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Erikht

Joined: 08 Feb 2005
Posts: 3358

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 12 12:23 pm Post subject: Floating Islands

A couple of years ago I posted a Science-Fiction picture of floating Islands. Just a dream. Now, somebody planes to make them reality, though I feel that 2100 might be a bit late to launch them.

https://www.mnn.com/your-home/remodeling-design/photos/10-innovative-ideas-that-let-us-live-on-water/real-life-waterworl
I still want them to float with the ocean currentens, using different climate sones for different kinds of horticulture (agriculture might be a tad optimistic) and aquaculture. And Imagine living in an everlasting late August...

pyrotech

Joined: 10 Jul 2007
Posts: 107
Location: Aylesbury

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 12 12:39 pm Post subject:
Not quite on that scale, but the Mexican floating gardens provided food and shelter for quite a few people.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 12 12:42 pm Post subject:
Hello Erikht: lovely to hear form you again after a long break.

Erikht

Joined: 08 Feb 2005
Posts: 3358

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 12 4:03 pm Post subject:
Tally Ho!

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 12 6:11 pm Post subject:
I reckon the thing to do is to start at the Pacific Gyre and start tying together all the flotsam...

Erikht

Joined: 08 Feb 2005
Posts: 3358

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 12 4:51 am Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

I reckon the thing to do is to start at the Pacific Gyre and start tying together all the flotsam...

One of the alternatives were exactly that.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 12 8:41 am Post subject:

Erikht wrote:

Hairyloon wrote:

I reckon the thing to do is to start at the Pacific Gyre and start tying together all the flotsam...

One of the alternatives were exactly that.

Got a link?

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 12 9:14 am Post subject:
Ah - not the classic French dessert then

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 12 9:37 am Post subject:

Green Rosie wrote:

Ah - not the classic French dessert then

That was my first though too.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 12 1:33 pm Post subject:
And me.

Erikht

Joined: 08 Feb 2005
Posts: 3358

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 12 6:44 am Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

Erikht wrote:

Hairyloon wrote:

I reckon the thing to do is to start at the Pacific Gyre and start tying together all the flotsam...

One of the alternatives were exactly that.

Got a link?

https://www.mnn.com/your-home/remodeling-design/photos/10-innovative-ideas-that-let-us-live-on-water/plastic-islands

It's one of the ten alternatives. The small pictures under the large picture are links to the other ideas.

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