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Does the Great Pacific Garbage Patch count?

• carapace 4y ago
  Ha! I'm planning to collect the GPGP and turn it into a large artificial floating structure. Floating in the air. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Nine_(sphere) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Nine_(sphere) (It's mostly a stunt to show humanity that we can do great things.)
  • csh0 4y ago
    A great Stack Exchange answer on the feasibility of such a structure. https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/36667/can-cloud-nine-be-built https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/36667/can-...
    • carapace 4y ago
      I just skimmed it. Folks are having fun. :) The question isn't what material to use, it's how big do you have to be (with a given material) to float? You can always just make your sphere bigger, eh? (That's kinda the point. It would actually be really really inconvenient to live in a Cloud Nine, no?) Anyway, I'm also going to use kites. (E.g. Imagine the Cloud Nine with a skirt like the Rings of Saturn, rotating, with the individual "cells" of the kite membrane modulated to afford directional control... Or Magnus Effect "cilia" that manipulate the envelope of air around the sphere...)
• avaldez_ 4y ago
  The UK is in the Atlantic ocean not in the Pacific.