they're like cities, but float on water

Not going to happen in the next 50 years, but they sure look awesome.

Dibs on the Healthybot.

If you can demonstrate that you can desalinate enough water to provide water for sustain human and plant life using the sun, I'm all for 'em.

>>5274623
keep your WHORE-on
ill take Aoi-chan~

gay

I remember seeing these in National Geographic Kids

>>5274625
I think the general idea is to have them close to coasts and immobile. Not like, free-floating.

Holy fucking nigger tits i want one

>>5274625 here

On second thought, the last thing the planet needs is more land for humans to live on. For fucks sake, aren't 5 continents good enough?

Certainly a thought-provocing thread. The idea of a floating city has long cought the imagination of man and beast alike.

As we keep on closing in on the ever-changing future and the fact that the seas are safer than ever lets us conclude that the dream is aproaching reality with speed surprising even the hardiest of men.

In conclusion I would like to point out that if we few lucky beings survive long enough we might see our no longer human progeny of our grandchildren live on these wonderful display of imagination and architecture.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/09/floating.cities.seasteading/index.html

San Fransisco is making one. It will probably be a gay-haven.

is it Hong Kong or something? They have run out of land completely .... so it makes sense, may be even cheaper than building something on land.

>>5274646

I was thinking about immobile land floating in the middle of the ocean, free from the jurisdiction of any existing country yet self sustainable.

>>5274664
will it be tsunami-safe? there's brutal seismic activity in that area ...

>>5274672

Let us make one. Let us build a free-floating nation of freedom!

>>5274662

And then all the fish die.

>>5274672
While I agree that would be preferable if it became possible (with the stipulations you already mentioned), considering it would probably take a government to fund the construction of one it is unlikely that they would relinquish control of it's inhabitants.

Would you kindly post more of your thoughts.

>>5274672
>>5274672
finally! It'll come to life...

>>5274679

If you are seriously interested, check out /pro/ (projects) on 99chan. Last time I checked, there was a "chan nation" thread up somewhere.

we already fucked up the oceans enough by killing all the fish.

>>5274683

As 5274687 already by his chosen uploaded picture has displayed, the government is overrated.

>>5274683
>Would you kindly...

looks like its not gonna work so well in practice

>>5274676
>tsunami-safe
If it's further off the coast, there is no ascending terrain for a monsterwave to build.

>>5274683

Not necessarily. It would take some funding, but nothing that a couple somewhat wealthy people couldn't provide, given that participants in the project do not expect compensation and the willingness to be a little "flexible" with the law (hey, it's international waters).

First, you would either find an abandoned oil rig or build something similar (first is preferable). Attach other floating platforms to it to provide greater surface area.
Ever seen a solar cooker, where it uses reflective surfaces focus sunlight onto one point? Build lots of those to boil seawater, collecting the vapors for fresh water. Use that water to grow plants for food. There are the necessities of life, right there. As long as you would be willing to devote a large amount of "land" to each resident, it could sustain a small population.

Not that it's entirely necessary, but electricity could come from either solar panels or wind turbines (wind on the sea is something fierce, if you've ever been on a boat. no trees out there to absorb it).

>>5274687

Lol no, that's retarded.

>>5274804
Interesting thoughts.

I would totally live on one for a week until I realized I had no internets.

Well, renting bandwidth on a satellite wouldn't be that expensive compared to the cost of building such a thing.

>>5274830

right because theres no internet cables to be found in the ocean or whatsoever

Wave-powered turbines could be another source of power, couldn't it?

>>5274860
I guess, assuming you put the island in the right spot.

>>5274860
or you could just do what the navy does, nuclear

>>5274873

What do you do about the waste though?

>>5274830

Personally, as long as I had some cool people to live with and a large server with a collection of ebooks, movies, video games, music etc, I'd be happy living most of my life there without internet. 'Course, I'd want to check in on the rest of civilization every now and then, just to see how things are going.

>>5274847

We could easily afford satellite internet if we sold weed or something. International waters, nothing stopping some tourists from visiting for a price. I'm not sure how far I'd go with that, however; I'm not really interested in developing a society away from modern capitalist society, just to cheapen the whole project by using it to get rich.

>>5274881

You're on an island that's floating on a vast expanse of water, and you're asking where we should throw away our waste?!

Sea vessels are bound by the laws of the country who's port they are registered with.

Where's the agriculture? Where's the industry, Where's the economy? Where are the natural resources?

This is a Ringworld scenario waiting to happen

>>5274912
where is your imagination?

I think an important aspect is flexibility. Sometimes anchored, sometimes drifting, sometimes actively moving forwards.

Using wind, wave and solar power as much as possible and all the time, with nuclear power to back it up and provide addtional energy.

Heat pumps and lots of glass windows to let sun in (but of course closable) to decreas the need to use eletricity to keep it warm.

>>5274912
Gambling. Tourism.

>>5274899

It's not a vessel, it's a floating piece of land.

>>5274912

>Where's the agriculture?

Only need this; unless you want to interact with the rest of the world...

Then don't register it.

Can somebody explain to me how a faggot like House made a non-shitty thread?

>>5274899

We'll buy and island and build our own port on it.

>>5274896

The nuclear waste yes, dumping it in the oceans sounds not good.

>>5274912

The people work with things such as writing, programing or things like that, food is gained from trade. Or it's big enough to support fields of crops and herded animals.