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[Urist Da Vinci]

http://ca.gizmodo.com/5769445/helsinkis-underground-shadow-city

http://www.wdc2012helsinki.fi/en/news/world%E2%80%99s-first-underground-city-plan

Tunnels everywhere through bedrock. How dwarfy. Nobody *lives* down there, AFAIK, but there are factories and swimming pools. It is not just basement levels, but a secondary underground transportation and utility network. At 4:55 in the video on the first link, it says the tunnel network is 70m (230 ft) underground and shows a picture of a very tall spiral staircase. That's roughly equivalent to the distance from the surface to the first cavern in DF.

[NW_Kohaku]

I remember a History Channel documentary about when they built Disneyworld.  Apparently, they built the whole infrastructure for running the entire park on the ground level in a big concrete bunker, then paved over that and put the park on top.  Basically, there is an entire "subterranean" supply network and employee areas and such beneath the "surface".

[Urist Imiknorris]

Aaaaand it's the capital of Finland. Why am I not surprised.

[Lagslayer]

Seems like a great idea, if you can get people to spend that much time underground. I'm not sure they would take very well to it.

[janglur]

Seems like a great idea, if you can get people to spend that much time underground. I'm not sure they would take very well to it.

I can say it's identical to living above ground in New York City.  But with less pidgeons.

[NW_Kohaku]

I don't know, I've always kind of wanted to live in an underground house.  The weather doesn't bother you down there, the geology is neat, the sun doesn't annoy you or get in your eyes while you're trying to sleep in, or annoy you when it's afternoon, or annoy you by just being a great big damn blinding ball of fire.  Hateful Sun. 

Where was I?

Oh, right, I think living underground would be pretty cool.

[janglur]

My concern is a tsunami, flood, or hurricane.

They ARE right beside an ocean.  What happens when the ocean moves in next door to you?  Head for high gro... oh... right.

[NW_Kohaku]

I don't think Scandenavia gets hit by too many hurricanes.

That said, they do have some pretty serious flood control systems in places like London and Denmark.  I don't know about Helsinki in particular, though.

I do know, however, that New York essentially just has a giant system of pumps that keeps the whole city's substructure from flooding.

[janglur]

I don't think Scandenavia gets hit by too many hurricanes.

That said, they do have some pretty serious flood control systems in places like London and Denmark.  I don't know about Helsinki in particular, though.

I do know, however, that New York essentially just has a giant system of pumps that keeps the whole city's substructure from flooding.

ATTEMPTS to.

There are reasons people get injured by flooding manholes firing the cover out, or people falling into ones that have overflowed and washed the cover away.

[Cruxador]

Seems like a great idea, if you can get people to spend that much time underground. I'm not sure they would take very well to it.

It's a choice between being below ground, or being above ground in Finland.

[em312s0n]

i bet cave-ins wouldnt be as much hilarious...

[Cotes]

I don't think Scandenavia gets hit by too many hurricanes.

Or tsunamis for that matter. There has been some minor flooding from sea in Helsinki couple times in the last few years, but the good news is that it won't get much worse with global warming - the sea level might be rising everywhere, but in Finland, the ground does too.

[Urist_McGamer]

I hope the Finns don't dig too deep. Otherwise, once they reach the circus Helsinki would sinki into hell. How big is Finland's army btw?

[Gatleos]

http://ca.gizmodo.com/5769445/helsinkis-underground-shadow-city

Oh my God that guy is obnoxious.

I need to get a map of that underground utility system and base my fort's machine floor off of it.

[j0nas]

How big is Finland's army btw?

It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4