I have a project that I've been noodling around for many years, never really making much progress (life is eventful, eh?) What I really need is your attention.

I have a project that I've been noodling around for many years, never really making much progress (life is eventful, eh?) What I really need is your attention. I tend to lose motivation if I'm working in a vacuum. Please let me know you find this interesting or even inspiring. I want to make large flying buildings. - Large: several kilometers or even larger. - Flying: they spend most or all of the time in the air. - Buildings: containing people and infrastructure. How do we make them? There are two areas to address: - The methods of manufacturing them. - The path from here & now to full production and deployment. The last time this "Who wants to Collaborate?" thread went by (last month) a couple of people were interested, so I posted an old site talking about it to https://phoenixbureau.github.io/MagnusMotive/ https://phoenixbureau.github.io/MagnusMotive/ It still needs some clean up and updating. I also set up an IRC channel on libra.chat and have been hanging out there: irc://irc.libera.chat/#MagnusMotive The basic idea is to make huge geodesic cellular kites with Magnus effect propulsion and lift. https://phoenixbureau.github.io/MagnusMotive/Cellular-Fractal-Structures.html https://phoenixbureau.github.io/MagnusMotive/Cellular-Fracta... Two other aspects of the project would be good to mention here: First, the primary motivation is to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (and other ocean gyres) by collecting and reprocessing the plastic etc. that's floating out there. Second, I want to make and use extremely simple computers systems to control these robots (the cellular geodesic flying machines are made out of swarms of geodesic flying drones.) I know this probably sounds crazy, but I've been over it and over it and I don't see anything insurmountable or even challenging. It's all off-the-shelf technology, and as time goes on hardware and software improvements make it easier all the time. One biggie is that I thought I would have to recruit an army of volunteers to drive the trash collector robots but now the recent advances in machine learning (et. al.) make that task (identifying trash) much much easier to scale up, eh? Anyhow, to sum up: Large flying buildings made from cellular swarm robots that assemble themselves into vast geodesic networks, collecting and recycling oceanic (and other) trash, using simple "provably correct" computer systems. More details and some graphics at the website: https://phoenixbureau.github.io/MagnusMotive/ https://phoenixbureau.github.io/MagnusMotive/ or come on by the IRC channel (libera.chat #MagnusMotive) and say hi!