On 01-10-98 David Martorana wrote to Day Brown... 
 
 DM>  ++> Floating city: @ Popular Mechanics Feb. 1998 
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 DM>   In keeping with the idea that philosophy might be effected by 
 DM>   how we live, and your interest in synthetic cities, there is 
 DM>   an article in Pop Mechanics this month (5 pages/pictures)on 
 DM>   the "Freedom", a floating city 1 mile long, two football fields 
 DM>   wide and 25 stories high and able to sustain a permanent 
 DM>   population of 50,000 (richy-ish) people. It would hug the coast 
 DM>   following a permanent sun. They are presently searching for a 
 DM>   company to build it. As you had similar ideas, I thought this 
 DM>   might help in seeing the problems and expense of such an 
 DM>   equivalent for animal/plant environmentalism...... 
I suspect it is a report on an entrepreneurial Libertarian 
effort that has been around for quite a while. They may 
still have a website.  And, yes- the trouble and expense 
they envision is probly a vast understatement of what it 
would really cost if they ever got organized. 
 
However, I do not see them ever getting anywhere.  Part 
of what they are about is a tax shelter, and that is 
already being done on natural islands. 
 
Even though I advocate a floating facility, you are 
very correct David, that the problems and expense in 
a venture so novel as this would be very difficult to 
plan for, and I expect these plans, such as do exist, 
not to be flexible enough to meet the realities. 
 
Nevertheless, where else but here on the nets would 
such a thing be discussed, and where else, would data 
that might relate, such as you post, be brought to 
bear on the questions that arise? 
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