RE: The good ship Extro 1

From: nanowave (nanowave@shaw.ca)
Date: Sun Jun 01 2003 - 18:40:52 MDT

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    Robert, my spidey sense is telling me you're perhaps 35% serious about this,
    so why not lower our sights a little to a project not quite so "ambitious"?

    Imagine instead a large underground monolithic dome connected to a series
    of radially spaced tunnels leading to smaller, private domes. The smaller
    domes would function as the sleeping/reading/web surfing quarters for a
    single extropian family/single/couple while the larger dome would
    essentially function as a *gulp* "techno-commune" where we shared such
    material things as a grand kitchen, a library, laundry facilities, a
    fireplace, and even an opening skylight with a telescope or WHY.

    We could build much of it with our own little extropian hands, and cobble
    together a "constitution" from the e-publications of other experimental
    community living projects. A constitution would set out a few rules
    regarding issues like who does the dishes and when, and how to avoid eating
    up each other's captain crunch cereal etc..

    I believe as extropians we are bound to draw closer together over the course
    of the next few decades (or centuries) and we ought to seriously consider
    clever, economical, and downright cool strategies that might enhance our
    understanding and appreciation of these final, historic, pre-singularity
    days.

    If we could pull something like this together it would be a superb
    achievement.

    check out these cool links:

    http://www.monolithicdome.com/gallery/homes/young/index.html (rad
    underground dome home)

    http://www.safeharbordome.com/site.html (check out the excellent step by
    step construction images - we could do this!)

    http://www.monolithicdome.com/thedome/index.html (lots of dome home general
    info)

    http://www.domebuilders.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro (even an
    active BBS if we got stuck and needed advice!)

    Russell Evermore

    ~~~where were you when the human race was won?~~~

    (p.s. sorry, Lee, for the positively glacial delay on the coordinates you
    requested - Duncan B.C.)



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