The Really Creepy People Behind Billionaire Sea Castles

[JackRiddler]

Gasp!

Site admins caught in act of thread proliferation.

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[Jeff]

Gasp!

Site admins caught in act of thread proliferation.

http://rigorousintuition.ca/board2/view ... =8&t=30734

It's a fair cop.



'The Ark': Floating Hotel Designed By Remistudio To Address Climate Change Effects Like Rising Sea Levels And Massive Floods

Speaking to the world's rising sea levels, Russia-based architectural firm Remistudio proposes this arch-shaped floating hotel as a refuge from even extreme floods. Called (quite appropriately) the Ark, the futuristic structure has the ability to exist autonomously on the surface of the water. Designed to be a bioclimatic building, the Ark incorporates several innovative green strategies and elements to ensure that its residents can survive aboard for months at a time.

Addressing growing concern over climate change and the rising level of the world’s oceans, Russian architectural firm Remistudio has designed a massive hotel concept that can endure extreme floods. The arch-shaped building, dubbed the Ark, has a structure that enables it to float and exist autonomously on the surface of the water. The Ark was also designed to be a bioclimatic house with independent life-support systems, including elements ensuring a closed-functioning cycle.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/3 ... ml#s217193

[Metric Pringle]

[JackRiddler]

Waterworld - design for quarry reclamation project in China.



First, scorch earth, then build a resort hotel.



Cue the five notes from "Close Encounters."

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[Metric Pringle]

ugh.

And here's our dear Patri...

Patri Friedman –" Lets forget about left and right, and instead, think about governments as companies, and citizens as customers ......... the leading firm had 2009 revenues of 2.5 Trillion dollars, strangely its also an industry legendary for poor performance. That firm lost 1.4 Trillion dollars, and thats a top company, the worst companies, kill many of their own customers!”

Audience - “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA”



Jackriddler, I was fascinated by the spoiler you gave, and had a little dig as I'd love to read it. Couldn't find it, but it must be Silverberg as I found this -



little nod to his previous book i guess. If you do find it let me know...

[Metric Pringle]

Found this on the burning man similarity,
Poster on there saw the similarity between the logos -



http://seasteading.org/interact/forums/ ... comparison


And,

"We want rules - that's the whole goal! We just want better ones. Ephemerisle without laws would be like Burning Man without art."

http://www.seasteading.org/stay-in-touc ... ithout-art

(ephemerisle was the seasteading party in SF)

Maybe they will have lots of little areas there where people bring Law Cars instead of Art Cars.

[KudZu LoTek]

Aw crap, I bookmarked a few articles on the Seasteading Institute when it first started making the rounds because it sounded interesting, but now... yeech, no thanks! Like barracuda said, it's just Lord of the Flies waiting to happen.


I'm still enamored of some of the more low brow options:

Man (Re)Builds Mexican Island Paradise on 250,000 Recycled Floating Bottles

If you can’t afford to buy your own tropical island paradise, why not build your own? That is exactly what Richie Sowa did back in 1998, from over a quarter-million plastic bottles. His Spiral Island, destroyed years later by a hurricane, sported a two-story house, solar oven, self-composting toilet and multiple beaches. Better yet, he has started building another one! His ultimate goal? To build the island bigger and bigger and finally float out to sea, traveling the world from the comfort of his own private paradise.

Hobos Float

"The Waterpod" is basically a big garbage barge made of garbage upon which hippies live, floating in the New York harbor. It is allegedly an art project but we know what it is really: an aquatic hobo camp. Which would you rather, a 3,000 square foot rent-free trash raft or a McCarren park bench?

The Waterpod: a Floating Eco-Habitat

While it may not seem like it at first, the Waterpod is actually a pretty radical idea. Why? Bear with me a moment. Though cited as the primary cause of most of the environmental challenges that we face, population growth gets surprisingly little press. Solutions are few and far between and those that make the headlines trade in unthinkable currency: draconian human rights violations, predictions of Malthusian catastrophe or worse, a kind of perilous, technological optimism. The Waterpod however, turns the debate on its head by suggesting that we have close to seventy percent more livable space than we thought: the ocean!

[Joe Hillshoist]

Anyone read Snow Crash?

[Iamwhomiam]

RIde, Captain, Ride

Seventy-three men sailed up from the San Francisco Bay
Rolled off of their ship, and here's what they had to say
"We're callin' everyone to ride along to another shore
We can laugh our lives away and be free once more"

But no one heard them callin', no one came at all
'Cause they were too busy watchin' those old raindrops fall
As a storm was blowin' out on the peaceful sea
Seventy-three men sailed off to history

Ride, captain ride upon your mystery ship
Be amazed at the friends you have here on your trip
Ride captain ride upon your mystery ship
On your way to a world that others might have missed

(Repeat first two verses)

(Chorus)

Ride, captain ride upon your mystery ship
Be amazed at the friends you have here on your trip

[KudZu LoTek]

Anyone read Snow Crash?

Guilty as charged.

[winsomecowboy2]

Gosh, billion dollar ships, how secure!

the French "Exocet" missile has served more than 30 years, has been proven in combat, and its reliability is well known.

[Nordic]

Gosh, billion dollar ships, how secure!

the French "Exocet" missile has served more than 30 years, has been proven in combat, and its reliability is well known.

I don't think they're too worried. We're not hitting them now, so why would we come after them then?

Does Lloyd Blankfein have a bodyguard? Do any of them? Do they sleep well at night? I think they do.

Hell, Karl Rove was doing book signings in random book stores all across the country with almost zero security. So much for that terrorist threat, huh? Even Karl Rove can just walk around anywhere he wants without worries.

Sheep, nothing but drugged up sheep everywhere.

But then why do they need to float away, far away?

To get away from the stench of the bodies of course.

You know they'll have us killing each other while they drift away in their man made islands? They're already working on that.

[Joe Hillshoist]

Because its actually a lot easier to take the fuckers out if they are on a boat.

[winsomecowboy2]

re Nordic

If I cannot sustain some small grandiose kneejerk rambo-istic violent fantasy to combat my otherwise rational despair then life simply is not worth living.

There is a difference surely between killing Mr Rove in a bookstore and creating some hoity toity titanic.
In my mind there is.
What is the internet for if it's not for impotent bleating and deluded hyperbole?

Is there some rational scale to the impotence I've missed?

RI simply serves me and I'm sure others with a higher grade of hopelessness.
As if just knowing anything somehow empowers you.

The fact you take me seriously reflects to me laughably how seriously you take yourself.
Nothing personal, as you so adroitly point out, neither of us matter do we?

[Joe Hillshoist]

http://ships-for-sale.com/submarine_for_sale.htm

Hmmmmmmm