What's in a name?
Pegasus. Global. Holdings. Mmmm...
Can there be a better name for an evil concern bent on world domination?
Inside the Skynet ghost town built by bunker-based boffins
It's an empty city in the middle of the New Mexico desert ringed by a security perimeter. The wind will blow down barren streets, whisper through a vacant school, round high-rise offices cleared of commuters and out through lonely houses in suburbia. Unseen boffins will beaver away in underground bunkers. CITE layout But …
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Thursday 17th May 2012 20:34 GMT Paul_Murphy
Re: empty cities
Film studios,
Advertising agencies,
Maybe people learning to demolish buildings ... or build them
LARP,
Emergency response training.
Traffic light management testing
Robot car testing
I can see that there would be a lot of interest in being able to hire a 'deserted' city. Good idea and handy that the USA has so much empty space.
ttfn
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Thursday 17th May 2012 11:19 GMT Michael 28
Re: Westworld?... Any one remember the New Avengers?
Copy /paste from imdb.with adlib.
Plot Summary for
"The New Avengers" Complex (1977)
The New Avengers fly to Toronto, Canada to learn the identity of KGB assassin X-41, aka Scapina. Unfortunately all their contacts end up dead before they are able to spill the beans. Also, Gambit keeps getting arrested by the Canadian police and Purdey finds herself trapped in a ultra modern building........whick KILLS! .
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Wednesday 16th May 2012 13:59 GMT Captain Save-a-ho
@ laird cummings
Oh really? You don't think the human traffickers responsible for much of the illegal border crossings wouldn't relish a police-free, people-free place to use as a base of operations? You should definitely keep to your bigotted, small-minded life and leave real crime to the big boys.
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Thursday 17th May 2012 13:02 GMT Figgus
Re: @ laird cummings
Yeah, because the best way to hide is to be the only surface dwelling people in an empty town monitored 24/7 by hundreds of underground technicians. Certainly the traffickers would go completely unnoticed.
To be honest, I don't know if I should flame you or feel sorry for you. You should definitely keep to your pretentious, small-minded life and leave real thinking to the big boys
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Tuesday 15th May 2012 13:24 GMT KrisM
another potentially lucrative income...
Surprised they did not mention, or consider, the use of this empty, all american city for Hollywood filming. Can think of loads of films in the last 10 years that would have happily paid to use a empty city for a couple of days (thinking high risk car chases, post- Apocalypse sci-fi, urban environment for large number of extras etc) , so long as they tidied up when they left. Would imagine the film location rights would be as profitable as renting it out for different trials and projects!
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Tuesday 15th May 2012 16:22 GMT Anonymous Coward
"I have a city that needs power but I don't have any inhabitants, so once I run the city power, the additional energy that I produce I will sell to the local power company, same with the water and communications and other output we have," Brumley explained. "People forget that cities really are big producers of consumable resources and this city will be the same."
Is it just me or is the above just complete crap, cities are sold utilities/consumable resources by usually private companies who pay/invest in their production, the only way that his argument makes sense is if he's going into the utility business, or is just a front to launder large amounts of cash.....
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Tuesday 15th May 2012 17:14 GMT ArmanX
He *is* going into the utility business.
If this is supposed to mimic a city, it will need power, water, waste, and other facilities. However, since there is no one there to use those services, the city becomes a huge exporter. Cities use a lot of water and energy; the fact that they consume all the resources they create (and then some) doesn't mean that they aren't still producing. And all those resources have to go somewhere; might as well sell them, right?
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Wednesday 16th May 2012 02:53 GMT HeNe
@AC 15 May 16:22GMT: Brumley was spouting semi-crap
o Locally-generated power: can be easily sold to power companies.
o Locally-pumped-from-the-ground fresh water: sketchy. Is clean water so costly there that it really is economical to buy, maintain, and fuel a fleet of stainless-steel-tanked semi trucks to transport clean water to potential buyers, or to build a pipeline and pumps to the nearest major municipality?
o Local sewage treatment facilities: sketchy. Same issue as with water, as noted above.
o Communications: bullshit. Unless you've got data-carrying capability from Point A to Point B, where Point A and Point B are places anybody actually cares sending data to and from, you've got nothing to sell to communications companies. Comm companies aren't going to pay to establish links to/from Robot Town unless there's a significant market there.
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Thursday 17th May 2012 13:20 GMT Figgus
Re: @AC 15 May 16:22GMT: Brumley was spouting semi-crap
[i]o Communications: bullshit. Unless you've got data-carrying capability from Point A to Point B, where Point A and Point B are places anybody actually cares sending data to and from, you've got nothing to sell to communications companies. Comm companies aren't going to pay to establish links to/from Robot Town unless there's a significant market there.
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True, unless you start thinking of large dish arrays or testing of point to point communications (microcells and such)...
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