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An Anonymous Investor Is Spending Millions to Make Underwater Homes

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Re: An Anonymous Investor Is Spending Millions to Make Underwater Homes

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Post by ANewFormation »

rgmerk wrote: post #4

Somebody watched Octonauts as a kid... More seriously, this seems like an elaborate troll of space settlement enthusiasts. It's far simpler and less demanding than long-term settlement in space...and you still look at it and go "WTF would anyone want to do that? Wouldn't it just be easier to send robots down"?

Haha. People just have different drives. I'm definitely a space enthusiast, but also see this as an awesome idea.

In the grand scheme of things I think humans will colonize all environments, and starting to master water would open up immense amounts of land, so to speak.

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

analog31 wrote: post #5
bruce511 wrote: post #3

There's been a spate of underwater-living articles lately, and there's no doubt the ocean is an area ripe for research. But to be clear, these facilities require surface support - they are not self-sustaining. Which is perfectly fine (the ISS is not self sustainable either.) So this isn't "humanity moving into the sea", it's "humanity learning more about the sea". Which is certainly a worthwhile goal.

At the very least they need somewhere for bike storage. And none of us are self sustaining. Humanity needs the Haber-Bosch process and a thousand other things to sustain ourselves at the present moment.

But what colour the bike shed?

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Post by teleforce »

>anonymous private investor, has begun work to create a ‘permanent human settlement’ under the sea

This sound so preposterous as work to create ‘permanent human settlement’ in Mars.

But if given a choice which one to support with my money with zero probability of any returns, I will much rather supporting sea settlement than Mars.

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Post by computerthings »

bruce511 wrote: post #3

There's been a spate of underwater-living articles lately, and there's no doubt the ocean is an area ripe for research. But to be clear, these facilities require surface support - they are not self-sustaining. Which is perfectly fine (the ISS is not self sustainable either.) So this isn't "humanity moving into the sea", it's "humanity learning more about the sea". Which is certainly a worthwhile goal.

Or it might be just another variant of the various bunker building efforts to ride out the coming upheavals.

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Post by atmavatar »

shmerl wrote: post #7
rgmerk wrote: post #4

Somebody watched Octonauts as a kid... More seriously, this seems like an elaborate troll of space settlement enthusiasts. It's far simpler and less demanding than long-term settlement in space...and you still look at it and go "WTF would anyone want to do that? Wouldn't it just be easier to send robots down"?

Or may be played Bioshock or Aquanox.

Would you kindly come settle in Rapture?

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Post by hulitu »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #12
analog31 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At the very least they need somewhere for bike storage. And none of us are self sustaining. Humanity needs the Haber-Bosch process and a thousand other things to sustain ourselves at the present moment.

But what colour the bike shed?

> But what colour the bike shed?

You can choose between 2 colors: light and dark. See answers.microsoft.com for details. /s

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Post by delichon »

teleforce wrote: post #14

>anonymous private investor, has begun work to create a ‘permanent human settlement’ under the sea This sound so preposterous as work to create ‘permanent human settlement’ in Mars. But if given a choice which one to support with my money with zero probability of any returns, I will much rather supporting sea settlement than Mars.

Do you have so little faith in humans' capacity to make Earth uninhabitable? There's no value to you in putting a few eggs in another basket?
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