[Noisebridge-discuss] NoiseBoat

Rameen emprameen at gmail.com
Fri Dec 3 04:59:39 UTC 2010


Ahoy Seabridge?

I would try for a seafaring lifestyle! HMS Invincible seems fun

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Naomi Most <pnaomi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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