Could you live in a city like Rapture?

[lockedout]

Not of the Ocean. Because fish shit in it.

You then drink it.

[Masark]

Even if it was like.. a slow leak? Like, suppose a seal was leaking and just slowly filled the place up with water over a couple of days?

Slow leak? You don't get slow leaks under the kind of pressure you find near the ocean floor. You've got hundreds of atmospheres worth of pressure.

[Deleted]

Slow leak? You don't get slow leaks under the kind of pressure you find near the ocean floor. You've got hundreds of atmospheres worth of pressure.

Suppose though, you have two pipe-like corridors, which are common in rapture. Suppose they screw into place, like the pipes under, say, a sink - each one being a modular unit that you can fit in as and where you like, and each one being more than capable of with standing the pressure at the ocean floor. Then you partially unscrew one of these pipes, so water is allowed in slowly. The pipe still isn't going to buckle, and is welll overenginered so there is no risk of it just smashing at any point, but water is allowed to come in through a small gap. Sure, the pressure of that water is going to be high, like when you hold your thumb over a faucet and let the water spray out through a gap, but it's still a slow leak, and the water that comes in, once it's settled, is going to be under normal atmospheric pressure - or whatever the pressure inside the pipe is, surely?

[Stir]

Live in a libertarian's wildest dream?
No, thanks. I enjoy my status of 'not a slave.' I'd like to keep it that way.

[Xargoth6634]

The idea is cool and it'd be fun to visit, but I want to live somewhere I can experience on-land nature. Sky, sun, clouds, stars....I'd miss it all too much.

[Tirivaria]

BioShock was a rather scathing criticism of libertarianism, if you really look at it. Rapture fell because of Andrew Ryan's philosophies (note that he has the same initials as Ayn Rand.)

I would not live there for three reasons

1. Libertarianism doesn't work
2. Its underwater. One crack in the wrong spot and you're fucked
3. Kinda don't want to have to dodge enraged Big Daddies and psychopathic splicers every time I commute.

I've only played the first game but what struck me is that the libertarian ideology espoused by Andrew Ryan is fundamentally incompatible with living underwater because you're all dependent on the dome. I guess it works for Ryan being the one who owns the dome, but for everyone else, you're stuck as a virtual serf because of that dependency.

Rapture was always going to be, at the very best, a massive con job drawing in people with promises of unparalleled freedom but really trapping them in the city and at the whims of the people who controlled the resources (dome, air, drinking water, etc).

[Sky High]

given how rapture still seems to be habitable even after what is it decades of civil war with super charged mutants ducking out I have to give safety to rapture. I don't agree with Ryan's ideology one iota but at least he isn't some waked out religious fanatic, racist, bigot.

[Puppy]

I think it would be pretty cool living down there but... of course there would be several issues over time haha

[Very Tired]

BioShock was a rather scathing criticism of libertarianism, if you really look at it. Rapture fell because of Andrew Ryan's philosophies (note that he has the same initials as Ayn Rand.)

I would not live there for three reasons

1. Libertarianism doesn't work
2. Its underwater. One crack in the wrong spot and you're fucked
3. Kinda don't want to have to dodge enraged Big Daddies and psychopathic splicers every time I commute.

Have you learned nothing from Ryan the Lion and Peter the Parasite?

[PuppetShowJustice]

It was agonizing but not painful per se

Could I get a clarification on how this works?

[breadisfunny]

no because i despise ayn rand and her awful ideology.

[Afrospinach]

Could I get a clarification on how this works?

The extreme willingness to take a breath is not painful but it is a really, really uncomfortable panic inducing feeling, I suppose it is the same as holding your breath but when you can't get your head above water when you are seriously disorientated it becomes just that more pressing.

I had this wonderful page talking about drowning experiences and why some people experience pleasure and whatnot I will see if I can find it.

et voila: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popula...in_in_Drowning

[Deleted]

Already a basement dwelling fedorabro, so sure i could!

But for the critical question of unmatchable importance.

Would i have internet?

[Frozenbeef]

Why not i guess being imprisoned with thousands of drug addict crazy lunatics would be fun...

[Afrospinach]

Would i have internet?

Just set up near one of those trans ocean cables, then you could have all the bandwidth all of it.

[Zoaric]

Hm... it depends. If I have my own personal Bathosphere, and plasmids aren't in use
(as well as ADAM or Splicers,) then maybe.

[Mihalik]

Ah....more Ayn Rand fanbois.

The thing about Ayn Rand was that she was a loon, and had next to no idea about human behavior or social dynamics. Folks who subscribe to her ideology is continue being willfully ignorant in the example of their beloved leader.

Funny thing about both The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, the social stagnation the she bitches about is in reality a consequence of crony capitalism (which is usually brought about by deregulation of the relationship between the private sphere and government regulators). Of course this realization completely flew by Ayn Rand and continues flying by her modern fans.

[Puck]

Both COlumbia and Rapture are terrible because they harbor two dark extremes of humanity. Why anyone would wan't to live in either confuses me greatly.

[Niroshi]

Cool place to visit, but no. Not a big fan of being underwater to start with and I don't mix well with Ayn Rand types.

[Pitkanen]

Rapture was a silly concept for anything but marine biology and high gravity space colonization pilots. (Other things could be imagined as well) I could if I was doing research on something that benefited greatly from it, otherwise no need to live in the dark with just artificial lighting.