From: Michael S. Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 17:05:07 MDT
[quote from: cryofan@mylinuxisp.com on 2003-06-02 at 14:28:58]
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.
My original estimate was obviously somewhat off the cuff. The carrier would
obviously have no need of so much flight support equipment or manpower. Didn't
know what the original compliment was, my statement was shooting in the dark.
If we cut manpower to 500, then single bunk cabins should be de rigeur. If
we can eliminate lots of unneeded military and flight ops equipment, then
cabin size would increase significantly. At 500, buy in would average at
$20k. Smaller cabins could be let to those wishing to make lots of sweat
equity contributions (i.e. chipping and painting, etc).
Then lets imagine a fraction of cabins would be let as time-shares by the
month. $2k per month buy-in is a fantastic time-share rate.
Then we have to deal with operational costs. This obviously depends on the
sort of propulsion that would be used. Current installation would be fuel
hungry. One idea I have is that with that big flat deck, we could install a
number of scrap airliner wings vertically on pivoting masts. and make it a
sailing ship... Extropian Windjammer Cruises, anyone?
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