Need some help from the experts. Thinking about creating a floating city.

Kevin Costner dropped an absolute bundle when he created "Waterworld", this has eerie similarities !

 

Good idea,
& take a drilling rig, oil can fund expansion,
& tobacco plants, so you can trade with the smokers,
& learn fishing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZQF83kf-a4&list=PL38CC07A7B87124D0&index=10

I think you need somewhere nice & calm & reconcile that everywhere good is already occupied..... & be ready to move on when the welcome is over.
Maybe a big yacht is a good start, something like this can be used to transport goods & settlers http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/norm...oner-excellent-home-away-from-home/1067080823

All the best
Jeff

 

Is it April fools day already. Well done. You had me for a minute.

 

Nope, its not a joke. We intend on at least trying this idea before giving up.

 

You'll need more than a plastic plant,
do you intend farming/green house for vegies?.

Honestly I believe a large ferro cement yacht the ideal start, lots going for it, cheap, lowish maintenance, probably enough accomodation to start, sails so fuel bills are not so much, add on small barges for green house, livestock, fish farming.....

or maybe a large wharram style catamaran.....

or a farm at Goonengary......

needs to be somewhere warm...
what's the democratic structure?

Jeff.

 

With the hot-cross buns in the supermarkets already, it is hard to tell !

 

Well its going to be a very interesting story to follow. Good luck. I think you would do better to buy something already made and fit it out how you want.

 

Sounds like you know some more, got the goss already on an accounting?


J.

 

This floating utopia idea does beg the famous John McEnroe response, imo.

 

A much more chillaxed vibe required I feel

 

Noticed that in woolys yesterday. They seem to getting ready for easter earlier each year. Soon santa will be handing out easter eggs.

 

It never seems to amaze me of the ridiculousness of some. An independent nation, really? Of course, your citizens will just have to trust your barrels will not drown them right. These same citizens, being like minded libertarians certainly wouldn't want their government to tax them for the upkeep of these barrels, so they probably need to be relatively inert. Right? Clearly, not a lot of rational thought has been placed into this idea yet, has it?

Maybe when you graduate high school, you can get out in the world and play with real life events, you know the ones that'll insist your sewage doesn't run up onto their beaches, while you float around a few hundred miles off their pristine, yet ungodly democratic shore.

How much money would it take? Well, if typical life afloat is a guide, calculate how much to build a land based city, the size you want and multiply by 10. If a $150K per barge is a bit steep, you're just going to die when you hear about desalination and water purification costs are going to be, not to mention the expertise you'll have to salaries to keep it running. Have you even looked at the operating budgets of a small town? You could always increase revenues, by charging more for increased "land" mass, when their barrels rust . . .

 

Ideally, the floating nation would be located in one of those oceanic current eddies where all the plastic concentrates, collected up, it could create the new nation of Polymeresia.

 

It is a lot more practical than the train submarine, though, you must admit. That is the gold standard in lunatic marine hallucinations.

 

You do have a point, though the train submarine, with a kite sail assist, now we could be cooking with gas.