[hider=state of the solar system] Earth is a wreck Venus is tentatively being looked at as a potential colony Moon is heavily populated, as is lunar space (~10,000 ppl total) Mars has been slowly being populated, probably about 100,000 people who have been willing to take the plunge to go to Mars for real for real [/hider] [hider=1-16-2018 Chatlog] Gonna have to whip out the ol Photoshop for 2203: The Melt Marinara - Today at 7:49 PM Oooh ML - Today at 7:49 PM It's a dumb name I'm looking for a better one 2203: sayonara, polar bears Marinara - Today at 7:52 PM Approximately how much of the earth's surface will be water by then? Do you know? ML - Today at 7:53 PM https://ss2.climatecentral.org/#12/40.7298/-74.0070?show=satellite&projections=0-K14_RCP85-SLR&level=5&unit=feet&pois=hide Climate Central Surging Seas: Risk Zone Map Explore your local sea level rise risk. Go here Select 30 meters There u go It's the perfect tool And also fucking depressing at the same time That's why I was talking about everything before Because according to predictions NYC is fucked ML - Today at 8:13 PM It just occurred to me that all of this is based on a faulty assumption Marinara - Today at 8:57 PM Out of class now I have phat mountains of work ML - Today at 8:57 PM Ok ML - Today at 9:01 PM Well don't think idea will work anymore undortunstel Unfortunately Marinara - Today at 9:02 PM Yikes ML - Today at 9:07 PM i was assuming the water all raised at once in 200 years there'd be plenty of time to fix any issues that would arise from sea levels rising plenty of time to build houses and move stuff around ya see Marinara - Today at 9:52 PM plot twist it all happens at once bc we take the communal tears of university and college students across the globe and just dump it ML - Today at 9:57 PM uthere Marinara - Today at 9:57 PM si ML - Today at 9:57 PM the idea isnt dea Marinara - Today at 9:57 PM home now ML - Today at 9:57 PM because i forgot that the average temperature woudl rise to about 80 deg F making much more of the earth a nightmare to live on very few habitable zones Marinara - Today at 9:58 PM even better live in the rocks under the dirt ML - Today at 9:58 PM this makes me kind of unhappy i should not be planning how badly the world can end this is all real this is very depressing Marinara - Today at 9:58 PM we go to the caves and become dwarf-people yeah, true it sucks but that's why we need to do all we can to preserve it and like, this is a shitty way of thinking about it but you and i will probably never have to see it come to that point hopefully we'll be dead by then and then it's just someone else's problem Marinara - Today at 10:00 PM but that's the repetitive thinking that's gotten us into this whole mess anyway ML - Today at 10:00 PM philosophical crises intensifies anyway the desert areas of the world are probably uninhabitable at this point sea levels have risen and the major cities are probably too entrenched to move even after 200 years i was also thinking about small scale things in the world an underground fight club near sea level in an atlanta high-rise Marinara - Today at 10:03 PM ooooh ML - Today at 10:03 PM well Marinara - Today at 10:03 PM fight club ML - Today at 10:03 PM hold on(edited) not atlanta, miami atlanta would be fine Marinara - Today at 10:05 PM f i gh t c l u b ML - Today at 10:05 PM really dark and underground thing Marinara - Today at 10:07 PM i'm all about fight clubs ML - Today at 10:07 PM also i want to make it like 2150 instead, just assume theres a huge increase in greenhouse gases less likely to be a realistic thing Marinara - Today at 10:08 PM i really want to work on my action-y writing ML - Today at 10:08 PM less depressing little bit more scifi Marinara - Today at 10:08 PM mhm ML - Today at 10:08 PM makes me feel better Marinara - Today at 10:09 PM what else are you thinking of including? ML - Today at 10:10 PM https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/169873-2152-plumbing-problems/ooc i have made a place to type stuff Marinara - Today at 10:10 PM omw ML - Today at 10:11 PM another idea includes a seawall maintenance crew at like Sacramento or something and these are just for the US Marinara - Today at 10:12 PM bombass navies ML - Today at 10:12 PM theyd have to go out into the ocean and fix structural deficiencies Marinara - Today at 10:13 PM oof what would governments' reactions be to the sea levels? ML - Today at 10:13 PM dunno [/hider] [hider=The Space Guardrail] okay so revision Runaway climate change they start building the sea wall early but as the water continues to rise, they have to keep making the wall higher comes to be known as the Space Guardrail Marinara - Today at 10:37 PM dope namee ML - Today at 10:37 PM NASA once again becomes a popular and important part of the world, and around the time of the rp is being funneled a lot of money to try and colonize the moon, mars, and venus but we dont even have to focus on that part of the world, thats just some lore building [/hider] references http://www.ulalaunch.com/uploads/docs/Published_Papers/Commercial_Space/2016_Cislunar.pdf https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Global_soil_regions.jpg https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/US/average-state-temperatures-in-summer.php https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2013/09/rising-seas-ice-melt-new-shoreline-maps/ https://www.space.com/34234-spacex-mars-colony-plan-by-the-numbers.html https://www.fastcompany.com/3016331/think-the-world-is-crowded-you-could-fit-the-entire-human-race-in-new-zealand https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/sites.html