Anyone like the idea of starting a mobile island community?

Kazz · 25 Oct 2011 at 19:00

I preferred it when we lived on that spaceship.

Frenzy · 25 Oct 2011 at 19:32

What if a giant kraken or squid attacked?

You have to think of these things you know...

Tefal · 25 Oct 2011 at 19:33

Radiation said:
That's a good idea but storms shouldn't be a huge problem if you pick decent locations, i read somewhere that guys island has been through some rough weather and survived, surely if it's free to move with the wind and waves it's less likely to breakup then if it was held in place?

Ocean storms batter massive cruise liners and container ships, they would tear this little thing to pieces.

heck it would probbaly pull it's self apart.

RomanNose · 25 Oct 2011 at 19:35

Tefal said:
Ocean storms batter massive cruise liners and container ships, they would tear this little thing to pieces.

heck it would probbaly pull it's self apart.

We could put it in the Thames, though I have heard that Mr Cameron probably won't want a floating flotilla of Islands carrying women in cages.

Uther · 25 Oct 2011 at 19:36

No, but I would love to live on a small holding somewhere quiet, away from everyone that annoys me.
and thats a lot of people.

Cosimo · 25 Oct 2011 at 19:37

Kazz said:
I preferred it when we lived on that spaceship.

I can arrange to have you transported back up. It’s far more civilised up there.

Turambar · 25 Oct 2011 at 19:37

Radiation said:
If a bunch of us do what this guy did and attached it to a small boat, we could create a mobile island community and travel anywhere we like living independently.

It can be done quite cheaply and has the potential to grow into something quite good, imagine getting to visit lots of nice warm locations, growing and catching your own food, while still keeping a technologically advanced way of life, low power devices are easy to run, laptop with satellite internet pretty much covers communication and entertainment.

I've even got some ideas on how we can create lots of energy cheaply from the wind and waves by encircling the islands with energy harvesters, which would also have the added benefit of making the inner area calm.

chaosdestro0 said:
We could put it in the Thames, though I have heard that Mr Cameron probably won't want a floating flotilla of Islands carrying women in cages.

Yeah...

KatanaDV20 · 25 Oct 2011 at 19:42

...won't want a floating flotilla of Islands carrying women in cages.

Lol

craptakular · 25 Oct 2011 at 20:14

I will be the Diversity Manager

flibbage0 · 25 Oct 2011 at 20:17

I'll be the local chemist.

KatanaDV20 · 25 Oct 2011 at 20:23

I'll run the Apple Store

flibbage0 · 25 Oct 2011 at 20:27

KatanaDV20 said:
I'll run the Apple Store

That would ruin the whole idea of an ocuk island.

Wasn't there a guy on this forum that left an island recently to pursue a career in medicine.

I remember him saying that the island had a population of a few thousand at most?

Does anyone remember the name of the island, it's somewhere near the UK (and no not the Isle of Wight

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Ahleckz · 25 Oct 2011 at 20:30

flibbage0 said:
That would ruin the whole idea of an ocuk island.

Wasn't there a guy on this forum that left an island recently to pursue a career in medicine.

I remember him saying that the island had a population of a few thousand at most?

Does anyone remember the name of the island, it's somewhere near the UK (and no not the Isle of Wight )

It was Tres, and he lived on the Isles of Scilly; Tresco to be exact. South West of Cornwall.

KatanaDV20 · 25 Oct 2011 at 20:32

That would ruin the whole idea of an ocuk island.

Lol!

arknor · 25 Oct 2011 at 20:38

Radiation said:
Here i made an image showing what i mean.

would that even work? the force of a wave isnt only on the top of the waters surface so the water inside wont actually be calm?

flibbage0 · 25 Oct 2011 at 20:44

Ahleckz said:
It was Tres, and he lived on the Isles of Scilly; Tresco to be exact. South West of Cornwall.

Cheers, would love to visit such a small island.

SeatIbiza · 25 Oct 2011 at 20:44

Is that not waterworld? If so, you've forgotten the slurry pit for dead things

The badies lived on an oil tanker

And Costner had an awesome catamaran/yacht thing with turbo kite

JCSlacker · 25 Oct 2011 at 21:21

http://www.seasteading.org/interact...ged-concrete-structures-living-space-bubble-c

Any of you guys heard of The Seasteading Institute, they take this community on the sea designs to a lot more detail. From reading up on there ideas, concrete is good, submersible islands protect against storms (something about effect undwater divers get, not noticing storms waves because they're completely submersed.).

I wanna submersible yacht, christmas gift?

Radiation · 26 Oct 2011 at 11:17

arknor said:
would that even work? the force of a wave isnt only on the top of the waters surface so the water inside wont actually be calm?

I've seen an image of it in action, it's pretty amazing how much energy can be taken out of the water, one side was rough waves and the other was flat calm water, not sure how effectively it could be done on the cheap though.

flibbage0 · 26 Oct 2011 at 11:21

Lol I can imagine the pics of stuff we bought thread.

Today I bought this island.