[Noisebridge-discuss] NoiseBoat

[Naomi Most]

See also seasteading.org ... and if any of you are actually serious about
this, I'll put you in touch with the founders.

--Naomi


On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Joel Jaeggli <joelja at bogus.com> wrote:

> On 12/2/10 6:29 PM, Gian Pablo Villamil wrote:
> > During Prohibition, casino + speakeasy ships would anchor offshore, just
> > inside international waters. Boats would take customers out. If I'm not
> > mistaken, one big pickup point was just below the Cliff House, and the
> > ships were anchored out past the Farallons.
>
> This big thing about ships is the amount of capital it takes to keep
> something operating at scale... sucking down fuel at rate of a few
> pounds per second is fine with 3000 paying customers onboard or a lot of
> cargo, but no so awesome for the casual project.
>
> > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:59 PM, <travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org<travis%2Bml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org>
> > <mailto:travis%2Bml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org<travis%252Bml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org>>>
> wrote:
> >
> >     Hmm, decommissioned aircraft carriers...  suddenly I'm having
> >     Cryptonomicon
> >     flashbacks.  Maybe you could tow it towed out to international
> >     waters? ;-)
>
> it was actually snow crash, and the point was you could leverage the
> North Pacific Subtropical Gyre to make a round trip as opposed to just
> ending up in some giant garbage patch in the mid-pacific.
>
> the operating costs for an aircraft carrier even if your rule out
> propulsion are fairly epic, like you could run a reasonable sized space
> program instead . the US has 6 carrier battle groups which is retarded
> expensive even on the scale of us military expenditures.
>
> ther are various tall ship sail training programs which probably hew a
> little closer to the nb aesthetic, but a sailing vessel is a hole in the
> water into which you pour money which is what keeps your's trully feet
> planted on dry land.
>
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