Setting Sail on a Giant, Floating City (Super mile long ship holds 17,000 families!)

Foxnews.com ^ | 1/4/01 | michael y. park

[finnman69]

NEW YORK

[finnman69]

And I present, the World's Biggest Terrorist target!

[isthisnickcool]

Ditto!

[GingisK]

World's Biggest Terrorist target!

Not to mention iceburgs.

[Tai_Chung]

Freedom Ship Website

Fredom Ship Bulletin Board Forum

If you check out the forum, you'll see people that support the project that have real doubts about the viability of this project.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Freedom Ship website.

[SoCal Pubbie]

According to the article, the most amazing thing about this ship is its ability to travel from the English Channel all the way to the coast of Thailand in ONE DAY! It must have a warp drive engine, I guess.

[LEGACIES ARE FOR LOSERS]

Didn't these guys see that obscure movie "Titanic" from a few years back?

[LN2Campy]

Yes. If their naval architecture is anything like their grammar, this hulk won't even make it out of the shipyard.

[Silly]

It looks like a floating parking ramp.

[thefactor]

The website says it will spend 30% of its time in motion. And if it covers the earth every two years, that means it can go around the earth every 219 days or so.

[Gordian Blade]

Is this another scam like the supposed Zelazny "Lord of Light" theme park? link

[cynicom]

Do I smell a swindle coming on?

[SoCal Pubbie]

"It's like any other metropolis, except you could be brunching on fresh Parisian croissants one day and pad thai straight from the streets of Bangkok the next."

Paris to Bangkok in one day.

[discostu]

You just gotta love this kind of brilliant idiot. Arcologies still haven't worked on a useful scale on land and now these folks wanna take one out to sea. Gonna be an interesting day when a boat that big starts getting pummeled by 20 foot seas in the North Atlantic. Let's see 17,000 families times 2.8 people per family (pulling a rough estimate out of my rearend) = a serious new record for maritime disaster that should stand for a really long time.

[Frances_Marion]

"And I present, the World's Biggest Terrorist target!"

LOL! Get out of my mind or stop paying rent! One successful run like on the Cole, and that thing'd sink in minutes.

[Frances_Marion]

er, start paying rent...

[Salgak]

Well. once upon a time, a Virginia politician was nearly destroyed for the quip about the 14th Street Bridge connecting Virginia to Africa. . . .

[Barak]

It will be topped by airstrips and ringed by a marina where residents and visitors can dock boats, and will measure nearly a mile long ? 4,500 feet long, 750 feet wide and 350 feet tall.

A 4500ft airstrip isn't much, really. Lots of twin-engine bizjets have insurance policies that won't allow them to land on runways shorter than 5000ft. Yes, there's the fact that the ship could diminish runway requirements by steaming into the wind, but is the captain of a ship like that going to want to change course every time some rich playboy wants to land his airplane? Somehow I don't think so.

What are the playboys going to do: land their fancy G-IVs at some inland airport and then go try to find the Freedom Ship in a Bonanza or something? Hmmm.