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Going all in on the Culture ship names. I'd be happy if he just made 100(ish) more just to name them after every ship that Iain M. Banks named. They don't nee
by olympus 9y ago
Going all in on the Culture ship names. I'd be happy if he just made 100(ish) more just to name them after every ship that Iain M. Banks named. They don't need to catch rockets, they can just link up and make a floating utopia.
- stcredzero 9y agoThey don't need to catch rockets, they can just link up and make a floating utopia. Well for that, you'd want to change the hull type from a barge to a spar buoy. Given that, there's no reason why they couldn't do both. http://www.technip.com/sites/default/files/technip/illustrations/page/spar_comparison_graphic_11-15-12_0.jpg http://www.technip.com/sites/default/files/technip/illustrat... (Permanent structures in the ocean need to be spar buoys, or some other architecture that are largely immune to Rogue Waves.)
- 089723645897236 9y agoGot any more cool info on permanent ocean structures. Or large ocean structure engineering in general?
- walrus01 9y agoMistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath