Australia second best place to live

DarkFool, we've already talked about this on IRC. It's going to be Tasmania. 499,998 slaves have to be good for something. Heck, most of us want to be disassociated from the mainland anyway.

What will we call it?

 

Muronia.

 

Taking a note from President-For-Life Nelson, let's call it Kickazistan.

 

Name: Boozylvania.
Government: Council of Sobriety overseen by the Vodkazar/Grand Imperial Majestestic Lord Archduke.
Or The Federated Principalities of Arland, Cumbria, and the Unified Kingdom.

 

Seconded! And don't forget the massive cinemas showing the best sci-fi, fantasy and all-round awesome moveis (and porn) 24/7.

 

I concur. Good luck finding one tho'. There's shitty international legal bs about that (wouldn't be the first time I've thought of forming a micronation) and if I'm not mistaken, save for Antarctica, every possible piece of dirt capable of/worth it is claimed by some government or another. There's always the Sealand route however. My personal preference would be to retrofit a tanker into a luxury floating city ala Freedom Ship style.

Fuck suffering crappy weather, storms, winter, blistering heat. Just up anchor and go elsewhere when desired.

 

I want that boat.

 

Freedom Ship? Silliest name of the year. I'd preferred Mega Death Ship of Impending Doom, written in the blood of all the heathens slain during the virgin trip.

 

Okay, all the islands are claimed, yeah? So make an island on pillars, dude, and make sure we've got enough ammo for our 'fuck off, peons' railguns.

 

Everything sounds better when you add DOOM to the end. Well, maybe not dildo of DOOM. Unless you're into orifice destruction. Actually they use the name Freedom Ship because it's intended to be an independent "city-state".

Apparently it's supposed to be so large that extreme weather nolonger affects it. I'm not entirely sure what that's supposed to mean...I'd imagine a hurricane would still shred it, flip it, and fuck it up and down then sink it.

Buy an abandoned oil rig.

 

That is typical human hubris - "if we make it big enough, it won't be affected by the laws of nature". I'd never sleep on one of those.

I do like the oil rig idea though, and we could retrofit the lower pylons with ship and submarine docking. Can't go wrong with a fleet of helicopters either.

 

This has me thinking of WaterWorld.

Good to see you, Peter! I think it's been awhile since I saw you post.

 

Human hubris is really good for invention but I agree. The last time someone said a ship couldn't sink nature bitch-slapped it with an iceburg.

 

Sorry, I just wanted to mention that this is one of the funniest damn things I've ever seen.

 

Richie Sowa made his own island.

 

I hope that ship is entirely self-sustaining, because I can't think of anything they could possibly produce to trade. Except fish, and we all know how successful regions that support themselves off the fishery industry are.

And it is definitely not extreme weather proof. We don't really need to worry about it tipping in a hurricane (assuming that its engineering is on par with other modern ships), because we've already built our vessels beyond that silliness. However, if designed as pictures, a powerful hurricane would sweep everybody off the open-concept decks and cause the aircraft to fall into the sea. This is certainly a workable idea, but it needs to go through a couple more conceptual stages.

Looking at this from a political perspective, at least we know that this won't be a warmongering nation. They literally have no resources that anybody else wants, and a single torpedo could end any war they decide to instigate. The only violent threat they face is terrorism or piracy.

Just to make sure, you checked to see whether or not this is real, and not part of the '2012' film's aggressive viral marketing campaign, right? The movie involves people trying to get on 'Super-Ships' to save them from the destruction and subsequent flooding of the Earth, sort of a mixture between the themes in Deep Impact and Waterworld (and probably the Director's previous films, Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow). Paramount has advertised the organization (IHS) as a 'real' entity on television, and has fooled plenty of people with it already.

EDIT: Wikipedia reveals Freedom Ship to be an ill-thought out mess that has been in 'development' for over a decade now. The side picture looks much better than the front angle, though.

 

I like the idea of the 'Freedom Ship.' If you actually got the whole world to go along with it, it'd actually be an intelligent idea: put everyone on boats, and convert all of the now-open land into farming space, industrial compounds, etc. While this is going on, the construction of massive 'Freedom Shuttles' are going on, to remove us from this god-forsaken-rock when we finish raping it of it's resources.

 

Yes.
And BIG ships to hold us and the shuttles while we travel the universe looking for other planets to rape where Will Smith will try to stop us.