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    Image of Diziet_Sma Diziet_Sma
    03:26 AM

    In reply to Hey You, Let's Move Here
    *Packs bags* Ready when you are.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    11/29/09

    In reply to Hey You, Let's Move Here
    It looks like a soviet-era bunker in a beautiful, beautiful location.
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    Image of DustyButt™ DustyButt™
    11/29/09

    In reply to Hey You, Let's Move Here
    Remote Scenery... check.
    Beautiful Design... check.
    Breathtaking sunsets and nights... check.
    Air conditioner... Not installed!

    I'd visit for one day, but I couldn't live there.

    The thought of being there is ruined by the thought of trying to sleep in a pool of my own sweat during the hot season.
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    Image of carlos003 carlos003
    11/29/09

    @DustyButt™: Hot weather in Oaxaca? It doesn't even go above 30-32C
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    Image of DustyButt™ DustyButt™
    11/29/09

    @carlos003: 90F during the day and 78F (plus humidity) at night = hot.

    That's just how I roll. I keep the house around 70F-75F when I sleep. And 75F is my upper range in sleep comfort.

    The weather right now is dead on for my sweet spot though!
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    Edited by DustyButt™ at 11/30/09 12:01 AM DustyButt™ was starred DustyButt™ was unstarred
    Image of Curves Curves
    11/29/09

    In reply to Hey You, Let's Move Here
    An amazing house in an amazing place. Endless vistas and a hammock. It looks like the ideal romantic getaway. I may lose my Giz card for saying this, but I wouldnt even need a net connection.

    Well for a few days anyway.
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    Image of Shamoononon:  I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    11/29/09

    In reply to Hey You, Let's Move Here
    That's really beautiful but without windows I see the inside deteriorating pretty quick. Also, wonder how they keep the pool clean. No mention on if it has running water and what kind of plumbing there is.
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    Edited by Shamoononon: I shave my legs. at 11/29/09 4:58 PM Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was starred Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was unstarred
    Image of Stndsh0 Stndsh0
    11/29/09

    @Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: Sea snails. Lots and lots of sea snails.
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    Image of fauxfilms fauxfilms
    11/29/09

    @Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: I can't imagine someone dumping that much money to make their dream house and forgetting to put plumbing in.
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    Image of Shamoononon:  I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    11/29/09

    @fauxfilms: Yeah, I was kind of thinking it was in the middle of nowhere, but on second search, I guess not.
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    Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was starred Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was unstarred
    Image of Stndsh0 Stndsh0
    11/29/09

    In reply to Hey You, Let's Move Here
    Why have a two master schooner when you can have The Maltese Falcon instead?

    The cross is also very nice subtle imagery.
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    Edited by Stndsh0 at 11/29/09 4:54 PM Stndsh0 was starred Stndsh0 was unstarred
    Image of Stndsh0 Stndsh0
    11/29/09

    Picture fail.
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    Edited by Stndsh0 at 11/29/09 4:55 PM Stndsh0 was starred Stndsh0 was unstarred
    Image of Stndsh0 Stndsh0
    11/29/09

    @Stndsh0: Here is the picture.
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    11/29/09

    @Stndsh0: That's a horrible ship. A true abomination.
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    Image of Drizko Drizko
    11/29/09

    In reply to Hey You, Let's Move Here
    I was wondering, where is Roca Blanca exactly in Mexico? I looked it up on Google maps and couldn't find anything.
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/29/09

    @Drizko: Based on the linked interview:

    "The house is located in Roca Blanca, on the Pacific coast close to Puerto Escondido"
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    Image of Drizko Drizko
    11/29/09

    @Rosa Golijan: Should have checked there haha. Thanks.
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/29/09

    @Drizko: Not a problem.
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    Image of modernape modernape
    11/29/09

    @Rosa Golijan: However, Puerto Escondido is not in the Sea of Cortez (Baja), I should know, I live there.
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/29/09

    @modernape: I blame the original interview.
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    Image of pete1061 pete1061
    11/28/09

    In reply to I Wouldn't Mind Living in Post-Apocalypse New York
    If, and I repeat IF, sea levels significantly rise, it will happen very slowly. people will just move with the shoreline, or they will build dikes to hold back the sea.
    These nightmare "climate change" scenarios are from the realm of pure fantasy, intended to scare people into buying Al Gore's carbon offsets.

    All this focus on CO2 only distracts people from the real environmental hazards, too countless to list here.

    The climate is always changing, always has, always will. When it changes, people either move, or add/remove insulation on their body/home.
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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    11/29/09

    @pete1061: While there's certainly hype surrounding some of the effects of the warming planet (and these pics of NYC might be that, although it looked more like a fun thing for the artist to do, rather than a prediction, to me), and there are other environmental hazards, there probably aren't any other environmental hazards that are so global in nature, affecting so many people, and which we basically know is coming but have decided to delay doing anything about yet.

    The sea's level has already risen significantly (if you happen to live in the Maldives, or Bangladesh, or any low-lying area), and as they rise more (gradually, as you said), there will be tens or hundres of billions of $$ spent on sea-walls, relocations, and eventually - I have zero doubt - geo-engineering projects. We're a tinkering species, and we're bound to try lowering the temp on a global scale, whether it's giant carbon scrubbers, or painting a few deserts white, or whatever.

    It's the unintended consequences of our inevitable tinkering that worry me more than the actual sea-rise (which is probably going to be in the 1 - 3 foot range by 2050, high enough to need a lot of sea-walls and dikes)
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    Image of pete1061 pete1061
    11/29/09

    @Kirkaiya: Yes, the unintended consequences of tinkering concern me as well. They are already spraying stuff into the atmosphere to seed more clouds and block sunlight on the assumption that the globe is warming. Though there isn't a consensus to support warming.
    Hence, the language shift to "climate change" rather then "global warming".
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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    02:46 AM

    @pete1061: In fact, there is a consensus that the Earth is warming. I live and work in Thailand, and the Thai government's own measurements of temperature changes have alarmed them, and the rising sea-level is already causing problems for Bangkok, which operates massive pumps in some areas to pump out sea-water.

    In addition, the Chinese government (which has collected its own data using both its own satellites and ground-based centers for *decades*) have reached the same conclusions that NASA has - the Earth is warming up, and human activity is the primary driver of the rise in temperature.

    Americans tend to have this very "inward" focused idea that somehow, everything is tied to their own internal politics. But the truth is that Japan, China, and even the Russian Federation all monitor the Earth's temperature from space, and all have independent data in general agreement: the Earth is warming up. The reason it's generally referred to as "climate change" is the realization that although the mean temperature will rise, it will be non-uniform: some places may actually have lower "low tempatures" than before, while other areas will have much higher "high" temps.

    @Jim-Bob Sadly, sometimes the "fear mongers" are essentially correct. In this case, given that countries who have no interest in helping American environmentalists, such as China and Russia, have independently reached the same basic conclusions based on their own research, and their own climate models. Additionally, Japan built a massive supercomputer of their own, with which they have built increasingly accurate models of the climate, using their own data.

    It's simply not possible for any human conspiracy to be so large, that China, Russia, Japan, and every other country with monitoring equipment is "conspiring" to "get research grant money". That's actually absurd.
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    Image of liveinabin liveinabin
    11/28/09

    In reply to I Wouldn't Mind Living in Post-Apocalypse New York
    Ugh. We have to suffer the apocalypse AND High School Musical? No fair.
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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    11/27/09

    In reply to I Wouldn't Mind Living in Post-Apocalypse New York

    The main photo, with the gondolas, looks very suspiciously like much of Bangkok, to be honest (which also has some 10 million or more people).

    I *literally* take a "water taxi" (which looks a bit like that gondola, but with a motor) to my client's office every day, through Bangkok's canal system. The only thing missing from post-flood NYC is all the cute Thai girls!
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    Image of F1Morgan F1Morgan
    11/27/09

    @Kirkaiya: Yeah I have been to Bangkok and its one of those places you need a stiff drink on the flight back to assess and rationalize the things you did there....
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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    11/27/09

    @F1Morgan: I've been here so long now, I think nobody makes a drink stiff enough for me to do that, lol. Maybe if I start main-lining grain...hmmmmm

    One thing that's scary is that Bangkok already has giant pumps working 24/7 pumping water out of some areas, because the whole city is slowly sinking while the sea is rising. Some parts of downtown (Silom especially) are sometimes under a foot or more of rainwater, during flash-floods in the rainy season. Nothing like being trapped at work because your office is surrounded by a foot of dirty water, complete with swimming rats, about 1 mile from one of the largest shopping malls in the world (Siam Paragon).
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    11/27/09

    In reply to I Wouldn't Mind Living in Post-Apocalypse New York
    Optimistic Post Apocalyptic scenario?
    Not only people managed somehow to keep electricity, but also invented some way of purifying the putrid city water...

    Anyway, nice ideas. Not very impressive execution though... they look more like rough collage concepts than concluded pieces.
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    Image of BeerManMike BeerManMike
    11/27/09

    In reply to I Wouldn't Mind Living in Post-Apocalypse New York
    All of these "imaginations" of future worlds don't take into account that the world has limited resources. Does everyone think we can build such things in 100, 200 years from now when most natural resources run out in 50-75 years? Im talking metals, stones, etc...
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    Image of jepzilla jepzilla
    11/27/09

    @BeerManMike: Conservation of matter would like a word with you.

    The only thing we can truly run out of is free energy, and our free energy ball is still under warranty for another 5 billion years.
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    Image of pete1061 pete1061
    11/28/09

    @BeerManMike: Us humans are incredibly resourceful creatures. If one thing runs out, we will find something else. Only a major meteor impact or yellowstone would send us back to the old, agrarian, horse & cart lifestyle.
    Depleted resources will just force people to find new ones.
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    MrEvil promoted this comment pete1061 was starred pete1061 was unstarred
    Image of BeerManMike BeerManMike
    11/28/09

    @jepzilla: [www.newscientist.com]

    Sure ok, keep telling yourself that.
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    Image of kalleboo kalleboo
    11/27/09

    In reply to I Wouldn't Mind Living in Post-Apocalypse New York
    When I saw the thumbnail for this article in Top Sites I thought it was a picture of Osaka, which kind of looks like that.
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    11/28/09


    @kalleboo: [www.flickr.com]
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    Image of Intelext Intelext
    11/27/09

    In reply to I Wouldn't Mind Living in Post-Apocalypse New York
    I wanted to live in Post-Apocalypse New York after i saw "I am legend". Sleeping with a gun, hunting for food, breaking into random cars and driving them around.
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    Image of njdevil njdevil
    11/27/09

    @Intelext: post apocalyptic new york sounds a lot like pre-apocalyptic new jersey
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    Image of blash blash
    11/27/09

    @njdevil: Tru dat lol
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    Image of Gordonium Gordonium
    11/27/09

    @njdevil: I'm visiting my mom in NJ for Thanksgiving, and I can vouch for this.

    THE HORROR.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/27/09

    @njdevil: True, but only northern NJ. The rest of the state hasn't gotten that bad yet.
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    Image of Jacubious Jacubious
    11/27/09

    In reply to I Wouldn't Mind Living in Post-Apocalypse New York
    Was the this apocalypse caused by raging estuaries?
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