{"id":266,"date":"2008-01-02T18:48:16","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T22:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=266"},"modified":"2008-01-02T18:48:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T22:48:16","slug":"loose-end-tidied-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/266","title":{"rendered":"Loose end, tidied up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Pluvialis&#8217; post on <a href=\"http:\/\/fretmarks.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/underwater.html\">drowned cities<\/a> (and other things) last summer, I spent a week or so racking my brain trying to remember where I&#8217;d read a description of a drowned Thames estuary, complete with underwater buildings being reinhabited. Courtesy of BLDGBLOG&#8217;s excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/bldgblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/comparative-planetology-interview-with.html\">interview<\/a> with Kim Stanley Robinson, I&#8217;ve been whacked over the head with it &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBlue-Mars-Trilogy-Stanley-Robinson%2Fdp%2F0553573357%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1199313997%26sr%3D8-2&#038;tag=hawkdog-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Blue Mars<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=hawkdog-20&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" \/>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The concrete cylinder ended some three meters down, but the ladder continued, down into a big chamber, warm, humid, fishy, and humming withe the noise of several generators in another room or building. The building&#8217;s wall, the floor, the ceilings and windows were all covered by what appeared to be a sheet of clear plastic. They were inside a bubble of some kind of clear material; outside the windows was water, murky and brown, bubbling like dishwater in a sink.<\/p>\n<p>Nirgal&#8217;s face no doubt revealed his surprise; Bly, smiling briefly at the sight, said, &#8220;It was a good strong building. The what-you-might-call sheetrock is something like the tent fabrics you use on Mars, only it hardens. People have been reoccupying quite a few buildings like this, if they&#8217;re the right size and depth. Set a tube and poof, it&#8217;s like blowing glass. So a lot of Sheerness folks are moving back out here, and sailing off the dock or their roof. Tide people we call them. They figure it&#8217;s better than begging for charity in England, eh?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Pluvialis&#8217; post on drowned cities (and other things) last summer, I spent a week or so racking my brain trying to remember where I&#8217;d read a description of a drowned Thames estuary, complete with underwater buildings being reinhabited. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/266\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-scifi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-4i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}