This is what happens to you...
Posted on 06/10/2016 5:47:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The rediscovery of an ancient underground city in Turkey a few years ago was an exciting find—the very kind of exciting find that the internet eats up.
The 5,000-year-old cave villa, found in the city of Nevşehir, is fairly huge, with approximately 3.5 miles of tunnels, and dozens of rooms making up churches, tombs, and other safe spaces.
In comments to National Geographic, Nevşehir Mayor Hasan Ünver noted that there was a bit of a paper trail that went back hundreds of years, but not one that implied that there was an entire city in the area.
"We found documents stating that there were close to 30 major water tunnels in this region," Ünver said.
It's not the first ancient underground city found in Turkey's Cappadocia region—people have been finding them since the 60s—but it's the largest, by far.
These days, urban dwellers think nothing of traveling under the surface as part of their average day. We'll dive into the metro or subway system without thinking anything about it.
But would you spend your entire day there, without walking outside? That sounds like an odd argument to make, but there was a period in which underground cities were seen as a bold, exciting solution to the problems that troubled the metropolis in the 1960s.
It was the revival of a concept that goes back thousands of years. Why didn't it stick?(continued)
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Gravity from below is dangerous enough without adding it from above.
People visited Atlanta Underground. The dream ended abruptly.
So they can hold college classes in the underground city?
Environmental impact studies, NIMBY, white privilege, etc...
dead and buried.
This is what happens to you...
Several times.
Like so many central planning dreams, what happened to underground cities is human nature. People like fresh air outdoors more than indoor air cleaned by a machine, even if there is pollen outside. People like sunshine more than they like overhead lights, even if there are clouds in the open. People are human, and they like the real world rather than a planned and controlled environment.
Haven’t there been reports for years about a great Continuity of Government underground cities and highways? IIRC in various places the hum of the tunneling machine has upset the locals.
If obama had a son...
I remember Superman in the 50s had some dealings with mole men from deep underground.
They really weren’t bad once you got to know them.
And high-speed railroads.
We are, by nature, surface dwellers who need the sun to function properly.
Heh. ‘City of Ember’.
With all the “people” crawling out from under their respective rocks lately and being given special treatment, crawling under one sounds more appealing by the day.
Karl Kolchak had a run-in with a baddie in the Seattle underground played by Richard Anderson (Oscar Goldman).
Kolchak was a great show.
I can picture him with that little 110 camera.
I thought that was Michelle.
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