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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: Pete on February 25, 2014, 08:18:28 AM
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OK, so there have been some other foreign job idea threads that have run into some logistical snafus (e.g. monkey aides, endangered species, etc.), but the good news is that an even more awesome opportunity has presented itself.
FLOATING rough ridin' ISLAND CITIES IN BRAZIL!
There, I said it.
http://www.npr.org/2014/02/25/280671831/a-college-project-that-imagines-a-floating-city-for-oil-workers
Basically, we can expect this become reality very quickly. Brazil's state-owned oil and gas company, Petrobras, has vast resources. If they want this thing done, then it’s getting done.
Students at Rice University in Houston accomplished that with plans for a floating city that is being considered by one of the world's largest oil companies.
"We saw this crisis, this logistical crisis that was emerging as the newer [oil findings] were further and further offshore," Bhatia says.
Their solution seems right out of an Arthur C. Clarke novel. The class designed three large floating islands that are surrounded by 42 smaller islands. These smaller islands would provide the larger hubs with among other things, crops and electricity through solar and wave power. The three main hub islands would be as large as 1 kilometer by 2 kilometers [0.6 by 1.2 miles] and would be a mix of residential, office and industrial centers.
"We have a series of islands. There are three types — the hub island, which is the largest, considered more like a metropolitan island, where it has the densest population. It has apartments for workers and families, it has resources such as schools and office space," says Weijia Song, another student designer on the project.
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Now, we just need to figure out a way to get ourselves on that city island. It will be amazing. No liter, no homeless people, no (very few) disgusting chineese buffet restaurants, etc. Also, it’s in Brazil, so this thing is going to be one gigantic Carnival party most of the year. Oh, and you can count on that thing shutting down work every time a futball game is on tv. The Brazilians are a joyful people!
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scuba diving club
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are those guys holding onto the rope that holds the city close to land??
I could do that job. gimme like a 12er of BL limes and me and rick daris will hold those ropes so our Brazilian friends don't float away.
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IFC kicked me out for stealing the Beta's beer instead of throwing it away :(.
Will you have a fishing club?
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Will the union have $2 bowling and PBR's on Monday nights? If so I'm in
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that thing looks a lot like you just turned the Kauffman center upside down. are you sure this is an original idea, pete?
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Oh man. That place is definitely going to need software salesmen.
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Do you think we could install a rolling roof over our floating city island?
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Idea's for pledge activities
- Build canoe's out of rainforest tree's
-Challenge the locals to a soccer game
- Diving competition into the ocean
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I'm gonna own the zipline business.
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That looks like something. Can't quite put my finger on it yet... but I really like it guys.
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:Wha:
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yeah. spitting imagine of Kauffman center upside down.
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:lol:
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Somebody show me where the application link is? I want to be the first to live on the floating Oedipus Complex.
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already looking into which Brazilian cigar operation I'm gonna buy. DIBS!!! :excited:
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They cut off your head, legs, and arms over in brazil just for looking at them wrong. No thanks.
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that are surrounded by 42 smaller islands.
IT IS DESTINY
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EMAPE looks a lot like the green latern.
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:lol:
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lolololol
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I'll only sign on if the floating island declares itself to be a self rule Brazilian State with its own military, and immediately refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and denies access to IAEA inspectors.
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Man, I picked the wrong day to drop some relocation/career change posts and then be gone for the day.
I am thinking about opening a Hydrofoil taxi service between those islands and the main land.
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does your city island need a canal? i know a guy
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does your city island need a semi-violent political upheaval?
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I'll only sign on if the floating island declares itself to be a self rule Brazilian State with its own military, and immediately refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and denies access to IAEA inspectors.
we will get right on that
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Hey Pete! Are they still taking volunteers to go to Mars?
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when i heard "floating island", i thought it would be something like bioshock infinite.
kinda disappointed to be honest.
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Guys, what if we take all the endangered animals from the Nicaragua canal area and put them on the floating islands with the people?
Sitting around, drilling for oil and hand-feeding harpy eagles.
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That looks like something. Can't quite put my finger on it yet... but I really like it guys.
The only downside is that once a month there's an algae bloom that turns the water around the island red.
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Demand Planner checking in. Will have this island stocked with all the necessities with short lead times and great turn.