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Massive Ships 12-Miles Offshore to Provide Floating City for Entrepreneurial Start-Ups;
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| March 16, 2013
| Mike Shedlock
Posted on 03/16/2013 9:40:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Mish appears to be a little late in getting on board, so to speak.
Blueseed on the Stossel Show
The linked Stossel segment was run December 22, 2011.
To: martin_fierro; ShadowAce
for the silicon valley & tech ping lists
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posted on
03/16/2013 11:53:42 PM PDT
by
Kevmo
("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
To: upchuck
“How about floating off the coast of Mexico?”
Good idea. That might just work.
To: Kaslin
I can’t wait to see what 35 foot seas do their grande redneck yacht club.
To: The Antiyuppie
Im sure it would cost a lot less than the entrenched bureaucracy and overhead of the US medical-industrial complex... Both of us are guessing; since there has been NO data indicating what the cost for this ambitious project would be.
There is, however, cost data on what operating a complex mechanical entity offshore would come to.
An offshore oil platform meets a lot of the requirements that this proposed endevour would have included in it.
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posted on
03/17/2013 4:14:07 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Kaslin
The world's largest cruise ship passenger capacity is over 8,500 guests-crew-officers, and she's nothing short of a floating city. The biggest passenger ships in the world are actually two identical twins. They are sister vessels of the Oasis-class, belong to the second largest cruise company in the world - Royal Caribbean International, and bare the "modest" (and quite proper, for that matter) names of "Allure" and "Oasis". And, naturally, like all the Royal Caribbean cruise ships names - with the "unpretentious" suffix "of the Seas".
(however, if it sinks, it has 18 lifeboats with 370 capacity each. Ooops! looks like some {around 1,840} will have to swim!)
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posted on
03/17/2013 4:25:54 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Kaslin
seems like a necessary step in developing a mad-scientist supervillain
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posted on
03/17/2013 5:02:46 AM PDT
by
fnord
(My life is like the movie Willard, except with hummingbirds)
To: Kaslin
Orlin Grabbe would be proud. He visualized a similar situation in Costa Rica. His group even developed their own cyber currency and banks.
Lisbet and Janes will be taken off homicide to stakeout millionaires that permanently reside on quake proof Blue and commute as necessary
California is really doomed now
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posted on
03/17/2013 5:11:08 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
To: glorgau
I was a vendor for a Korean contractor with offices in Ft Lee New Jersey. They were cheap, cheap, cheap!!!
They had a visa problem for all the people. I don’t think they had any Americans at all. Many of them lived together crammed into small apartments. They all caught the flu and practically shut the place down.
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posted on
03/17/2013 5:16:28 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
To: Mr. Jeeves
It has been done and here is what is left of the effort. Orlin J Grabbe died but his vision survives
http://orlingrabbe.com/
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posted on
03/17/2013 5:25:55 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Those are good points. You'd think it would make sense to start on a smaller scale, and build up.
But as someone else said, the ocean 12 miles out isn't exactly a stable platform. If someone can invent a way to dampen the wave oscillations, they'll really have something. Maybe even harness the energy to power the place.
What have we come to ? Not only is it not the answer to our problems, it's really pathetic. We're abandoning our towns and cities. We need more small business owners and to build personal wealth. And then to get up off our collective duff and start using that wealth to tell politicians what to do instead of them telling us what to do. By participating in society - and then coming to lead society. Not by running for the hills, stockpiling food, turning out the militia, etc., but by getting rich and then LEADING.
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posted on
03/17/2013 9:00:53 AM PDT
by
PieterCasparzen
(We have to fix things ourselves)
To: zeestephen
Didn't work-out too well in that movie, either.
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posted on
03/17/2013 10:59:19 AM PDT
by
Tallguy
(Hunkered down in Pennsylvania.)
To: Kaslin
Who will provide them with security from “pirates” and natural/manmade disasters....will our Navy or Coast Guard?
Sounds not too well thought out to me. What is to keep this from becoming a security threat to the United States?
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posted on
03/17/2013 12:00:58 PM PDT
by
Sola Veritas
(Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
To: kingu
"The 12 NM limit will evade a whole lot of US paperwork and regulation, but it is still within the 200 NM limit of regulation regarding the environment, which means full authority of the Coastal Commission and US environmental, health and safety regulations. Beyond, in making a stationary structure (which is what a permanently moored ship would be under international law), at any moment the US government has full authority to nationalize the structure." Excellent analysis. I know very little about maritime laws and you gave a nice dose of reality and balance to the topic.
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posted on
03/17/2013 3:11:26 PM PDT
by
uncommonsense
(Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
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