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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Fractal World: 35th Century Earth

These images I happily found quite by accident, in the initial stages of my exploration into other realms. In this one, I am almost sure I found a future Earth. I do not know whether this future is absolutely certain, or whether I'm only glimpsing at a possibility... Either way, it's fascinating, and I can't wait to explore it more.

35th Century Earth
The year is 3553 ... Earth still spins, orbiting the same old sun. Its atmosphere is no longer breathable, having been irreparably damaged in the 31st century.

The last surface trees died out over two centuries ago and exist now only as the highly prized objects of a hobby only the Elite are able to practise.

The green you see is a bio-synthetic, methane-to-oxygen converting plant grown by EarthCore, the global government organisation. They are the self-appointed caretakers of what is left of the rock in space human beings call home. 

The dark blue you see are water ducts, reaching the surface in order to keep the constantly flowing water cool. 

Energy has never been more abundant since we tapped into the earth's deepest geothermal depths.

The windows exist only because the vast intercity network developed early in the 24th century, covering the earth's entire landmass in just under a 2 centuries. From there, we had only one way to go: down. Before, the richest of the rich claimed surface level residences for the amazing "skyviews" caused by an already changing (though still breathable) atmosphere. Huge hivehomes were built in allocated areas below ground for the poor masses.

Now though, those same ma
sses exist only at the surface, when the atmosphere became poison, the air icy cold, the sky a constant, ominous red-black. The rich dug down, and continue to build lavish underground oasis's while the rest squabble over places to live that have as little atmosphere leaking into them as possible.


Lower Class Residential
A block of lower-class residential homes, a view from an opposite block. This picture taken by an EarthCore Archiver, whose purpose it is to collect information and data for the History Vaults.

Each one of those seemingly singular viewports in fact contains at least 20 homes.



Rural Lands
Nestled deep in a valley, and reminiscent of the ancient 21st century Chinese rice farms, this is a view of one of the once renowned factory farmlands, now, of course, completely abandoned since the Taint (when humans poisoned their atmosphere irreparably in the 31st century). 

The green you see is a bio-synthetic, methane-to-oxygen converting plant grown by EarthCore, the global government organisation. They are the self-appointed caretakers of what is left of the rock in space human beings call home. 

Do not be fooled by the blue tint of what was once verdant, kilometres wide, farmland. It is not water, but cold steel.

2 comments:

  1. Wow! That story is epic! The tiny fractal qualities give an ethereal view into the masses of populace dwelling beneath ducts in the ground.

    One problem with your scenario. You mention "the tainting" which choked out the world with unbreathable methane gas. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse, so would this yield to global warming and boiling seas, rather than an icy nuclear winter scenario?

    Either way, I could definitely see the methane bubble as rapidly cannibalizing the existing life on earth: methane kills life; decaying life releases additional methane. I also believe there are plenty of microbes still existing today that would thrive in the hostile environment, those same primitive microbes which once reshaped a dark, inhospitable world a billion years ago, would later evolve again and change the world back into it's former glory, from a post-apocalyptic wasteland into a lush green world full of fresh oxygen and complex life forms, possibly even inhabited by a wave of new re-evolved dinosaurs, while the descendants of humans de-evolve into gargoyle-like creatures who rule the underworld. In an irony of fate, over millions of years the post-humans adapted to the putrid air, now they can no longer breath fresh air and forever remain trapped within the bowels of the Earth to live out their miserable existance.

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    1. Thanks Alfred =) ... I've been meaning to get back to this particular fractal world to explore it further... That's quite the imagination you have there... Maybe I'll ask you to write some descriptions for a few future images... =)

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