From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Sun Jun 01 2003 - 16:52:31 MDT
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.
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>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.
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>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
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>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.).
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>Most importantly we can reduce list traffic because we can all just
>lie around and talk to each other at a somewhat higher bandwidth.
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>Robert
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