#2291: DodgeCity

I’ve been thinking a great deal about asteroid impact.

The probability of an earth-destroying impact is very tiny…and there is nothing that can be done about them anyway -beyond having a global lottery for places on the last Virgin Galactic flight.

dodgecity

The most significant opportunity to outlive an asteroid impact is surely to deal with the problem of medium-sized bodies hammering into a major city.

Today’s invention is therefore an asteroid-proof metropolis.

Build a city on a wheeled platform which is free to move on a special set of orthogonal railway lines, as shown (we already create whole airports on roller bearings, in areas of earthquake activity).

A few hours before being struck, a city of this type could be powered out of the predicted line of fire. There would be significant damage to the surrounding landscape, but the city itself would avoid catastrophe.

One Comment:

Comments are closed