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Whether big or small. We all have that one thing from Scifi we wished were real. I'd love to see a cool underground city with like a SkyDome or a space hotel for instance.

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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Terraforming.

The formerly-water deserts can be terraformed by just digging holes at specific angles so the shadow protects plants from drying up.

It's sci-fi not like a "future robot" thing but more of a "hey we know the math we can do this reliably well" type of thing.

Also those expensive EEG headbands that track your brain during sleep and give you stats can be modified to change TV channel at specific brainwave values.

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've got good news for you! We've been terraforming the planet to be more like Arrakis for a couple decades already!

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Ah, the chapterhouse: Dune strategy

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know why I haven't thought about terraforming earth until I read it in a sci Fi book and it seemed like the simplest and best thing to do, over terraforming mars or Venus. We have the tech for bioengineering, cloud seeding (I think), chemicals to help stimulate growth of natural plants (at least for the ocean).

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Oceans don't need seeding, they just need us to stop fucking bottom trawling for, like, 5 minutes