Another week, another lesson

Did college again.
It was raining this morning and I got carpuddled. Soaked right through my dress and my thermals. I had spare socks but by the time I got to college it was an hour later, and I can't change out of my trousers on the bus. So I just put up with it until it.
Then at lunch time I spilled my fruit pots and got juice on my dress too.
Splashy day.

Lessons were full of... well, on the whole, things we'd thought before, some working in groups, and being assigned something that almost everyone else buggered off for. when the teacher is out of the room seems like nobody works on the assigned work. I was one of five people still in the room at the end, and two of them had been working on their application for being a teacher.
Dear other students: Liz comes back to check. Liz always comes back to check. I know none of you know this due to not being there, but seriously, every time, right at the end of the lesson, she sees you. Well, absence of you.
Also, it is hard to work in groups on your own. So once a critical mass of people has left it gets a bit futile being the last one there.
...to be honest I was attempting to recharge my MP3 player and just twiddling around highlighting stuff, but, I was still there.

Now I am home again.
I'm still bored of college.
I am counting how long before the end, instead of just studying.

Maybe the stuff on Blackboard is more interesting...

Atlantis is big

I started trying to design Atlantis in GURPS Spaceships. There's too much vague and too much superscience to do anything properly. I handwaved a lot of numbers and came up with a Size Modifier +18 ship with two sections of Habitat each containing 600,000 cabins. If you call the accommodation in Atlantis a Luxury Cabin then there's room for 300,000 people to live in one Habitat section, and the other can be all offices, labs, briefing rooms (1 cabin holds 10 people) and establishments (2 cabins holds 20 people), like restaurants and bars and shops and things. Also sick bay beds (1 cabin to 1 sick bay bed, 100+ beds make a hospital). And mini factories. And 1 cabin = 1 teleport projector, which is apparently what they use instead of lifts. Though I guess lifts would also need a cabin of space, on every floor in a straight line. I didn't see a rule for that. But however many transporters they need for the whole city, all of them take a cabin out of the Habitat.
Also my Atlantis had two Open Space sections, one all Farms producing sufficient food for the whole city, the other to be all kinds of anything, like auditoriums and zoos and pools and stuff. Each Open Space area holds 100 people and there's 5,000 areas on an SM+18 ship. Which is plenty more than enough to have all the people hang out in an Open Space at once. But it was that or call it all cargo. There's already a lot of room for cargo.

Exploring 300,000 bedrooms would take a bit of a while. Especially if you don't know how many of them are going to turn out to be labs.

But I stopped designing it because it's kind of no fun when its that big. You never could decide what's in all the rooms. It's more fun designing a village, because you can decide which building is the pub and which the blacksmith and all like that.

Of course Atlantis could be very much smaller or very much bigger than this. I only looked on wiki pages and some size comparison graphics, and nothing particularly precise appeared on them.

If you were building a flying city, how big would it be?