Was reading Acyl's cool bit about the island. Also remembered Bob's 4 Corners and the Alaskan guy with the chunk of land refitted to take on asteroid mining.
Suddenly something hit me -
First a question. Both meta and technical.
How big a chunk of land can handwaved devices lift? Is there some sort of upper limit?
Let's cut to the chase here - could someone crazy enough and determined enough and with enough connections and patience lift an entire CITY off the planet?
I'm not seriously considering this as a story element. It was really just - It struck me that someone somewhere might think of that. In fact that it might be yet one more reason why governments are so paranoid about handwavium.
Basically - something of a mind experiment to consider. Follow the premise down to one of the more extreme conclusions.
Now - ramp up the paranoia even further, into the socio-religious aspect.
What if the city that rises up out of the gravity well -
- is Jerusalem?
-Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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Suddenly something hit me -
First a question. Both meta and technical.
How big a chunk of land can handwaved devices lift? Is there some sort of upper limit?
Let's cut to the chase here - could someone crazy enough and determined enough and with enough connections and patience lift an entire CITY off the planet?
I'm not seriously considering this as a story element. It was really just - It struck me that someone somewhere might think of that. In fact that it might be yet one more reason why governments are so paranoid about handwavium.
Basically - something of a mind experiment to consider. Follow the premise down to one of the more extreme conclusions.
Now - ramp up the paranoia even further, into the socio-religious aspect.
What if the city that rises up out of the gravity well -
- is Jerusalem?
-Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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