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Oct 19, 2015 · Thousands of residents from Jiangxi and Foshan in China reported seeing a "floating city" in the sky earlier this month. The images and grainy video footage appear to show towering...
- Oceanix at The Smithsonian
- How It All Started
- Retro Visions of Future Cities
- The Challenges to Building A Floating City
A scale model of Oceanix City will be featured in the upcoming exhibition, “Futures,” at Smithsonian’s Arts & Industries Building (AIB) in Washington, D.C. Opening in November, the showseeks to explore what lies ahead for humanity through the lens of art and technology. Balancing futuristic concepts like flying cars with problem-solving technologic...
Oceanix was dreamed up by Polynesian entrepreneur Marc Collins Chen, who first saw floating cities as a solution to climate adaptation while he was minister of tourism in French Polynesia. In this role from 2007 to 2008, Collins Chen was tasked with assessing the long-term effects of sea level rise on the islands. Six years later, a 2013 study publ...
Iterations of floating cities, both fictional and real, have captured the human imagination for centuries. In Jules Verne’s science fiction novel Propeller Island, published in 1895, a French string quartet sails on a floating city designed to travel the waters of the Pacific Ocean. And in the much-derided, 1995 action film Waterworld, Kevin Costne...
"Whenever you're doing something that floats you have to start thinking about ballast, and wave action and how the energy that is built into the waves will start to work with whatever floating structure," says Bergmann. So BIG started looking at floating pods: how to support them, how to connect them, and how to protect them from wave forces. The e...
Oct 20, 2015 · A giant floating city appeared in the sky in China. Or did it? A video purporting to show a mass of skyscrapers towering above clouds in the Chinese city of Foshan has gone viral, sparking talk...
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Oct 20, 2015 · Video of a mysterious cityscape in the clouds hovering over a Chinese city has gone viral this week. And explanations for this startling video range from a secret NASA project to an elaborate...
In science fiction and fantasy, floating cities and islands are a common trope, ranging from cities and islands that float on water to ones that float in the atmosphere of a planet by purported scientific technologies or by magical means.
An otherwise-normal place that's floating in the sky, often for no adequately-explored reason. This is an extremely common trope in fantasy and video games. Nothing says "exotic" like a city floating in the sky.
Oct 19, 2015 · A few weeks ago, residents in the city of Foshan in China's Guangdong province were alarmed when a floating city suddenly appeared in the clouds above them. The phenomenon lasted only a few minutes and seemed to contain skyscrapers and buildings suspended mid-air.
