Comments on: City At Sea – Plans For The World’s Largest Ship – Freedom

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:23:27 +0000

can anyone say Waterworld? i don’t care whether it gets built or not. it doesn’t matter as it’s not in existence yet. Just leave it alone and if it comes, it comes, if not then oh well.

By: justoffsailing

justoffsailing — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:21:48 +0000

I hear a lot of guys saying the freedom ‘not possible’, and im sorry to disappoint you lot, but humans often have demonstrated the ability to do the impossible, often rather easily. Take the apollo missions, done on less processor power than the laptop im typing on now.

From my standpoint the Freedom is mechanically possible from all angles, water makers on small yacht exisit for sure, but we are forgetting a few cities in the US get 60-70% of their drinking water from the sea, water of only 20,000 is easy and the plant size isn’t that big. Some people have taked about the runway, fog closes Gatwick all the time, so what if the airport closes in storms, the fact remains the for a large amount of the time, it would be open.

A few people take about turning the beast, its true to say it turn capability is limited. Thruster be they Z drive or conventional thruster could both steer and stabily the vessel. But come on, this baby won’t be mooring to every day. Poeple would come and go from the runway, and therefore turn at sea, possible using the main engines and rudder would work fine.

People need to dream, because if no one did we would never do a heap of cool stuff.

ps to the future designer of the freedom, adding bioshere technology might allow the ship to grow is own food, just a thought

By: joshua

joshua — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:42:07 +0000

The Freedom Ship wold not need to turn it’s propelers would turn in a 360 .

By: William Moka

William Moka — Mon, 30 May 2011 05:01:56 +0000

This is just not possible, it would be very extremly hard to turn!! and what if the ship cap sizes? so many peoples lives will be lost!!

By: Caleb

Caleb — Sun, 01 May 2011 12:22:13 +0000

Imagine the cost to fill that thing up with fuel. Maybe like $30,000,000

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 03:36:17 +0000

My wife and I are thinking about heading for a Carnival Cruise vacation to Progresso, Mexico, plus Cozumel. It is a five Day get-away coming out of out of Mobile. Anyone have any exposure to this particular vacation cruise? We find it difficult to find out many details with reference to Progresso

By: Liam

Liam — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:49:36 +0000

If you read the spec, most of the probloems you’re all banging on about are dealt with. A boat that big isn’t gonna have to worry too much about the curvature of the earth. It’s not twenty miles long! Plus it’s riding on top of waves, not down a drag strip. Turning would take time, obviously. But the 360 rotating props on the bottom will help achieve this in the quickest possible time with a boat that size. Why would it snap in two if it’s supported by hundreds of air tanks along its full length? Capsizing is always gonna be a possible problem, but it would have to be one monstrous wave incurring the wrath of God himself to turn something that size. Still, it’s possible. And so are terrorist attacks. Not a chance in Hell would I wanna be on that thing if a bomb goes off. Let alone multiple explosions! It’s also all a bit 2012 isn’t it? The conspiracy theorists might say it’s a perfect bolt hole for the worlds elite should anything untoward ever happen. Like global flooding or maybe, for the serious conspiracy enthusiast, the land has been poisoned by chemicals and warfare with millions of civilians being executed around the globe in the proccess as the New World Order takes hold. Check out F.E.M.A Camps on you tube. A big boat with all the trimmings of the millionaires lifestyle and able to sustain itself for a considerable time would be just the kind of thing a government with a plan would come up with…

By: Sandbar

Sandbar — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:07:32 +0000

Can you say Titanic?

Or … tsunami?

“50,000 dead”

The boat will have to take into account the curvature of the earth. With a length that long, it will have to have some “flexibility” built into it.

It’s a disaster on paper … could you imagine if they actually built it?

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:01:12 +0000

It would break in the middle. No doubt on that.

By: Vinny

Vinny — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:41:11 +0000

Ive been on the Oasis currently the largest I mean when we were leaving the ports of call in the Caribbean the people in the flats were waving up at us ..but this ship is an accident waiting to happen ,its only going one way and thats down down down , too much free time , too much money waisted on a ship that will never ever withstand climatic water chnages . weather patterns etc

By: sayboard

sayboard — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:58:34 +0000

O MY GOD

By: Robe

Robe — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:04:07 +0000

This vessel simply won´t move. It could be constructed, but tied to a dock. Is not only the amount of energy needed to move this Leviathan, but also is a matter of lack of technology and enginery to construct the turbines and the energy supplier too. In the other hand, why should we construct this monster in the sea, while there are big spaces all around the world to set it up? What if a Tsunami goes trought it? 6 Billion dollars vanished.

As idea is fine, as product, useless.

By: salman

salman — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:34:36 +0000

fantastic ship ever seen

By: fisherman199

fisherman199 — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:25:00 +0000

i think its brilliant the other comments asy it cant be powerd but nuclear power could run it and the best thing is that it means good sea fishing with the use of a city i can see me catching a barracuda off the back of that thing

By: 118

118 — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:21:24 +0000

this ship will not go into any port

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:03:18 +0000

what a ship. NO AFENSE BUT NEEDS SAFTEY.

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:59:52 +0000

HI GUYS!!!!!Im 10 yrs old and my name is matthew!! now before i get started,i want to tell you about my life. im a city boy who lives in the bussiling burogh of manhattan,new york city,THE BIG APPLE.my family is rich enogh to buy first class on any thing.now as all of you new yorkers know,new york is all about rock and roll from trains to planes. my school is p.s.50 in harlem.and i live in harlem.p.s 50 is a good school. my old one was amber charter school on 106 street.NOW PEOPLE!!!!!!lisen up.amber charter scool is the worst school in history!!!!!!! why, the princable is a dumby,the teachers are mean and stupid,their no summer vacations,and most of all,you get so much homework that you cant finish it in one night!!!! and then you get detention.WHAT A RIP-OFF RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!so dont go to that school ok!!! anyways, now the sestion! thats a very nice city ship.i guess its gana need a good 99 or 100 propellers to move a ship that big lol!!! but hears som akvice,you need to add more safty inprovements then more lugzzury man! but still good for traviling oh!!!! i just forgot,if you want traviling tikets,or want to learn how traval, then viset my unklies web site, BENNYS TRAVAL.com he toled me to spread the news and i cant do it alone.so you guys have to help me now. SO TURN OF YOUR COMPUTER,GET DRESSED,GET OUT OF YOUR HOUSE!!!!GET INTO THE STREET AND YELL OUT THE WORD before i go to your houses and i whip some old bootys. so do it. and it takes 600 licks to get to the center of a blow pop lolypop ok!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:50:02 +0000

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In all my life,iv NEVER AND I MEAN NEVER seen a freaking HUGE CITY SHIP that massive before in my freaking life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But,as a lot of you have bin wondering,what if she capsizes,what if she hits a iceberg and goes down,hey! TITANIC got the same dilema. oh!and donot get me started on britannic and lusatania!!!!! They were torpidoded by those stupid terrorests!!!And WERE ARE THE LIFE BOATS!!!!!!!!!OH and i just forgot, its going to be hard or extreamely hard!for those jets to land on a giant,masseeve,huge moving runway. and i do understand we people have the technoligy to do such thing.but look!!!!this is planet earth.nothing will happen to us people. AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO THINK 2012 IS THE END OF THE WORLD.you are so stupid morons. nothing will hapen!!!!!!!!!so,as a 10 year old boy would allready say ,like me. CASE CLOSED BABE!!!!!!!!!

By: Supermaniable

Supermaniable — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:21:51 +0000

it would take up to 34 hours for a full 360 degrees turn

By: Tigran

Tigran — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:38:34 +0000

Hey mabye thell make a movie about this one.Haha but seriously lets say 250 yrs from now thell make a 14 mile long orbital spacecraft .