Can Humanity Build Giant Cities and Live Underground?

When you think of underground cities, you think of the ancient city, examples of which are also found in our country. underground cities may have come. These cities were often living quarters built to escape enemy attacks or to protect themselves from natural disasters. In some cases, these cities were ‘sacred’ areas.

But none of them were permanent and people continued to live above ground rather than underground, and to build their big cities above ground. So what was holding people back from living underground? If necessary, leaving the above ground completely and establishing huge cities underground. Can we continue our life without seeing the sky?

Now imagine a scenario where the human species has to live underground.

Let’s say something happened that we realized that a great danger was approaching to the planet, 50 years later the above ground will turn into a place of doom and our only escape is to move underground… Actually, part of this scenario is real because probably 50 years from now it will be horrible to live above ground but okay, let’s say ‘let’s say’ to that part…

Let’s do this scenario. Let’s evaluate countries by ignoring borders and economic inequalities. Because otherwise, low-population and rich developed countries can solve this problem relatively easily for themselves and leave the rest of the world to die.

Breathing underground and feeding yourself means a lot of money…

We can attribute our first justifications to meeting our most ‘indispensable’ needs above ground. First of all, we as humans need to breathe, and this wouldn’t be possible underground without the cumbersome and costly advanced ventilation systems. Even to be able to breathe, it was necessary to set up special ventilation systems with super technologies and spend an astonishing amount of money on them… In addition, serious studies should have been done by calculating the depth we need to descend and taking into account the problems such as pressure and heat…

Also, as humans, we get our food from above-ground sources. In other words, living underground means an extra costly process for food. Maybe underground We would definitely find a way to farm, but again, it would mean a new expense item. Or livestock activities Think about it… So feeding underground is not easy at all…

People living in the underground cities they built hundreds of years ago to escape their aggressive enemies are probably being less picky about dinnersThey stood in a completely different place than us when it comes to ‘comfort’. Perhaps what made them less compelling was the fact that they weren’t like us next to their obligations. And of course, in this scenario, they knew they could go out again…

It is not easy to leave the sunlight and our natural environment behind either…

Moreover, what we’re talking about here isn’t just a romantic ‘we can’t stop walking among lush trees with the sunshine warming our skin’ scenario. Sunlight, fresh air and ‘landscape’ for people’s health it means a lot.

Situations such as insufficient sunlight and staying indoors for a long time have serious negative effects on human health. From sleep disorders to hormonal imbalances It causes many psychological and physical diseases.

So if we want to live underground in a healthy way We need to find permanent solutions to problems such as light, clean air and natural environment.

Our psychology will not only be affected by the lack of sun and fresh air…

The first thing that the thought of being underground means to most people ‘death’. The underground is a dark, uncanny, dangerous place in our minds. What if we suddenly fall under hundreds of meters of soil and a wall above us? What if the underground city floods? How can we be saved?

Each of these questions may have clear answers from the power of engineering marvels. However, extremely based on primitive instincts and has already taken over our subconscious To what extent is it possible to completely eliminate these fears? Or how can we keep millions of people with claustrophobia peaceful underground?

It may be possible to build a city underground, but the process is very difficult.

Let’s take a look at some technical difficulties. ”We achieved this hundreds of years ago even from a much more primitive point of view, can’t we do it now?‘ you can say.

But such a huge project means too many challenges to deal with and too many questions to solve. Just consider utilities like water and sewer. A process that proceeds in the opposite direction will have to be built.

In addition, digging for kilometers, carving rocks, using materials to build buildings and construction equipment underground It is necessary to count the seemingly unbelievable difficulties such as…

Of course also There is the issue of water. As the planet’s groundwater resources are rapidly depleted, providing clean water to an underground city sounds like a difficult problem to solve. When you think about all this, it is very difficult to build a city like Zion of the Matrix and continue our lives there. it seems impossible. Fortunately, we are not in a frightening dystopia taken over by machines. at least for now… Just kidding!

There are places in the world where people live underground for different reasons.

Although, as we said at the beginning of the article, humanity Although it will not completely leave the surface and settle underground, The concept of living underground is a reality that has applications in today’s world.

Especially in big cities that are getting crowded day by day It is known that because there is no more space above ground, it heads underground. One of the biggest examples in this regard is Beijing.

With the high population and the rising cost of living in a ‘normal’ home, people in Beijing It has made its home in bunkers built years ago for the risk of nuclear war. Living in glassless, bare concrete ‘houses’ in these regions has been controversial in the past years, but many people are said to be staying in shelters for economic reasons.

Another example is Coober Pedy in Australia. Here the situation is slightly different. People ‘semi-underground’They live in houses built a few meters below the ground. The reason is temperature. The region is so hot that people have found the solution by living underground. However, since the area is already a mining area, making the transition to living underground was not very costly in this region. Of course, it is not possible to call this town an ‘underground town’.

of this kind In addition to the forced underground migrationsArchitects, engineers, and urban planners will believe that if people continue to insist on living in big cities, the world’s that in many of its major cities more use of the ground will be required. is thinking. The reason is simple; there will be no space above ground.

for example crowded city in singapore And the scarcity of space is at such a high level that projects that turn underground as a solution to this problem have already started. Initial research on this subject in 2001 The work of this mini underground city, named Underground Science City, has been going on for many years.

Even the time that such projects take and the huge budget they require shows how difficult it is for ‘all of humanity to leave the surface and start living underground’.

In the coming years, we can live in upside down skyscrapers built meters under the ground, maybe go underground with an elevator and do our shopping in an underground mall. But it doesn’t seem possible that we can spend our whole lives underground…