Posted on 10/06/2015 2:47:50 PM PDT by Kartographer
Telecommunications and tech firm Pegasus Global Holdings is planning to build a full-scale American town in the New Mexico desert, a place which they hope to open to researchers developing technologies for modern living.
Pegasus plans to spend $1billion creating the 15-square-mile town, called CITE, with construction to begin sometime next year and opening as early as 2018.
CITE will include a town big enough for 35,000 people, with a business district downtown surrounded by terraced housing suburbs - but no one will ever live there.
Instead, companies will have the opportunity to test such innovations as driverless vehicles and natural disaster-proof homes in a human-free, practically risk-free, environment.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“Nobody would want to live in that drug war zone”
I live not toooo far from there.
Maybe so....
But my little part of it has had 3X the normal amount of rain this year. I wouldn't be surprised if it was 4X by the end of the year.
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