Talk:Rapture

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Adthrawn - I've gone ahead and started up the Rapture article. I'm planning on putting the concept art as the concepts for Rapture. What do you think?

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Coordinates for Rapture taken from flashback scene --Klivian 18:26, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

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One thing, the article cites the riots as starting on 31/12/1959, but wikipedia cites it as 31/12/1958. Which is right?

"happy new year 1959"? so 31/12/1958, a day before?

[edit] Lighthouse

• One thing I find odd about Bioshock is that if Andrew Ryan was so concerned about Rapture being discovered by the surface world, then why did he build a huge lighthouse jutting out of the ocean? Anybody else find that a noticeable flaw in the storyline?

Who Is Atlas? Code Yellow 16:33, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Yeh I know I mean it is so obvious that something is going on there, great City though. Locklear 86 20:42, 19 May, 2009

"Oh yeah let's build a giant light house between Iceland and Greenland no one will find it" Andrew Ryan's dumb ass-76.21.106.232 08:43, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Personally, when I see a lighthouse I think "oh look, a lighthouse". I don't think "Oh look, a lighthouse. That must double as an elevator to a hidden under water city." Maybe that's just me though lol.--92.9.39.137 19:03, September 19, 2009 (UTC)

I would like to point out that a lighthouse can only be seen from a mile or two away, and this lighthouse is in the center of a stretch of ocean that measures over 100,000 miles ₂ (according to the coordinates of the Frozen Triangle.) Finding a single lighthouse in that vast expanse is not only improbable, it is a statistical impossibility unless you know its exact coordinates. The probability that someone will fly over in an airplane and happen to pass the exact point where the lighthouse is stationed...just doesn't exist.

In Ryan's words:

"A man builds a city at the bottom of the sea. That's a marvel. Another man happens to be on a plane that crash lands on the same city in the middle of the ocean. Why, that sounds more like ... a miracle."

―Andrew Ryan^[src]

--Gardimuer 00:13, November 2, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Rapture Completed

Is there a source for the 'It was officially completed on November 5, 1946' statement? That's the date on the little models you see of Rapture in the game, but those only show a handful of towers. My impression was that the core of the city was completed by that date, and it began accepting inhabitants, but that construction of the bulk of the city took several more years.

I see what you mean. If you look at the There's Something in the Sea Chronological Timeline you see that Ryan didn't completely disappear from the surface till sometime around early 1952 (when Lutwidge sent him a complaint about the planned shipments of steel being left to rust). Ryan must have been receiving steel until then, making the completion date more like...late 1951.--Gardimuer 00:13, November 2, 2009 (UTC)