What I find impressive is that he somehow managed to renovate this property for only $2.7M?! Including 350 helicopter trips over two days!
Why couldn't he rent a boat?
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#32Amazing and only £3 million!? Out of my budget but that's probably about the cost of a normal house in London. Things like this fort make me convinced that automated electric drone taxis could open up a lot of living possibilities. Get one of those and you could turn it into an amazing Airbnb or alternatively a community.
> Amazing and only £3 million!? Out of my budget but that's probably about the cost of a normal house in London.
Yeah, but you have far fewer of the amenities and benefits than a city like London provides. Also, the recurring costs are no doubt greater, like food deliveries, public utilities, etc.
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#33Amazing and only £3 million!? Out of my budget but that's probably about the cost of a normal house in London. Things like this fort make me convinced that automated electric drone taxis could open up a lot of living possibilities. Get one of those and you could turn it into an amazing Airbnb or alternatively a community.
I'd rather live in central London. And maintenance and running costs are probably higher than a regular house. If you want to get away from it all there are cheaper alternatives. And if you are not afraid of maintenance cost, there are also better alternatives, such as a small castle or a farm, closer to where other people live.
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#34Clearly, it needs a secret tunnel to the mainland, with really good pumps and backup power.
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#35Why does the article say it's 3 nautical miles off the coast? If you just zoom out a bit on google maps, I measure the mainland to be less than 1000 ft. away.
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#36Why does the article say it's 3 nautical miles off the coast? If you just zoom out a bit on google maps, I measure the mainland to be less than 1000 ft. away.
I think it’s the distance by boat to the nearest dock, not as the seagull flies
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#37If anyone wonders about motivation for this sort of thing, Adam Nicholson's Sea Room might be worth a look. Nicholson was the owner of the Shiants, three small islands off the Hebrides.
Each of the Shiants are a bit larger and have more features than this fort on a rock though. And Nicholson inherited them and passed them on to his son.
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#38zombie proof as TIL they generally aren't good swimmers. But in a real end of world sitch I think it's from one of those nearby fjordy bits no?
You haven't read World War Z! Zombies don't need to swim, they just walk on river and ocean bottoms. When there's billions of them, a few will make it anywhere.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shipped in surely, everything else would need to be anyway. The flushing toilets etc. mentioned as a challenge probably use a rainwater collection system or perhaps seawater (I'm not sure if the latter's done, desalination probably necessary?).
You can run toilets on seawater just fine, maybe some slightly different seals.
It was corrosion to pipes I was thinking of. Though perhaps if nothing existed already they'd have been allowed to use plastic pipework (highly doubt they'd get listed building consent for replacing existing with plastic).
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#40"Tech entrepreneur Mike Conner said the undertaking had been part of a "mid-life crisis.""
This made me laugh. Props, there are far less productive things he could have done.