[Clave]

Belly button

[General Freak]

Let's stop arguing and turn Earth into a Coruscant.

If that fails, er, I vote for the Eternal City. ;P

[Mefustae]

Originally posted by Ford Prefect
Don't you guys have a bigass ozone hole?

Okay, 1) That more South, over the Pole with the limits only occaisionally reaching over Tazzy. And 2) that's because you bastards up in the Northern Hemisphere churned out so much CFCs, remember that ALL that crap flies right down South and now we get burned if we're out in the Sun for 20 minutes without sunblock. You guys up there can stay out there for ages, and you don't have the 'burning' feeling when you're in the sun that we've gotten used to.

But, still, Sydney will become the World Capital by default, as - should the world climate continue as it's going right now - the Northern Hemisphere should blow itself up quite effectively, and you lads gone, we're number one baby!!

[Flipside]

Heh,. If you want a world city, you'd need to create an area of land which is it's own 'country' similar to the Vatican in Italy, but much more Neutral, I don't think you could build a World City inside any sovereign Country, it's kind of a contradiction of terms

[Sandwich]

To be blunt, a "World Capital" not only doesn't make sense, but can't realistically work while there are seperate nations on the planet.

[Grug]

Originally posted by Raa
Canberra. I expect Australia to rise up and conquer mankind anyways...

LoL! *Cheers*

Go Raa, the brainwashed american soon to be aussie!



I'd say build a new city somewhere in the Pacific in international waters, aka Atlantis. <. .>

[Fineus]

New York.

Watch any Hollywood movie - especially action flicks. The chances are it's set in New York.

With all that already happening there - it makes sense to make it the World Capital as well!

[Black Wolf]

It'd be Geneva.

[Ace]

Originally posted by Sandwich


Jerusalem is not only at the convergence point of 3 continents, but it's already the world's belly-button and, if you listen to propoganda, the cause of much of the world's problems. Why not?

Let's make the belly button an "innie" then, and build the 24 hour United-Earth Shopping Mart over the crater!

[Grug]

Bah New York.

And Jerusalem too!

The united world will have no religeon! ^_^

[TopAce]

Capital of the World? Where the World Government will be headquartered. My guess would be Washington or London.

[Scuddie]

Starfleet headquarters is in San Francisco, but  IIRC, the capital of Earth is Paris, no?

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Grug


LoL! *Cheers*

Go Raa, the brainwashed american soon to be aussie!



I'd say build a new city somewhere in the Pacific in international waters, aka Atlantis. <. .>

I read Canberra was the most boring place on Earth, somewhere.  Personally, I'd rather go to Sydney* or soforth.... although you might want somewhere boring as world capital, I guess.

*I'm not sure why Sydney in particular always comes to mind when it comes to places in Oz I'd like to visit.

[Rictor]

Originally posted by Sandwich
To be blunt, a "World Capital" not only doesn't make sense, but can't realistically work while there are seperate nations on the planet.

Not necessarily. Organizations like the EU have a capital city (whether or not its called that). As the world moves towards a centralized government, it's likely to be a gradual transition. Sure, at some point in the future nations will probably disappear, but there's no guaratnee that this will be before the time comes to choose a capital.

Even in a completely centralized global government, there will likely be pseudo-nations ("administrative areas"), simply because of beaurocratic and logistical reaons. Think of the individual States within the US. Or even think of the UN, where all the members submit to a central authority on certain matters, but retain a degree of independece. Right now, the "world capital" could be said to be New York, because that's where the largest, most powerful and only legitimate international government in stationed.

[aldo_14]

Or the component states of the United Kingdom, or of Spain (Basque country, Catalunya spring to mind), Germany, etc.  Most countries have some form of decomposition for historical or logistic reasons.

[pyro-manic]

Originally posted by General Freak
Let's stop arguing and turn Earth into a Coruscant.

Balls to that. I like trees, thankyou very much...

[Nico]

Originally posted by Sandwich


Jerusalem is not only at the convergence point of 3 continents, but it's already the world's belly-button and, if you listen to propoganda, the cause of much of the world's problems. Why not?

To be blunt: because it's a ****ty city?

[TopAce]

Originally posted by pyro-manic


Balls to that. I like trees, thankyou very much...

We can make half of the terrain Coruscant and the other half a big forest.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Rictor
...UN... authority...

*snicker*

Originally posted by Nico
To be blunt: because it's a ****ty city?

You should know better than to diss something you haven't tried/been to/whatever, what with all the France-bashing you get from the Americans.

[Nico]

Bah, let me embrace the Internet (non)culture and shut up