Re: The good ship Extro 1

From: cryofan@mylinuxisp.com
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 14:28:58 MDT

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    Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@yahoo.com> said:

    >
    > --- "S.J. Van Sickle" <sjvan@csd.uwm.edu> wrote:
    > > On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Mike Lorrey wrote:
    > >
    > > > Lets say we get 1000 extropes and transtopians to buy in at $10k
    > > > apiece. That would give each person cabin space and we could buy
    > > the
    > > > ship and have plenty of cash available for remodeling and
    > > improvements.
    > >
    > > Not to rain too much on the parade, but the ship's normal complement
    > > was 1300 persons. If true to form for a ship of it's era (and still
    > > now), a majority of that was hot bunking in tiers 5 or 6 deep.
    > > Unless you built cabins on the hanger or flight decks (thereby
    > > defeating many of the advantages of an aircraft carrier, and very
    > > expensive), there just isn't enough to "give each person cabin
    > > space".
    >

    Hmmm. On the carrier I was on there was no hotbunking with a complement of 5K
    men (Kitty hawk, built in the 60s). But it is possible there was hotbunking
    in an earlier carrier. Yes, the compartments often had as many as 100 people
    in them, and the beds were stacked 3 deep.

    As far as the viability of such a scheme...with extropian type people? YIKES!
    THat would be a disaster. We are not all that sociable. I myself had a
    helluva time being confined that way with so many people. THe ones who
    actually like it are very sociable people.



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