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Hopefully it'll take off better than the gigantic Freedom ship (check out the pictures). The Freedom Ship seems like a giant scam to me.

Um, ok. You don't like my 100 million migrate worker city idea. How about 1,000 of these http://www.freedomship.com/freedomship/overview/de sign.shtml ? They are supposed to house 100,000K each. I'd want them to be defended with a navy though so let's say 100 navy ships as well. Now we just need to power the things with nuclear reactors and have some hydroponics and we'd be set with a mobile nation.

I think some massive global migration would be good for us overall. The hurricane caused our first real widespread migration this generation in the US.

I disagree. There was considerable outmigration from California in the last 10 or 20 years. And there's a lot of people who are high mobility. For example, there's a growing population of retirement aged travellers living partially or fully out of an RV.

Could you envision a city purpose built for 100 million migrate workers? We just don't think on that level, yet.
That's probably a really bad idea. The concentration of infrastructure and population would make a very tempting military target. I recommend some degree of decentralization.

Um, ok. You don't like my 100 million migrate worker city idea. How about 1,000 of these http://www.freedomship.com/freedomship/overview/de sign.shtml ? They are supposed to house 100,000K each. I'd want them to be defended with a navy though so let's say 100 navy ships as well. Now we just need to power the things with nuclear reactors and have some hydroponics and we'd be set with a mobile nation.

There's some prior art for that idea...Freedom Ship

While this is a cool idea, and something I've pondered myself (it would be very hard to make it work), I think you guys have been trolled.

There is some merit to the idea (or at least varients of it), though. What's to stop someone from buying an old aircraft carrier, refitting it, and declaring it a sovereign nation? It would probably be difficult to get large nations to recognize it, but that wouldn't necessarily be a problem.

Of course, I'm far from the first to have such an idea, but I haven't seen anyone else suggesting that such a vessel could or should be a sovereign nation. Maybe I'm just crazy. Crazy like a fox!

That made me think of two things:

http://www.freedomship.com/

(a project that is not going anywhere soon, but a cool concept), and

http://www.sealandgov.com/

(sysadmins wanted)

Freedom Ship

Official site

It's on the way: http://freedomship.com/

The website guarantees you'll have your skycar by Dec 31st, 2006 if you make your $100,000 deposit (and pay nearly $1M more on delivery).... except their not accepting orders yet.
I've been watching this for years, and the Freedom Ship. They should get together and then everyone could have skycars on the freedomship instead of needing that massive runway.

I would drive this to my home aboard the Freedomship

They say that sea levels will rise due to the greenhouse effect...perhaps keeping it up would be a good thing.

Or perhaps we could all just set sai like this.

Desalination would be vital if you live in a floating city. If the world's population continues to grow then not only does this provide more living space, but more 'farm land' too.

But then again, I've been writing PHP code solidly for the last two days and I'm feeling kind of trippy. So perhaps the best course of action would be to make the US approve Kyoto after all.

Look over the web site. It's practically science fiction. It's a neat concept but I just can't see it actually succeeding, let alone financed and built.

Although like an aircraft carrier, Freedom Ship (the name of the ship, if you didn't follow the link) does have the ability to have aircraft take off and land on it.

Even with all the terrible accidents (one, to be more specific), Concorde is still much more capable than a meteorite. And it's not that meteorites evolved through natural selection. Howether, you actually can say that about meteoroids - they did evolve, while meteorites and meteors can be considered "unfit". :) But if we limit ourselves to comparing evolution on Earth with the achievements of human science and technology, meteor*s do not enter the picture.

Some supertankers weight at least 500 thousand tons empty. Less than a million (although there might be ones that weight more), but still impressive. And hopefully the Freedom Ship will be built soon.

Where do I sign up? :)

No need for the free state project when you can start from scratch with your own floating city.

(Of course, engineering on this scale will become magnitudes easier when bottom-up manufacturing replaces the ages old top-down bulktech.)

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I am going to put into this company all the money I've made from investing in the Freedom Ship project.

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You don't want Sealand, you want Freedom Ship. Who knows whether it will ever see the light of day, but the idea intrigues me. More the idea of travelling around the world over the course of 2 years, but it has several benefits that could appeal to the Slashdot crowd.

http://www.freedomship.com/

(a project to build a mobile libertarian haven disguised as an overgrown cruise ship)

Not Quite.

From the Freedom Ship Web Site (my emphasis added):

Governing Laws
Freedom Ship is only a ship, not a political entity. It will operate under the same rules and regulations as any cruise ship. As a sea-going commercial vessel, it will fly the flag of a specific country (to be determined at a later date), enjoy the protection of that country, and be subject to its laws and regulations, as well as to maritime law. In addition, its residents will be subject to the ships Rules and Regulations.
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"This is the nineties. You don't just go around punching people. You have to say something cool first."

Especially when you have a floating country! But then you don't need to be virtual at all... You'd just have a lot of expatriates.