Re: The good ship Extro 1

From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Sun Jun 01 2003 - 16:52:31 MDT

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    Heh, heh! ...You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one : )
    AR
    PS Actually, it sounds like 'Sealand'.

    Robert J. Bradbury wrote:

    >Pls note, for the small amount of $4.5M, we can purchase an Ex-aircraft
    >carrier (not so sure why it is "ex") and have the "Extro 1", the first
    >Extropian "enclave". [Since we would probably have to dig deep into our
    >pockets to purchase something like even one F/A-18 Hornet maybe its good
    >that its "ex"]. With interest rates so low we could probably pool our
    >resources and get a loan to cover most of the cost.
    >
    >Imagine days of lying in the sun out on the deck, bungee jumping off of
    >end of the deck, etc. Nights we could crank up our 30 inch telescopes
    >(why have just one with so much deck space available?) and do survey
    >searches for MBrains. Perhaps we could earn enough money to pay
    >the mortgage on the ship by simply leasing telescope time to amateur
    >astronomers who want to observe things but don't want the hassle
    >of building & maintaining a telescope or who live in cities where it
    >simply isn't practical. We could set up a complete molecular biology
    >research laboratory (I've got the equipment) and thumb our collective
    >noses at restrictive cloning regulations or proprietary patents.
    >
    >For further info see:
    > http://www.frenchcreekboatsales.com/details.asp?File_Number=BOP12
    >or
    > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/1740227&mode=thread&tid=159&tid=186
    >
    >If we pooled our collective talents we might even be able to convert
    >the oil boilers to solar boilers and significantly lower the fuel
    >costs of navigation (to avoid hurricanes, etc.).
    >
    >Most importantly we can reduce list traffic because we can all just
    >lie around and talk to each other at a somewhat higher bandwidth.
    >
    >Robert
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