Andrew Martin
Extropian, space enthusiast, and First Millennial Foundation member
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On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Michael Lorrey wrote:
> Y'know, I've been wondering why those Project Aquarius and Millenial Project
> people are not getting anywhere. Duh, they could easily be buying up some of
> the hundreds of surplus oil tankers sitting in ports around the world to start
> their independent communities. Oil tankers are at least 1000 feet long, the
> size of a Nimitz class aircraft carrier, which houses a crew of 5000. With no
> airport to support, an oil tanker based community could easily support that
> many in much more spacious accomodations. link several together into a large
> raft or catamaran or trimaran and you're talking real space. Using those empty
> holds for starting workroom and you could get really grand. Olympic swimming
> pools, huge dance halls, and indoor rain forests/arboretums.
>
> Buy a couple Russian submarine nuclear propulsion systems for the ships and
> you're golden. I don't know if I'd trust such a large investment only to wind
> power.....If they only wanted to anchor the boats, they could easily generate
> all of their power needs from wave generation.
>
> Prof. Gomes wrote:
>
> > A quick suggestion, since I'm in a hurry..:
> >
> > We could think in stablishing an extropian country...
> >
> > We'll need, among other things:
> >
> > 1. some extropian billionaires to initial finnancial support.
> >
> > 2. chose a small site in, f.ex., Africa, which we could buy... ( They need
> > money and we need a place...).
> >
> > Bye, for a while,
> >
> > Gomes
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>
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