re: sf housing crisis, could we charter massive cruise ships to permanently circle the area, picking up / dropping off in the city 5 or 10 times a day? maybe 10 ships, 50,000 rooms?
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It is crazy how many times I've heard versions of this idea. You could keep them floating quite a ways out semi-permanently if you had sufficient demand to keep a few taxi-boats in business
that didn’t even occur to me - that’s brilliant. dramatically reduces energy costs and pretty much kills the environmental argument against.
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I asked one of the Seasteading Institute guys about this and he claims the economics don’t work; either you dock (and pay a ton) or people slosh around too much. Which is infuriating! Because you can buy cruise ships for like $100k per room.
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Isn’t treasure island like, right there
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@dandv and others tried this a few years back https://blueseed.com/Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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So why isn’t this a thing already? Nvm I understand now: A cruise ship costs around $.5-1 billion jfc
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some quick back of envelope calculation says it would take ~10 years to recoup investment assuming no further costs
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Now you just need to outfit one of those bad boys with a nuclear reactor and we're talking!
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ok almost said it myself but understand i’m already pushing the envelope here
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Those cruise ships use a disgusting amount of diesel though. It would be huge pollution
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