A continent generally provides more opportunities to be self-sufficient than a retro-fitted cruise ship.
EDIT: Also, survival rate on those colonization trips? Not so great. And that was with things like DIRT around that you can PLANT things in.
Basically, the 'floating city' idea is just a rebranding of what current cruise ships already offer: Pay exorbitant prices for everything in order to be on the ocean. Ain't no new society coming out of that.
Sigh. Plenty died of starvation and exposure. Read up on history sometime, disease was one of the lower risk factors the first few winters.
A bunch of programmers on a boat who need to get every single essential supply from the mainland is not a society. It's a tax avoidance scheme.
It might even be profitable for a generation, until they start having kids and incur more costs.
And the funniest part? Small groups of people in scarcity/survival situations tend to organize themselves into something that looks much more like collectivism than it does capitalism.
When you criticize my lack of imagination, do you mean 'imagine' in the John Lennon sense?
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A continent generally provides more opportunities to be self-sufficient than a retro-fitted cruise ship.
EDIT: Also, survival rate on those colonization trips? Not so great. And that was with things like DIRT around that you can PLANT things in.
Basically, the 'floating city' idea is just a rebranding of what current cruise ships already offer: Pay exorbitant prices for everything in order to be on the ocean. Ain't no new society coming out of that.
Also, survival rate on those colonization trips? Not so great. And that was with things like DIRT around that you can PLANT things in.
Early colonists didn't know much about desalination and hydroponics.
Ain't no new society coming out of that
You very well may be correct as far as probability of an outcome, but your cynicism and lack of imagination are so very wrong... and sad.
Sigh. Plenty died of starvation and exposure. Read up on history sometime, disease was one of the lower risk factors the first few winters.
A bunch of programmers on a boat who need to get every single essential supply from the mainland is not a society. It's a tax avoidance scheme.
It might even be profitable for a generation, until they start having kids and incur more costs.
And the funniest part? Small groups of people in scarcity/survival situations tend to organize themselves into something that looks much more like collectivism than it does capitalism.
When you criticize my lack of imagination, do you mean 'imagine' in the John Lennon sense?
Yeah, it's like we don't even speak a similar language.