Floating city to be built?

[Viper GTS]

OK, this looks kinda odd...

Global Contacts

Why the Juno e-mail addresses?

Looks fishy to me...

Viper GTS

 

[Eug]

Either this is a hoax, a scam, or else the sorriest website for a major project I've seen in a while. I would avoid this like the plague.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

i can think of a lot of better ways to build a city for 90k people for 8.5 billion....whats that? $100,000 per resident? thats a lot of lempiras.

 

[Plantanthera]

"Freedom Ship, a soon to be constructed, massive ocean-going vessel. With a length of 4,320 feet, a width of 725 feet, and a height of 340 feet"

"and the Gypsy 2000 which will be a 2,000 foot version of the Freedom Ship to be used as a convention center"

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

for all those of you wanting to go live on the loveboat...

An economy unit (designated EU) has just been added to the pre-construction sales list. It has a full bath, but no kitchen. It is 300-square feet and sells for $121,000 (first 1,000 sales). The monthly maintenance fee is $442. Time share program is available at $40,000 (first 1,000 sales) with a monthly $70.00 maintenance fee, go to the Residential Unit Pricing for details.

 

[Plantanthera]

They are looking at 90000 res that have spend roughly $1000000 per home that would translate to 50 billions in sale, not including commercial space :Q

 

[Turkey]

I'd hate to be a construction worker in the Honduras building this thing... that's smack in the middle of hurricane territory, right?

 

[SuperTool]

Seems to me that unless you have a window room, it's like living in a giant underground bunker. Stupidest thing I have ever seen.
Why do such a large one right away? Why not build one for 5000 people and see if people want to live in it all year.

 

[BadMuleS]

good points i just thought this was neat lol didnt say i would be livin there... i can barely scrap enough money to put ZR rated tires on my mustang gt vertible

 

[bastula]

I thought I saw something like this on the Travel channel. It was a partnership between Carnival and somebody else. But supposedly they are or going to start building it for real.

 

[eakers]

doesnt anyone else see how wrong this is?
we have polluted the oceans enought now we want to build over them?

i hope this never happens.

*kat. <-- cant believe people actually think this is an alright idea.

 

[kami]

holy sh!t! that thing is unbelievable.

I don't think they would make it unless they are sure it could withstand a hurricane. Then again, they could always drive in in areas of the oceans that do not get hurricanes and also not go through those areas during hurricane season. The only way to get people on that boat would be via plane, so whenever they make a tourist stop I bet it would take days to get everyone off the boat.

 

[Jazar]

eakers, did you read the &quot;common misconceptions&quot; secton on their website?

 

[sharkeeper]

This one is for real and I was considering purchasing a few units as well.

Cheers!

 

[Howard]

LOL Misperceptions! Me fail English? Unpossible!

 

[buck]

I hope this thing passes by my local beach, imagine the waves just from this thing. :Q

 

[Viper GTS]

imagine the waves just from this thing

Actually, at the speeds it's likely to move at I suspect there wouldn't be much of anything. Plus, didn't they say something about anchoring it like 30 miles off shore? That's quite a ways.

Viper GTS

 

[RaDragon]

<< Why the Juno e-mail addresses? >>

- yup, sounds kinda hokey...

i wonder what kind of internet connection they'll be getting

 

[bigrash]

that looks cool.

 

[datalink7]

wasn't Marriot and a couple other big hotel firms getting together to build a hotel in space? I heard that some time ago. Did that come to a halt or something?

 

[StageLeft]

I heard about that too...can't remember what happened to the idea though.

 

[jumblies]

we already have california, why do we another floaty?

 

[Shantanu]

That thing is so long that - in the unlikely event that do build it, IMO - the bottom will have a curved surface to accomodate the curvature of the Earth (or sea, as it may be)

 

[Pastore]

$8.5 billion??? that doesnt seem like very much money for a project this size....

 

[DoOLiE11]

very interesting, they are doing things like that now with cruise ships, there is some cruise ship being built for people to live on, costs like 1.5 milltion to 3.5 million to own one.

saw this on the good ole travel channel