Are These Cities ACTUALLY Possible?

I’m so curious how these cities incorporate their weather protection, I can only imagine the waves if a hurricane was coming!

Ain't no way it only costs 8 billion.

As someone that's grown up on the water building floating structures. It's more difficult than you would ever think to keep a large stucture from ripping apart with the smallest waves. When something weighing tons is jumping up and down just a foot every second it'll turn metal joints into warm butter

Naval engineer here. In current technology, I would say impossible. Ocean surface is so dynamic, it took a special geometry to stay still on the surface of the water without actually swayed or rolled by the waves. That's why ship hulls looks almost similar. Not to mention the sea-sickness people may have on board. And that turtle-shaped city? A big no no.. That's not how we use biomimetics design.

Naval engineer. It's all a pipe dream. The costs to maintain a floating structure are enormous and the longevity is only 40-50urs. Not to mention they are always built to static population sizes with no growth or shrink margins. I mean what would your economic viability be to maintain that kind of community? You still require 100% land based products and support to maintain the thing.

the turtle one is so stupid it's funny, it's straight up a suburban housing area complete with golf carts so you can drive to the rest of the ship

The Maldives one is the only one I see as even having a slight possibility. Natural protection with the lagoon, tested concept, and could be a last resort to deal with rising sea levels in the country

We going back to Atlantis with this one!

I think it could be used by costal areas with a need for space. But I see it connected to land

I love how most of these floating cities is that they seem to be planned around a 365day warm summer day. There are winds, storms and other elements that make most of these ideas unrealistic.

In some Vietnamese, Moken (and I'm sure others) cultures they live on their boats for extended periods of time so vendors create little floating communities for communication and trade. I know whoever builds it wants to own it but if progress were really the goal, they'd invest that money into inventing low cost, spacious, ocean worthy houseboats and a port town for the needs of the people that live on the water. Rich people would buy floating mansions to flex but in the end it's more logical than figuring out how to stop the ocean from doing what it does best.

Missed opportunity with Dogen City. Doujin City was right there. Plus the aquatic location increases tentacle encounter rate.

Cruise ships are floating cities..., make the room paid monthly, and it doesnt include the food , add public and goverment office space on the ship, and voila, its a floating city with below 10k inhabitants

The last one is the most likely as the first two are non starters either from engineering or logistics problems, although I doubt the last one would look anywhere near as cohesive as its portrayed.

Yeah all of those will definitely sink in the face of a bad storm 😂🤣

One of these are gonna turn into god damn Atlantis

I think that the palms in Dubai made it clear that this will never work

All of these ignore how corrosive and bad saltwater is

For those who have watched the TV series Ocean Girl. An underwater city sounds more practical as it can be powered by underwater currents, energy from the waves on the surface floating platform which also gets solar and wind energy. :]

This is like the stepping stone to us building megastructures in space