Floating Cities....Too Cool

It is very cool...I wonder if it can really work?

Who lives in a lily pad on top of the sea?

Sponge Bob Square Pants

No.

it goes -
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooh

who lives in a pineapple under the sea

sponge .bob .square .pants.

absorbent and yellow and porus is he

(doing this from memory is embarassing )


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=O1A_dcMdrwc

What utter rubbish.

50,000!! How many of these things will be required. There's millions of empty acres in the US, Russia, China etc etc.

And if they can float anywhere won't they all end up arguing about where to float to. Will they rock gently in the typhoons and hurricanes? Cripes- no snooker. How on earth will they get a mis-spent youth?

Suppose all the 50,000 lucky refugees go to the same end. To see a rock concert say.

Which state authority will they recognise?

One advantage though is that waste disposal systems would be easy. Imagine the Waldorf dropping it straight into the ocean and floating gently along leaving a ****-slick along the surface to be eaten by shrimps which can then be farmed and served up as delicacies in the restaurants.

That's a plus.

That's gross Spendi...though you bring up some very good points...that last one - yuck.

Oh me too Shewolf...know it by heart.

They say here that it is impossible to underestimate the stupidity of Daily Mail readers and this story is a good example.

What about exogamy- the prime mover of biological improvement it is said. 50,000 will be pretty inbred after 3 generations I imagine.

What would they do all day? What currency would they use? If they are for refugees there will 10,000 under 12 and 15 to 20 thousand economically useless. And all skint and not very well educated as is the way with refugees.

Will there be prisons and courts and how many people will be required for that sort of thing. Teachers, doctors, lawyers and whatnot. They might outnumber the refugees.

It's fatuous. Building out to sea and filling the open spaces is much the best way of dealing with the problem and that's assuming there is a problem.

What the Daily Mail wants is for its readers to keep buying the products it advertises and this sort of story allows them to indulge the notion that it's okay for them to do so because it'll all be taken care of by technology and they have no need to feel any pangs of guilt.

If the scheme was placed upon the Minister's desk he spray bits of dunked McVitie's Digestive over the papers of state and look at the calender to see if it was April 1st.

Do refugees from flooding get precedence over refugees from drought and famine or wars.

I think I would prefer The World over the lily pad...

And certainly over the way Kevin Costner lived in Water World.

i would prefer any land, even if it's in Siberia, I think.

Siberia is a wonderful place. It's easy there to persuade a wife to bottle fruit and salt some beaver for a few weeks and to snuggle down for the rest of the time with the shutters up.

which is why i'm not anybody's wife. salt your own darned beaver

I gave it up actually.

I discovered Marks and Spencers.

And if we could just get enough global warming, Siberia might become quite a pleasant place to live. No need for moving to the sea.

They are doing something similar in Dubai:

Dubai's Floating Ambition

Sounds like he wants to be the next Buckminster Fuller. Buckminister Fuller's Cloud 9 concept was for floating geodesic domes in air.

Permafrost is melting as we speak.


Once the bogs dry up, it will likely be very pleasant.

Kinda resonates with James Blish's Cities In Flight series

I read that the thawing of the permafrost will lead to a massive amount of carbon dioxide being released and a most objectionable smell similar to that when a freezer breaks down unattended.



Isn't Mr van de Camp an original thinker?