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make a bunch of those compact walkable linked micro-district cities i have designed in Workers & Resources
where everyone basically lives in a luxury resort designed to cater to their needs while they aren't at work
shit didn't read the bad idea part
Space Elevator
Commuter dirigibles.
Halo
New city built all at once before the 5over1s and suburban sprawl get their hands on it. Get into the street car nerd, we're going to the missing middle.
I'm drunk enough and surly enough to say it:
Executives, CEOs, Billionaires, the ruling class. Put them on cattle cars that run on time, somewhere with ovens and walls for them to go against, fill their old boardrooms with videos of it happening as a warning.
A network of modernized aquaducts, superconducting energy backbone and high-speed rail corridors that are also parallel to nature preserve greenbelts.
The water, eletric, transit supergrid.
bad idea? big floating city, stargate atlantis style
i just think it'd be fun
upper atmosphere aerosol injection geoengineering hail-mary to try and save a few million species and a few billion humans
Bring back the Age Of Sail. It's gonna take immense amounts of government funding, it'll cripple global shipping if it's successful, it will definitely cripple national shipping industries and every supply chain coming here all for ~~no benefit at all~~ cool sea shanties, high employment (need about 200 people to off-load one ship and it'll take about a week) and cool ships. I wanna see a 6-masted fullrigger, I wanna see what crazy shit we can come up with.
Either that or a persecution of all farmers that will make Stalin look like a lamb and rehabilitation of the soil, though that isn't a bad idea.
Fund the arts too much. A statue in every home.
Build a mountain. We don't have one, I want one.
Sink Lynetteholmen (an actual megaproject being undertaken right now that is so immensely stupid you would not believe me if I described it). Drown everyone involved in it's construction.
Dig a deep hole. Deeper than the soviet deep hole.
Bio-engineer a Kraken.
Make zebras a horse.
Teach rats how to use guns. Teach seagulls how to use guns. Have them wipe each other out, and then eat fries in peace.
Make guns, but for crabs.
Make France a real place.
Make Britain a fake place.
A chair for your pants.
NEOM, purely for the sake of amusement
Dyson sphere
soil-melanin project: build massive reservoirs and genocide the desert
worldwide 2 child policy (with exceptions for indigenous peoples)
job rotations: everyone (including me) shovels some shit, basically all jobs are put into a 4-year rotation period since degrees and work experience are useless in reality (except for a few highly specialized STEM jobs)
I have this idea of a new transport technology. It’s basically a monorail except rather than share carriages with people you have your own like a car. The monorail can deliver you to your driveway with it branches. It sits > 10ft above ground allowing some of the old roads to be for bikes, children and redeveloped into green spaces. The monorail sits on posts that means it can be installed alongside existing roads whilst it takes off.
Cars/cabs will be computer controlled and self-driving, obviously unable to leave the rail, and can be summoned or shared as a family. Self-parking. Take you home drunk. Usable by teens independently. Powered by the rail they’re on. Technology wise each cab has an electric motorbike engine and is otherwise your own customisable swinging box. One day you could pack your shit into it then sleep inside and wake up on a far away beach for your holiday.
I would hire Dahir Insaat and they just build whatever crazy shit they come up with.
geo-engineering to reverse or ameliorate the heating of the earth's atmosphere
I would make Robot Jocks real
several dams on the east coast of the US at extremely obvious points to prevent flooding
it's a bad idea because New York City doesn't fucking deserve it and the entire climate-denial political class (which is the entire political class) would raise fascist hell to prevent their own fucking homes from being embraced by the sea
pneumatic tube transportation like in futurama
vacuum tube train
if it can work in OpenTTD it can work in real life, right?
You know the Titans in Titanfall 2? Those. Especially Scorch.
A cannon that shoots you to your destination and you land on a bouncy pad to break the fall. Of course, AI would be used to guide your trajectory so there's no room for human error
RODS FROM GOD BB!
I'm gonna get everyone to dress like the Jetsons so it at least looks like the future
Giant space project like a man-made ring around the planet. It'd be so fucking cool and it could help develop technologies that simply don't exist yet. Now finding the resources for such a project is where it gets tricky.
bering strait high speed rail
but on steroids.