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Flying Cars
4 July 2007 17:51It was the flying cars that drove the buildings upwards.
We solved the problem of mid-air collisions by equipping each car with a repulsion field. It was a low-level variant on the engines that used gravity mirrors to shape the laws so the cars could be massless. They bounced away from each other like magnets with similar charges.
Accidents didn’t happen but most buildings were not equipped with these fields. Chain reactions and bad drivers routinely scraped the buildings and caused chunks of granite and glass to fall down to the sidewalks.
This made it dangerous to walk outside.
The repulsor fields weakened on the cars up around the height of fifty or sixty stories.
Walkways equipped with fields were built between buildings more and more often. Ground level sidewalks became deserted.
Cars would moor outside any window without lights and rob to their hearts content. Every window within reach of a flying car suddenly became a ground level apartment.
Bars sprouted along with security systems and streetlights up the sides of every building.
Every roof under 50 stories became a landing pad/parking lot.
In order to get peace, architecture went up. New materials were invented and the fields themselves were used to cancel gravity’s yearning.
The cities became porcupines, needles tipped with space.
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We solved the problem of mid-air collisions by equipping each car with a repulsion field. It was a low-level variant on the engines that used gravity mirrors to shape the laws so the cars could be massless. They bounced away from each other like magnets with similar charges.
Accidents didn’t happen but most buildings were not equipped with these fields. Chain reactions and bad drivers routinely scraped the buildings and caused chunks of granite and glass to fall down to the sidewalks.
This made it dangerous to walk outside.
The repulsor fields weakened on the cars up around the height of fifty or sixty stories.
Walkways equipped with fields were built between buildings more and more often. Ground level sidewalks became deserted.
Cars would moor outside any window without lights and rob to their hearts content. Every window within reach of a flying car suddenly became a ground level apartment.
Bars sprouted along with security systems and streetlights up the sides of every building.
Every roof under 50 stories became a landing pad/parking lot.
In order to get peace, architecture went up. New materials were invented and the fields themselves were used to cancel gravity’s yearning.
The cities became porcupines, needles tipped with space.
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