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Floating City: Plan For 40,000 People To Live On The High Seas by honorsam(m): 8:47pm On Nov 29, 2013
A Florida-based firm wants to create a 'community on the sea' which would circle the globe every two years.
The wealthy could soon choose to spend their entire lives circumnavigating the world on a vast floating city, if the vision of a Florida-based firm becomes reality.
The $10 billion Freedom Ship would offer 40,000 residents a permanent ocean-going home complete with hospitals, schools, shops, parks and even a small airport.
At 25 storeys high and a mile long - four times longer than the Queen Mary II - the 2.7 million-tonne vessel would be so large that it could never enter a port. Instead, it would circle the globe once every two years, anchoring offshore major cities to allow its residents to enjoy some of the world’s top destinations - or shake off any seasickness.
Envisioned to spend approximately 70 per cent of its time moored up and 30 per cent transiting between countries, the Freedom Ship would leave the east coast of the United States in June and cross the Atlantic to Europe. There - to coincide with the summer months - it would loop around the north coast of Scotland to Scandinavia and back through the English Channel before heading down to the Straits of Gibraltar and into the Mediterranean.
Christmas would be spent off the north coast of Africa followed by a jaunt down to the Cape of South Africa in January. The vessel would then head across to Australia in time for the latter months of the Antipodean summer before travelling up through Asia and crossing the Pacific to the US west coast in September.

Source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10482144/Floating-city-Plan-for-40000-people-to-live-on-the-high-seas.html

Re: Floating City: Plan For 40,000 People To Live On The High Seas by normaljenny(m): 9:04pm On Nov 29, 2013
And we are still talking about PDP, APC, APGA, ASUU, ELECTRIC, BOKO HARAM, etcc., here in niaja

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