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I see everyone talking about bio-tech, finance, oil, infrastructure.etc. But two critical things people are leaving out are manufacturing and food production. Which areas would excel here? Boston? NYC? LA? Thinking along these lines some metros like Boise, Omaha, Wichita, etc. may become more important for their food production.
I see everyone talking about bio-tech, finance, oil, infrastructure.etc. But two critical things people are leaving out are manufacturing and food production. Which areas would excel here? Boston? NYC? LA? Thinking along these lines some metros like Boise, Omaha, Wichita, etc. may become more important for their food production.
Chicago is huge in that area if I'm not mistaken.
Good thinking though. That's an area nobody has focused on yet.
I see everyone talking about bio-tech, finance, oil, infrastructure.etc. But two critical things people are leaving out are manufacturing and food production. Which areas would excel here? Boston? NYC? LA? Thinking along these lines some metros like Boise, Omaha, Wichita, etc. may become more important for their food production.
The Minneapolis - St. Paul area is at the top when it comes to food production as it's home to giants like Cargill (largest private company in the U.S.), General Mills, CHS Inc., Land O' Lakes, Nash Finch Company, The Mosaic Company, Malt-O-Meal Company, etc...
Good thinking though. That's an area nobody has focused on yet.
I was thinking about that after I posted. I think that's how Chicago came into prominence was due to its wheat trading. But the top 10 metros that are saved must address high GDP production industries such as biomed, high tech, finance, as well as basic necessities such as food production, textiles, and basic manufacturing. That's why I'm thinking a metro in the Great Plains may be necessary. Also, it may be easier to save metros in relatively close proximity to each other. Such as the BosWash and ChiPitts corridor.
I see everyone talking about bio-tech, finance, oil, infrastructure.etc. But two critical things people are leaving out are manufacturing and food production. Which areas would excel here? Boston? NYC? LA? Thinking along these lines some metros like Boise, Omaha, Wichita, etc. may become more important for their food production.
Because manufacturing and Food Production is big in many states. If something happened to Boise or Wichita; we wouldn't all starve to death.
The only cities worth saving if it were a nuclear armageddon are cities far away from other metros. Even if you saved Chicago or any other city thats within a 200 mile radius of another urban metro area they would be infected with nuclear fall out. As for food production Outdoor food production would cease to exist for over 30 years. And if they were goimg to save only ten cities in the USA the nuclear blast from the rest of the cities would throw us into a nuclear winter for several years. And when the when the skys finally did clear over 90% of all living stuff would be dead on earth. People also ,because most people live in urban areas. The two main cities I would deem important to keep intact would be Anchorage its half a continent away from other urban areas. And Seattle so people would have a way to get there. And Seattle would be far away from other blast zones not to be as contaminated. People could leave on ships from seattle destined to Alaska. All other pubic infastructure will most likely not be working . Airports,rail service and roads will be inpassible in urban metro areas. I woul think the other major city that would be a gate way and far away from other blast zones would be Denver but that would be my third choice. Because even tthough its far from other blast zones it would still eventually be affected by the nuclear winter and the fall out but make a good escape city for the midwest and east if any of those places still existed.
I interpreted this thread as asking what metros would be most important in helping the country move forward after a wartime scenario, not during a wartime scenario. In that scenario you could still make a case for Boston since it is home to Raytheon, one of the largest defense contractors in the world. Would we even need Wall St in that scenario? Outside of selling war bonds, what's the point of trading securities when you're getting carpet bombed?
"Lets give a scenario: if we were to be randomly nuked, what are the 10 Metro areas the gov would be on the list to be saved? "
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JH may be receive the most funding of any single institution, but the Boston area receives twice the funding of the entire state of Maryland.
In 2008:
Boston/Cambridge: $1,930,535,103
Maryland: $972,375,730
Longwood Medical Center in Boston roughly equals the entire state of Maryland with over $949 million in funding.
And where do you think that money is coming from? A lot of research is already done already at NIH, FDA, Naval Medical Center, Walter Reed Annex etc. NIH is far more along finding a cure for AIDs than most of the private industry.
Should they fund themselves and place that on a list?
Not to forget Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Maryland Medical System and University of Maryland, Baltimore.
The decisions of the FDA can drop a Biotechs stock at least 30%. They can make or break any company. FDA watches over our food supply.
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Those government agencies are extremely important...but I don't see how that takes away from the importance of the other medical research centers in the country. You're putting a lot of importance on the institutions who are regulating research rather than those who are actually conducting it.
Nope, again "A lot of research is already done already at NIH, FDA, Naval Medical Center, Walter Reed Annex etc. NIH is far more along finding a cure for AIDs(Thanks to a Black man) than most of the private industry."
I am just saying its likely that they would move all that research closer D.C. in order to protect it. Or perhaps some remote area. Either or.
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I'm not sure if this is a pitch against SF/Boston or just for Maryland. I totally agree Maryland is a very important state.
Just playing devils advocate, you can take it as both.
Because manufacturing and Food Production is big in many states. If something happened to Boise or Wichita; we wouldn't all starve to death.
You're right in that food production is big in many states, but what about cities? What cities could produce enough food to feed all 10 cities left? You see what I'm getting at?
Most important/significant/influential U.S. cities/metros:
1. New York
2. Los Angeles
3. Chicago
4. Washington D.C.
5. Atlanta
The rest of the top 10 (in no particular order):
Miami, Dallas, Houston, Boston, and San Francisco
Philadelphia is number 11.
Enough said. Case closed.
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