Realisticaly, how it would be to live surrounced by waterffals?
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Realisticaly, how it would be to live surrounced by waterffals?
Realisticaly, how it would be to live surrounced by waterffals?
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Probably kind of loud, kind of humid, and pretty cool, but in general pretty nice.
This, it will depend if you like noise 24/7 and humidity.
Sorta but more humid than loud.
>Source: Do SAR stuff innawoods.
Sound can act weird with water, so while you might pick up on an everpresent thrum, it's realistic you might be able to dull down the sounds of water flowing by simply putting a row of buildings between you and the flowing water.
What you WILL notice, are two things.
>1. Sound doesn't travel.
Just because the water isn't deafening, doesn't mean it's not there, and the signal interference you'll get from it, plus the ways sound can bounce in an urban environment, will mean sounds don't travel. The River will eat your words (which is also a cool fantasy idea), and you might be shouting at someone ten or twenty meters away, facing you, and he won't hear you.
Expect rogues.
>2. EVERYTHING is damp.
A city like
or
would be fricking drenched in water, down to every nook and cranny, with sheets of mist being blown across it, fractions of percentages of flow being blown by the wind of its own passage. EVERYTHING would get wet and corrode. Copper would go green, iron would go red-brown, and any untreated wood would warp and rot. Houses would probably need to be made of stone, and would likely look polished and organic.
All in all, it's an extremely cool concept, both for a wonderous city, and an inhospitable one.
I ask because "town surrounded by waterfalls" is like, one of the most common pieces of fantasy art you will find.
I'm genuinily curious on knowing if doing that is feasible or if its just aestethics. I already visited waterfalls before and they could be very loud, I imagine that living on top of one could be unbereable.
Any historic precendet for anything like this?
>Any historic precendet for anything like this?
There's human habitation right up to Niagara Falls. It's loud but not intolerable. It depends on whether your hypothetical city is built in a gigantic echo chamber and the volume of water being moved.
It's fricking suck.
One thing people don't understand about waterfalls is that they're fricking loud. Water rushing and falling is loud.
It's also one of those things where it's a huge hazard. Drop something into the water? It's gone. Fall into the water? You're dead. And you're probably thinking "just don't fall in" but guess what - it's wet everywhere, all the time, because water is splashing around constantly. Your only real benefit is that you've got flowing water but you could also get that by building on a river rather than on the waterfall.
Oppressively loud, cold, and wet. It would be pretty much uninhabitable for humans. If you don't believe me, try getting close to a large waterfall in real life.
I did multiple times, you have autism and you are triggered by loud noise.
Decent choice to settle in an extremely hot and arid region. Terrible idea anywhere else.
Dumb ESL
Maintenance would be extremely difficult
I'm pretty sure these are AI-generated prompts. No living human would be this moronic.
Lower your standards
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spokane,_Washington
this is just your average /tg/ thread from the past 5 years.
>"what if" threads
>commerbait threads
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this board is a fricking mess with literallly zero moderation
God forbid threads other than discord circle jerk general #692 get made.
>don't like shit? you must like piss!
no. purge all shit threads.
>I'm pretty sure these are AI-generated prompts.
Remember when anons would insist that every thread they didn't like was created by tumblr?
Bold of you to assume that guy has been here for more than a month
It would be rather loud, and erosion would be a possible danger.
Humidity would be pretty high, but there are jungle civilizations, just remember when chossing the materials for buiilding.
The waterfall would become pretty disgusting with time as fecal waters would be thrown from high altitudes.
Noise would be a problem but i think that if you design the city to be mostly closed spaces insulated from the high humidity that would ruin stored foods, you should be good.
But the noise would make the city a pretty dangerous place by night, as crime wouldn't need to be particularly silent.
No city can grow too much without a reliable source of food and resources. There is no place for growing crops, or raising animals, so the town can’t sustain itself unless they gather from the surrounding wilderness, which cannot sustain a large population, or they start trading. An isolated waterfall town cannot support large volume of trade, unless in your setting flying transportation is common.
Alternatively the town was built in the waterfall for a strategic reason, so ir will be sustained by the outside power that ordered its construction in the first place. There is a space for creativity here. Maybe it’s a sacred place where pilgrims gather, or maybe the water protects it from monsters, or maybe the waterfall hides a secret.
Remember that people won’t build towns in hard places unless they have a good reason to do so.
What a depressingly bland and unimaginative monocolor your life must be.
The entire city would be in a constant state of being rebuilt in a neverending cycle. Living in a high humidity area is one thing, but actually living surrounded by waterfalls means the entire place is getting constantly wet. That means that even specifically treated building materials are going to rot, crumble, and rust far quicker. And that's on top of the water pressure itself from a tall high-volume waterfall eroding the surrounding ground it lands on.
man that shit be loud af homie fr
i like this fantasy trope.
here the last one i can find without going deep into my fantasy folder
A lot of waterfall cities in this thread are cool but this one is very stupid. The waterflow is cutting the shit out of that rocky outcrop. Someday that whole city is going to fall in to the water.
I'll bet it comes with enormous maintenance issues of some kind
WHAT?
Frickin noisy and damp all the time
RIVERSIDE MUTHAFRICKA
OH GODS! There's ANOTHER outbreak of mold in the library. We can't keep losing books like this. Forget the ancient tomes, those all rotted years ago. We're losing records of basic stuff here. Who was born, how much grain shipments we've gotten, which provinces have paid their taxes.
Everyone is bloody sick all the damn time from all the black mold everywhere. And the noise. Doctors are prescribing people trips upstream just to experience silence for once in their life. It's driven a few mad. But none of our elders can hear for SHIT!
Fricking library nerds
Why would you need to record who was born
Obviously everyone was, idiots
I'll be careful when I say this: in a magical setting names can hold power and maybe some gods and demons will steal your soul if the ownership isnt written down on holy paper and stone.
Hah, that was a good one.
i went on vacation to the Iguazu falls and they are pretty cool but i think it would be pretty dumb to build a city there. at least in the lower part like these images
more pics to ilustrate what i mean
WHAT?
As an Idahoan, I have lived in several cities named after their waterfalls.
Naturally people don't live right next to them, though there are plenty of parks and such nearby.
They're really not as load as some people think they are, a waterfall is loudest around the bottom where it splashes. Up top it sounds like a river.
High humidity and precipitation to the extent paper keeping and wood would be impossible.
Great if you're in a desert. Pleasant moisture and easy irrigation downstream.
Otherwise only if you have enough tech to harvest it for power, and then you'll be damming it up anyway.