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Are there are any structures for large numbers of people to live on the ocean that are actually.... practical? Not an engineer, but it seems like quite a challe
by hash872 8y ago
Are there are any structures for large numbers of people to live on the ocean that are actually.... practical? Not an engineer, but it seems like quite a challenge. I'm sure it's possible to come up with something that's stable most of the time, but edge cases like hurricanes/typhoons would seem to be tough to plan for?
I'd imagine that having a few wealthy backers who buy a used cruise ship would be more practical than trying to build a quasi-permanent structure out on the exposed ocean. The ship could just continuously idle in one place, preferably a pirate/bandit free sort of area near the US.
Of course, ships require an absolutely staggering amount of maintenance, which would probably require some form of collective taxation among the residents to pay for it.... you'd have to have marine engineers on payroll, or fly them out at enormous expense etc. But that just gets to how silly these libertarian ideas are in practice
- michaelt 8y agoAre there are any structures for large numbers of people to live on the ocean that are actually.... practical? Would an oil rig count? Some of them have 150 berths - although presumably if you're rich enough to think this is a good idea, you'd want more than a bunk in a shared room.
- dsfyu404ed 8y ago>Are there are any structures for large numbers of people to live on the ocean that are actually.... practical? Oil drilling platforms have refined the concept pretty well. 1. Replace the drilling stuff with a casino to make money. 2. Park it somewhere nobody cares about. 3. "Import" your groceries. 4. ????? 5. Live peaceably in your utopia.
- tomatotomato37 8y agoI would replace the casino with a PMC headquarters, if only because the resource cost to annex you when you inevitably piss of some country is dramatically higher
- qnsi 8y agothere is VC backed Blue Frontiers, funded by wealthy donors. But I don't follow how they are doing https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-30/floating-island-project-pushes-on-without-peter-thiel-s-support https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-30/floating-...
- CydeWeys 8y agoThe real problem ends up being food. Solar panels last for decades, and with them you can desalinate your drinking water and power your lights and such. But how do you get enough food to eat? Even just feeding one person requires a surprisingly large greenhouse, and space (and soil) aren't exactly a luxury you have at sea.