Flying City

Seaaborne swimming isles have been found in literary works since Homer's Ulysses, wrote towards the end of the eighth Century BC, describes the Isle of Aeolia. Jonathan Swift portrayed Laputa in the novel Gulliver's Travels (1726), an insular city hovering in the skies. Buckminster Fuller and Shoji Sadao suggested the building of a 1.6 kilometre large thermalship in 1960, which they named Cloud Nine.

Besides Venus, sci-fi has suggested swimming towns on several other planets. for example, the city of Venus is the most important. Swimming towns, for example, could also enable the establishment of the three external gases, since the gases do not have fixed shells. The Daedalus project of the British Interplanetary Society was conceived in 1978 to build swimming plants in the Jupiter atmosphere that would refine the helium-3 to make propellant for an interplanetary well.

As Michael McCollum states, Saturn's "surface gravity" (i.e. the apparent stratum of clouds where the air is at about the same level as that of the Earth) is very near to that of the Earth, and in his novel The Clouds of Saturn, he imagined towns hovering in the saturating atmospheres where lift is provided by atomic hulls fueled by fission reactions.

In her only SF novel, Flotating Worlds (1975), Cecelia Holland settled Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus with mutated people, the Styth, in swimming cites. Poul Anderson's novel orient Shall Rose shows an aerostatic city named Skyholm, which is situated above today's France. Tangled Lands, a compilation of shorts by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell, refers to a prodigal city named Jhandpara, once propelled by spells but eaten by magically searching blackberries.

The Ringworld Engineers is a novel in which Louis Wu searches for a way to rescue the Ringworld by searching for information in the libraries of swimming town. The Airhaven is a swimming city in the Mortal Engines Qartet, which has risen into the sky by placing airbags to prevent towns from trying to feed on it after communal Darwinism.

Charlie Stross's novel Saturn's Children begins in a swimming city on Venus. The Sultan of Clouds shows swimming towns in the Venus ambience and flying blimps. Once the WWII had evolved, all beings began to be alternately the beings that kept the city going (and distracted the constant attacking forces that had been generated during the war).

with the help of everyone. James Blish's James Blish City in Flight serial proposes a world in which towns are driven away from Earth by a fictitious spinizzy propulsion. War of Powers ", a serial by Robert E. Vardeman and Victor Milan, shows a sky city governed by a breed of humans known as the native sky, which captured the city from its native reptile population.

This city is driven by darkness and hovers in a fixed patterns over 5 superficial towns. Miéville's 2002 novel The Scar, the Armada in China, a swimming mobilized city-state of pirates, has grown in the oceans of the Bas-Lag from several vessels and yachts over hundreds of years of evolution. Prince Vultan and his flying falcons live in the 1936 Flash Gordon series of films in Skycity, a cosmopolitan city that hovers in the skies.

The Firefly sequel "Trash" features the globe's Bellerophon as the setting for scores of swimming properties with "graceful life, sea view and state-of-the-art security". "Atlantis from the Stargate Galaxy is a likely example of a swimming city. Even though the city vessel weights several million tonnes, it is capable of swimming on the surface, and since its energetic screen can keep the interior almost unlimited, it should be able to swim in a particularly tight area.

Stargate SG-1's Nox have swimming towns. The Hallelujah Mountains in Avatar are large swimming isles that appear as a battleground in the movie's highpoint. The Metro City in the movie Astro Boy floats above the ground. The Steamboy movie showed a "steam lock" that was basically a swimming city held in the sky by means of ground level vapor.

Miyazaki's Hayao Laputa: Castle in the Sky movie includes a swimming city concealed in the sky named "Laputa", a name derived from Swift's Gulliver's Travel. One Piece are Sky Islands, towns that have been constructed on a certain kind of earth-like layer of cloth that has harsh, land-like characteristics that allow civilisations to cross soil and on which they can construct with the same cloth of cloth, together with an oceanic cloth that consistently forms a tight parallels to a regular earth-bound islet.

These celestial bodies appear on a regular basis - and yet are so seldom seen that even the inhabitants of the Grand Line see them as legend - thanks to the exceptional surroundings of the Grand Line, an aquatorial oceans orbiting the earth and possessing all the mythic meteorological conditions, isles, and even mythic bees.

ThunderCats 2011 animation features a bird man racing above the skies in a technologically vibrant city known as Avista, driven by Tech Stone, one of Mumm-Ra's four Power Stones, and hovering in the sky. My Little Pony: friendship is magical, an interactive TV show, shows a city entirely made up of a cloud known as Cloudsdale, a play on Clydesdale horses.

Minecraft has a swimming paradise known as The End, inhabited by a group of highly ominous-looking humans by the name of Endermen. Exire, the home of the cast out half elves, is a swimming city in this world. The Chrono Trigger shows the Zeal Empire, a magic empire on a swimming isle, which originated in 12000 BC. City-in-the-Sky, the 7th layer of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess-dungeons.

Metropolis Prime 3: Metroid shows SkyTown, a swimming city on the Elysia world. Mom 3 has a swimming city called New Pork City, which also appear in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The Skies of Arcadia and Skies of Arcadia Legends game includes several swimming towns. Dalaran is a big city in World of Warcraft that hovers over the crystal sound forest in the centre of Northrend.

Eclipse Phase role-playing is set against the backdrop of swimming towns on Venus and Saturn. The Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic Adventure offer Angel Iceland, an offshore destination that swims with the force of the Master Emerald. Vane, the city of the moon's magicians: Silver Star Harmony. The Final Fantasy shows floatating castle, a swimming city resembling a spacestation.

Final Fantasy V shows a swimming city called Ronka Ruins. Final Fantasy XII has several in the shape of hard ground island that float in the sky from mysteriously loaded rocks that inhabit the ground that build the foundations of the swimming city, Bhujerba being the only one to have been seen first hand in the series.

The Sanctuary is the swimming junction town of Borderlands 2. Thousand-Year Door, is a small town hovering above Rogueport and its surroundings. xenogears has a swimming city blimp called Solaris. Skiborn is a commercially available game for RPG Makers that offers a swimming city. Heart Forth, Alicia is an independent RPG pack for the computer that offers a swimming oyster isle.

XENOBADELE CLASSICLES xenobadele classicles is a sci-fi role-playing Wii offering a swimming city, Alcamoth. Wakusei Tokyo Planetokio is a sci-fi adventurous videogame for the Sony PlayStation, where the major campaign will take place in swimming city. Yusha Kimino is a sci-fi role-playing Nintendo DS RPG that offers a swimming country, Midalias.

On RuneScape, each faction is associated with a swimming Isle, made by Armadyl, known as the "Clan Fortress". The Cave Story is completely based on a swimming isle. The Bunkum Lagoon in little BigPlanet 3 is a swimming city in the skies that is on the planet Bunkum (however, the name indicates that it is on the surface and marine animals are strongly represented in this phase of the game).

Dresden Codak is a web comic that features the city of Nephilopolis, a city built from the shipwreck of a huge swimming old robotic. "Colonisation of Venus". "Colonize Venus with swimming cities." "Thermic structure of the atmosphere of Venus." Hunten et al.,,, D. M. Venus. Wolkenstadt".