[ExI] Summer weather and COVID-19

[William Flynn Wallace]

Rather than cars, I think of food.  Already existing in places are
highrise buildings where produce is grown under sun and artificial light.
Why not combine the building with apartments for the workers there?  Why
not build places where you just walk across the hall to go to work?
Support staff will live in basements, which can be several stories deep.
Solves many problems such as transportation to work.  Ban private vehicles
- use all public buses and trains.  I am quite sure that I did not steal
these ideas from anyone and also sure that they are not unique.  bill w

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 1:19 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Summer weather and COVID-19
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> re Oakland and no reason to go there:  "There's no there there."  Gertrude
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> I disagree!  There is a there there.  There is simultaneously too much
> there there and not enough there there.  If you mean with the term “there”
> the square meters of ground space there, then there is not enough there
> there.  If you use the term “there” to mean population, there is way too
> much there there.  If “there” means both, then there is simultaneously not
> enough there and too much there there.  Their need is for more there there
> or less there there, depending on how you use “there”.
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> Oakland is too crowded.  San Francisco is worse.  Of course these are
> great places for a virus to move to and raise a big family.  Their problem
> is in having plenty of virus families there.
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> As we struggle in our current predicament, do think of ways to salvage the
> big cities, to get proles in and out of that place safely.  I think there
> are ways to do it and save nearly all the current infrastructure.  The
> lithium battery has opened a lot of possibilities.  Think of a small
> personal vehicle, battery powered, which completely encloses a prole,
> capable of guiding itself onto a train.  Think of something that would take
> up no more space than a wheelchair.  It doesn’t need to go fast (top speed
> of about 15 km/hr is plenty (for people on foot that is a practical
> cruising speed.))
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