train tracks and even buildings on top of the existing city until eventually the whole sky is blotted out except for the people on the very top level, and even then it's mostly filled with smog. That's what it's like where I'm from. It's nothing but city, everywhere.
Well, we've got farms? I don't know if that counts as natural, exactly. The planet's pretty much entirely mined out, too, so new material coming in is all from the mining colonies. It's pretty dire.
People've been predicting that we're all going to die from something or other for thousands of years now, so it's sort of hard to say who has a point? [ Especially when the respectable oracles won't say anything on the subject, probably for censorship reasons. ] You get kind of desensitized to all the doomsaying, even when it's probably right.
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Date: 2020-11-24 12:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-24 11:43 am (UTC)[ He pauses for a second, thinking. It's tough to assume much of anything about where a given person comes from or knows about in a place like this, but for a frame of reference he knows they can probably both relate to- ]
Imagine if someone took a city like the London we just visited, and just... didn't stop building. Just kept stacking catwalks and roads and train tracks and even buildings on top of the existing city until eventually the whole sky is blotted out except for the people on the very top level, and even then it's mostly filled with smog. That's what it's like where I'm from. It's nothing but city, everywhere.
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Date: 2020-11-24 06:57 pm (UTC)Is everything artificial? Are there any natural resources left at all?
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Date: 2020-11-25 07:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-28 08:07 pm (UTC)Eesh. How long's it projected to last before it destabilizes?
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Date: 2020-12-01 02:10 am (UTC)People've been predicting that we're all going to die from something or other for thousands of years now, so it's sort of hard to say who has a point? [ Especially when the respectable oracles won't say anything on the subject, probably for censorship reasons. ] You get kind of desensitized to all the doomsaying, even when it's probably right.