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Thus proving that you can currently get attention for any goddamn stupid idea if you find a way to link it to "climate change". A three-foot sea level rise (be
by hugh 18y ago
Thus proving that you can currently get attention for any goddamn stupid idea if you find a way to link it to "climate change".
A three-foot sea level rise (being the worst case scenario for this century) would be annoying for a few people in very low-lying areas, but they'd move to slightly higher ground, of which the world has a lot, and not to floating cities.
- stcredzero 18y agoAlso, since the hull is flat, rogue waves will create huge stresses on these things, probably destroying them. Living on a floating island on the ocean is eventual suicide. It's not a matter of if it will be destroyed by waves, but when. There is a way to build habitations on the water and decouple them from wave energy -- use Spar Buoys. http://seasteading.org/ http://seasteading.org/
- cdr 18y agoThe fact that seasteading is more realistic really says something.
- thwarted 18y agoIt's too bad that pie-in-the-sky solutions or the output of someone's final project in architecture class gets more mindshare and column inches than actual, workable, pragmatic solutions. Pragmatic solutions are boring. They work.