From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 08:09:16 MDT
--- Jeff Davis <jrd1415@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- cryofan@mylinuxisp.com wrote:
> > "Michael S. Lorrey" <mlorrey@yahoo.com> said:
> >
> > >
> > > [quote from: cryofan@mylinuxisp.com on 2003-06-02
> > at 14:28:58]
> > >
> > >At 500, buy in would average at $20k.
>
> $4.5 mil divided by 500 gives $9k buy in.
snip amortization and market comparison figures...
I'm expecting a need to do some chipping and painting, bilging out the,
er, bilge, and disposing of much outmoded and unnecessary hardware,
plus building more modern and convenience-equipped cabin quarters, so I
rounded the necessary capital off at $10mil.
I suppose we could have a slave class of masochistic individuals on
board, who would PAY $9k to live in terrible, unimproved quarters and
be willing to invest all of their time in sweat equity. But I hear that
slaves aren't worth the investment.
THen we could have someone who thinks he's Gollum living down in the
bilge, operating the bilge pumps and calling out for his precious...
>
>
> > > 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.
>
> Yes!
And I know just how to alter the flap systems to give them equal throw
left and right.
>
> > >and make it a
> > > sailing ship... Extropian Windjammer Cruises,
> > anyone?
>
> Yes!
>
> I checked in on the Extropian Principles and
> discovered that apparently "Dynamic Optimism" has been
> 'downgraded' to "Practical Optimism". I'll stick to
> the old 'dynamic' if it's all the same to you.
I'm a classical extropian myself. Practicality is for people who have
to worry about shareholder lawsuits.
>
> And speaking of extropian principles, what is the ExI
> position on fun? I'm unclear on this. I checked the
> "Principles" and can't seem to find fun specifically
> mentioned. Surely an oversight.
Yeah, originally, it didn't fit in the "BEST DO IT SO", so it was left
out. It was assumed that true extropians would find fun by following
the principles as a matter of course, but that might have been too
dynamically optimistic an assumption.
=====
Mike Lorrey
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