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Re:The Terayacht Project by ZoomerCretin on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @08:05PM (#33617540)
At the cost of only $8 billion, I'm surprised that more megaprojects like this aren't being done.

What monuments are we leaving for future generations? Why isn't anyone building a Great-Pyramid-of-Giza sized project every hundred years?

Re:The Terayacht Project by booi on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @09:32PM (#33618110)
Does the Great Pacific Garbage Patch count?
Re:The Terayacht Project by carapace on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @09:45PM (#33618188)
Ha! I'm planning to collect the GPGP and turn it into a large artificial floating structure. Floating in the air. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Nine_(sphere)

(It's mostly a stunt to show humanity that we can do great things.)

Re:The Terayacht Project by csh0 on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:01AM (#33619454)
A great Stack Exchange answer on the feasibility of such a structure.

https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/36667/can-...

Re:The Terayacht Project by carapace on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @10:29AM (#33624675)
I just skimmed it. Folks are having fun. :) The question isn't what material to use, it's how big do you have to be (with a given material) to float? You can always just make your sphere bigger, eh? (That's kinda the point. It would actually be really really inconvenient to live in a Cloud Nine, no?)

Anyway, I'm also going to use kites. (E.g. Imagine the Cloud Nine with a skirt like the Rings of Saturn, rotating, with the individual "cells" of the kite membrane modulated to afford directional control... Or Magnus Effect "cilia" that manipulate the envelope of air around the sphere...)

Re:The Terayacht Project by avaldez_ on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @10:07PM (#33618327)
The UK is in the Atlantic ocean not in the Pacific.
Re:The Terayacht Project by ronsor on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @09:48PM (#33618205)
Saudi Arabia is working on that super-expensive and fancy "The Line" city project.
Re:The Terayacht Project by lillywastaken on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @03:15AM (#33620354)
Which is, frankly, an idiotic waste of money.
Re:The Terayacht Project by pjc50 on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @04:38AM (#33620738)
Insufficient belief in the afterlife. Today's billionaires are content to burn out in a streak across the sky.