These giant floating piers let visitors walk on water, made from renewable interlocking plastic cubes

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[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Cool link about sea-steading. That ship looks very over-engineered lol.

The first step would be to make a very small island, like 5000 sqft, and then take it out there with 1 boat, and just hang out for a few weeks and see how it reacts to the waves and such. Perhaps there could even be a wave-break around it to calm the waters under the island. Once the concept is proven, then we could think about expanding it.

I guess I could rent a boat instead of buy one, and I could just use the ship engines to re-position the island at first. But I'd still have to buy the cubes to build the island structure. We're probably still talking like $15k to try it out. Sounds fun. Maybe someday I can give it a try. It would be pretty incredible if it worked.

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I agree and wish you the best of luck towards it. Attempting a lot of this stuff in a simulation first, might cut some of your costs if you had access to the physics based software pertaining to engineering/architecture as well.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, maybe we can try it in a lake first, lol. That'd cut the cost by a lot too for the first try. I hope I can try it someday, it sounds interesting as heck. Thanks for the chat

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Likewise, anytime!