Lilypads: Cities of the future?

[Ozrat]

I've never heard of a story of large aircraft carrier or shipping vessel sinking due to a stormy weather.

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank to due to stormy weather on an inland lake.

 

[Deleted member 53669]

Mother Nature, the ultimate terrorist.

Explains why the EPA is under the control of the GOP front-runners. Boy, puts this whole "Global Warming" debacle into perspective. Get Alex Jones on the phone, tell him I have a new idea for his radio-show.

 

[Zeal]

Actually, why that necessity to live underwater or float over it? Everyone knows that global warming is going to raise sea levels, but I never heard they are going to flood every corner of earth on the planet, thus, people can still live over earth. The real issue is that its going to have less space to people live, but not ANY space.

It's in humanity's best interest to be able to colonize every type of environment possible, should the shit hit the fan.

Ditto.

Plus we are born explorers, and need more space everyday for our growing numbers.

 

[iridium_ionizer]

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank to due to stormy weather on an inland lake.

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMOKQL26WD_index_0.html

You've never heard... you never looked.

I stand corrected, it seems many large vessels are damaged or sunk by large waves. Thanks for the photos and links.

Once dismissed as a nautical myth, freakish ocean waves that rise as tall as ten-storey apartment blocks have been accepted as a leading cause of large ship sinkings. Results from ESA's ERS satellites helped establish the widespread existence of these 'rogue' waves and are now being used to study their origins.

Severe weather has sunk more than 200 supertankers and container ships exceeding 200 metres in length during the last two decades. Rogue waves are believed to be the major cause in many such cases.

Mariners who survived similar encounters have had remarkable stories to tell. In February 1995 the cruiser liner Queen Elizabeth II met a 29-metre high rogue wave during a hurricane in the North Atlantic that Captain Ronald Warwick described as "a great wall of water… it looked as if we were going into the White Cliffs of Dover."

Anyhow, I still think it ocean-floating cities remains within the realm of possibility. Maybe this company is vaporware. Maybe not for another 200 years of technology advances, but the economics and physics seem to be far more favorable than space colonies at the present, so I think it will eventually happen.

 

[alec]

Mang... what kinda shit are you guys smoking?

Lilypads?

Fuck.

I think it's probably easier to grow fins.

 

[Wooz]

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