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What's a sci-fi thing you feel is achievable with our current level of technology that you'd love to see become a thing? (lemmy.world)

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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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[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 24 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Roof-top gardens everywhere! Like the launch arcologies in SimCity 2000. They looked cool as fuck.

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Plants on buildings bring some architectural and safety challenges, depending on how large they are. You need to somehow get dirt and water up, and the dirt can be pretty heavy. If something falls down into the ground it could hit someone and injured them. And also, with time, roots could lessen the structural integrity of a building.

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

No doubt, but I love the aesthetic