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Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture, a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, Where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well.

Because of its narcotic effect at high pressure, nitrogen shouldn’t be breathed by humans at depths below about 60 meters. So, at 200 meters, the breathing mix in the habitat will be 2 percent oxygen and 98 percent helium. But because of its very high thermal conductivity, “we need to heat helium to 31–32 °C to get a normal 21–22 °C internal temperature environment,”

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Will it be filled to the brim with billionaires so it can also malfunction and we are on time for the annual billionaire sacrifice to the sea gods?

Sealab 2025?

So Bioshock….

Billionaires first

And in 2026, deep divers will be searching for datapads to find out what went wrong.

Build them as connectable hexagons. Learn from the insects, they've had a half billion years to figure out what shit works and what shit don't.

If your looking for me
You better check under the sea
Cause that is where you'll find me
Underneath the
Sealab, Underneath the water
Sealab, At the bottom of the sea.

About 4 years late, but whatever.

Very interesting to read, but sounds so astronomically expensive and reliant on zero mistakes in every single aspect of manufacturing every single thing going into the pods, that no one will sustain paying for this shit beyond angel investors.

high pressures are scary as shit.

apart from that, there's no sunlight down there. it's basically like living in antarctica.

If anything goes slightly wrong I die instantly you say? I need to sign up NOW

So basically Rapture

Space is hard to get to, no gravity, and there's radiation.

Underwater has high pressure, corrosion, and no natural lighting.

When you get an air leak in space, you find the hole and patch it. When you get a leak underwater, you don't have to worry about it at all because it takes care of things in microseconds.

What happened to biodomes? Did the Pauly Shore movie ruin the concept?

One step closer to SOMA

I have an idea. Let's stick all of the world's billionaires into a submarine and see if lightning strikes twice.

I've been playing lots of Oxygen not Included, so... Yeah good luck, what could go wrong?

This is for the oil and gas industry.

Ain't nobody paying for an underwater habitat for researchers when all researchers do at depth is take photos and samples, which can be done by an ROV.

Oil and Gas OTOH need deep see divers to do welding and other maintenance all the time.

Watch our oceans die before your very eyes!

Ocean is tough. Tougher than floating cities. Which are more realistic as real habitable environment.

I vote for Stanford torus stations in various L points.

Or, naturally, Mars.

Before that, of course, there are plenty of locations on Earth hard to live in, but not as hard as underwater domes. They should try that.

The trouble with all these schemes is that it's totally contrary to poweful real world trends. The surface of the Earth has an overwhelming abundance of rural land that is incredibly hospitable to life. And these places are depopulating because people prefer living in cities. How are you gonna get people to move to the bottom of the sea, or Mars, if they don't even want to move to West Virginia?