The neighborhood has held up pretty well, at least on that side of the street. Without cars, the former garage space can now house more of those billions of Kelvans. The SF skyline makes the Transamerica building look positively conservative. The view of downtown doesn’t look like it would from Daily City though. Did you use (as an old girlfiend termed it) “artistic license”?
The pyramid is right where it should be when viewed from the south. A long time user on TrekBBS once made a claim that the view of Earth from the orbital platform in TMP showed San Francisco as an island either from war or global warming. I have never been able to confirm that, and what’s seen in the film is ambiguous, but I liked the idea a lot.
Not enough water on earth for it to be from global warming. Sea level in the picture is 400 feet higher at the new “El Puente Real” bridge, and that’s also assuming a lot of fill to recapture land in the downtown lowlands.
It could be war I guess. Something like the Xindi prototype could do that.
Anything can happen in SF, whether that’s Science Fiction or San Francisco.
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
……….
-Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1962
The neighborhood has held up pretty well, at least on that side of the street. Without cars, the former garage space can now house more of those billions of Kelvans. The SF skyline makes the Transamerica building look positively conservative. The view of downtown doesn’t look like it would from Daily City though. Did you use (as an old girlfiend termed it) “artistic license”?
The pyramid is right where it should be when viewed from the south. A long time user on TrekBBS once made a claim that the view of Earth from the orbital platform in TMP showed San Francisco as an island either from war or global warming. I have never been able to confirm that, and what’s seen in the film is ambiguous, but I liked the idea a lot.
Not enough water on earth for it to be from global warming. Sea level in the picture is 400 feet higher at the new “El Puente Real” bridge, and that’s also assuming a lot of fill to recapture land in the downtown lowlands.
It could be war I guess. Something like the Xindi prototype could do that.
Anything can happen in SF, whether that’s Science Fiction or San Francisco.
“…See ya real soon…”
“…Why? Because we like you!…”
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
……….
-Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1962