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Or instead of one plot of land, build a sufficiently large seafaring vessel and host it at sea?
by CiPHPerCoder 10y ago
Or instead of one plot of land, build a sufficiently large seafaring vessel and host it at sea?
- fennecfoxen 10y agoAccording to the Internets, which are never wrong, the largest ship ever was this one: http://maritime-connector.com/worlds-largest-ships/ http://maritime-connector.com/worlds-largest-ships/ How do you think this compares with a typical land-based Olympic venue? What other challenges make this idea absurd and ridiculous?
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoShell's new Prelude FLNG vessel is even bigger [1], if you call that a ship. It's about five football fields in area IIRC. So still absolutely tiny compared to anything you could host the olympics on. Fun story: I was talking to some Shell people a few years back, about the potential troubles with LNG sloshing in process equipment due to waves. I asked them, why not just make the ship big enough that waves don't affect it as much? They looked at me very strangely for a few seconds before explaining just how big it already is. [1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/10496977/Worlds-largest-ship-bigger-than-Empire-State-Building-launches.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/10...
- aurelianito 10y agoMaybe one vessel will not be big enough. But a fleet should be able to support every competition but the marathon and have quarters for all the athletes.
- qrendel 10y agoI'm sure they can get more ad revenue if the contestants are forced to compete above shark-infested waters, too!
- aurelianito 10y agoSwimming competitions can even be in them!
- amelius 10y agoOr something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand They already hosted sports events (see the "sport" section of that wikipedia page).
- wrsh07 10y agoHaha I love this idea