Nightmares++

[arpad]

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Inverted ecology. Creation of a self-sustained clean areas in a hopelessly broken outside world.

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[gholam.livejournal.com]

There was at least one episode of Stargate about precisely that, don't remember if it was SG-1 or Atlantis though.

[a7sharp9.livejournal.com]

That's the way of life for any programmer in a complex application environment - tend to your own volcanoes and try not to let baobabs from adjoining layers invade your turf.

Bad nightmare

[applez.livejournal.com]

Interesting, but that violates the first principle of ecology no matter its organization - nothing is completely isolated from the rest, and can't be self-sustaining without it.

Britain's New Towns, America's suburbs, and Soviet planned cities all reflect this strategy, and demonstrate how it just doesn't work quite that way.