Communities

Writing
Writing
Codidact Meta
Codidact Meta
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors
Photography & Video
Photography & Video
Scientific Speculation
Scientific Speculation
Cooking
Cooking
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Judaism
Judaism
Languages & Linguistics
Languages & Linguistics
Software Development
Software Development
Mathematics
Mathematics
Christianity
Christianity
Code Golf
Code Golf
Music
Music
Physics
Physics
Linux Systems
Linux Systems
Power Users
Power Users
Tabletop RPGs
Tabletop RPGs
Community Proposals
Community Proposals
tag:snake search within a tag
answers:0 unanswered questions
user:xxxx search by author id
score:0.5 posts with 0.5+ score
"snake oil" exact phrase
votes:4 posts with 4+ votes
created:<1w created < 1 week ago
post_type:xxxx type of post
Search help
Notifications
Mark all as read See all your notifications »
Q&A

Can a Society of Barbie Dolls Make a Network of Aerial Cable Cars?

+0
−0

When I was a kid, I conceptualized a post-apocalyptic story entirely starring Barbie dolls. One idea I had about how they would live and get around involved transmission towers, or power towers. Imagine something like this. Note: By the time they started living there, the power lines had long since stopped working.

These dolls would be as smart as humans, but can only lift about 5-10 pounds. They're functionally immortal, since only way to kill one is to completely destroy it by setting it ablaze. They eat, drink and sleep to maintain their energy levels and keep their strength up. Not doing it won't kill them, but will make them very tired and weak.

The idea was that somehow they were able to live in different parts of this tower (with branch platforms or nets and hammocks) and get to different floors with stairs or an elevator up the side or down the middle of the tower.

However, the main benefit to living in this power tower that I thought of was to create a system of Gondola lifts or Cable cars to travel from one tower to another with the power tower's wires. Looking back I don't see how I thought that was supposed to work. But that's where you come in!

How could a society of Barbie dolls build and maintain a system of Aerial tramways connecting a bunch of power towers?

History
Why does this post require moderator attention?
You might want to add some details to your flag.
Why should this post be closed?

This post was sourced from https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/94891. It is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

0 comment threads

0 answers

Sign up to answer this question »