At 09:56 AM 6/30/02, "Robert Seeberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ronn Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 8:55 AM
>Subject: Re: Efficiency in Genocide
>
>
> > > > It would be intolerably miserable at best on the coldest winter day.
> >
> >
> >
> > . . . 1 human/900 ft� means one human in a fair-sized room. None of the
> > rooms in my house come anywhere close to 900 ft�. In fact, I think that
> > would be close to half the living area of the whole house, and for many
> > years this house housed three humans and still needed to be heated during
> > even an Alabama winter. My grandparents' house was even smaller, and
>still
> > had to be heated even when the entire family gathered in one room to open
> > Christmas presents.
> >
> > (Now, on a summer day with both the computer and the TV/VCR running, it
> > does get a tad warm here in the immediate vicinity . . . )
> >
>Ahhhhhh........Now I see where the problem lies. Everyone else seems to be
>thinking of single family dwellings and I am thinking on the scale of an
>arcology.
>
>Really 2 different sets of problems.
Some please correct me if I am wrong, but if I understood the original
suggestion of moving everyone on Earth to Texas, it was that a *one story*
building with 30x30 living areas for each person could fit in half the area
of Texas. Admittedly, one would have to allow for either hallways in the
giant one-story apartment building or paths between the individual sheds
(or build it as one giant barracks), which would take more space, as would
the necessary infrastructure for utilities. Figure that doubles the area
required to the size of the whole state of Texas. Admittedly, most of the
inhabitants would need to telecommute . . . (except maybe for the grain
farmers who could live on the northern side so they could farm Oklahoma,
Kansas, etc. . . . ;-) )
--Ronn! :)
"Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country and two
words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER GOD. Wouldn't
it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated
from schools too?"
-- Red Skelton
