When you think of underground cities, you think of the old city, examples of which can also be found in our country. underground cities may have come. These cities were often living quarters built to escape enemy attacks or to protect themselves from natural disasters. In some cases these cities were ‘sacred’ areas.

However, none of them were permanent and people continued to live above ground rather than underground and built their major cities above ground. So what kept people from living underground? If necessary, completely abandon the aboveground and establish huge cities underground. Can we continue our lives without seeing the sky?

Now imagine a scenario where the human species has to live underground.

Let’s say something happened that we realized a great danger to the planet was approaching, 50 years later the above ground will turn into a place of mischief and our only escape is to go underground… Actually part is of this scenario really because probably in 50 years it will be terrible to live above ground but okay let’s say ‘let’s say’ to that part…

Let’s do this scenario. Let’s evaluate countries by ignoring borders and economic inequalities. Because otherwise underpopulated and wealthy developed countries can solve this problem relatively easily for themselves and leave the rest of the world to fend for themselves.

Breathing underground and feeding yourself means a lot of money…

We can attribute our first justifications to meeting our most “indispensable” needs above ground. First of all, we as humans need to breathe, and underground this would not be possible without the cumbersome and costly advanced ventilation systems. Even to breathe, it was necessary to set up special ventilation systems with super technologies and spend an astonishing amount of money on them. In addition, serious studies should have been done by calculating the depth we need to descend and taking into account problems such as pressure and heat…

As humans, we also get our food from aboveground sources. In other words, living underground means an extra costly process for food. Maybe underground We would certainly find a way to farm, but again, it would mean another expense. Or livestock activities Think about it… So feeding underground is not easy at all…

People probably live in the underground cities they built hundreds of years ago to escape their aggressive enemies be less picky about dinnersThey were in a very different place to us when it comes to ‘comfort’. Perhaps what made them less attractive was the fact that beyond their obligations, they were not like us. And of course, in this scenario, they knew they could go out again…

It is also not easy to leave the sunlight and our natural environment behind…

Plus, what we’re talking about here isn’t just a romantic “we can’t stop walking among lush trees as the sun warms our skin” scenario. Sunlight, fresh air and ‘landscape’ for human health it means a lot.

Situations such as insufficient sunlight and staying indoors for a long time have serious negative consequences for human health. From sleep disorders to hormonal imbalances It causes many psychological and physical illnesses.

So if we want to live underground in a healthy way We need to find permanent solutions to problems such as light, clean air and natural environment.

Our psychology will not only be affected by the lack of sun and fresh air…

The first thing that the thought of being underground means to most people ‘dead’. The underground is a dark, eerie, dangerous place in our minds. What if we suddenly fall under hundreds of feet of ground and a wall above us? What if the underground city floods? How can we be saved?

Each of these questions can have a clear answer to the power of engineering marvels. However, extreme based on primitive instincts and has already taken over our subconscious To what extent is it possible to completely remove these fears? Or how can we keep millions of people with claustrophobia peacefully underground?

It may be possible to build a city underground, but the process is very difficult.

Let’s look at some technical issues. ”We accomplished this hundreds of years ago, even from a much more primitive point of view, can’t we do it now?you can say.

But such a huge project means too many challenges to tackle and too many questions to solve. Only think of utilities such as water and sewer. A process will have to be built in the opposite direction.

In addition, to dig for miles, carving rocks, using materials to construct buildings and construction equipment underground It is necessary to count the seemingly incredible difficulties, such as …

Of course also There is the issue of water. Since the planet’s groundwater resources are rapidly depleting, supplying an underground city with clean water sounds like a difficult problem to solve. When you think about all this, it is very difficult to build a city like Zion of the Matrix and continue our lives there. it seems impossible. Fortunately, we are not in a terrifying dystopia being taken over by machines. at least for now… Just kidding!

There are places in the world today where people live underground for various reasons.

Although, as we said at the beginning of the article, humanity Although it will not completely leave the surface and settle underground, The concept of living underground is a reality that has applications in today’s world.

Special in big cities that are getting crowded by the day It is known to have gone underground due to the lack of more space above ground. One of the greatest examples in this regard is Beijing.

With the high population and the rising cost of living in a “normal” house, people in Beijing It has made its home in bunkers built years ago for the risk of nuclear war. Living in glassless, bare concrete “houses” in these regions has been controversial in recent years, but many people would stay in shelters for economic reasons.

Another example is Coober Pedy in Australia. Here the situation is slightly different. People ‘semi-underground’They live in houses built a few meters underground. The reason is temperature. The region is so hot that people have found the solution by living underground. However, since the area is already a mining area, the transition to subterranean life in this region was not very expensive. Of course, it is not possible to call this city an “underground city”.

of this kind In addition to the forced underground migrationsArchitects, engineers and urban planners will believe that if people continue to push to live in big cities, the world that more land use will be required in many of the major cities. is thinking. The reason is simple; there will be no space above the ground.

For example busy city in singapore And the scarcity of space is so high that projects have already started that lean underground as a solution to this problem. First research on this topic in 2001 The work of this mini underground city, called Underground Science City, has been going on for many years.

Even the time such projects take and the huge budget they require show how difficult it is for ‘all of humanity to leave the surface and live underground’.

For years to come, we could live in inverted skyscrapers built meters underground, perhaps take an elevator underground, and do our shopping in an underground shopping mall. But it doesn’t seem possible that we could spend our whole lives underground…