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travel the south pacific in style :D and overwhelming military domination!

ahoy thar matey :D ARGH!

Oh yeah, money... My first reaction is we could be pirates, but on second thought we should take the suggestions Cory had for Disney and use them as a business model "Be like Walt: rebuild Imagineering as an interdisciplinary skunk-works that creates brand-new, amazing, one-off stuff that builds your brand." The ship will be retro-fitted into a cross between burning man and a nomadic epcot of the bitchun society.
Also ala Mark we could tiki out the whole rig and be big nerd kahunas and cartoon Gaugins.

I can kick in my share for the boat, but I don't think I can afford to put gas in the tank.

Edited by author 05-29-2003 12:37 AM
aufnord: has any one read "snow crash" by neal stevenson ?

Surely Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net is more relevant.

Perfect. Burning Man is gonna need place to go when they get kicked out of Black Rock.

*adjusts eyepatch*

I could see this being purchased by a Hollywood studio and used for a specific production, or a number of productions. Fox is probably the best film studio candidate to buy this, since they have well-equipped studio facilities throughout the world that are situated near shipping ports (in Mexico and Australia).

$4.5 mil what a steal! We could rent it out to Hollywood producers as a movie prop and maybe make enough $ to take her for a spin. OR if we could get some fighter jets we'd have our own mobil theme park. "Top Gun"- amenities include: Top Gun instruction, fly a real military jet, cramped rooms, meals.... plus stop by our gift shop and Pirate Bar! (just for kicks)...Also available for theme weddings, events, and raves.

I think the GOP should buy the carrier and fix it up in manner suitable for a presidential campaign. Bush can campaign from it in 2004. (It's got to be secure, right?, it's a fucking aircraft carrier.)

After the campaign, a sleep over on the Vengeance will become a GOP Team Leader (the GOP's brillant personalized spaming scam) benefit. Kind of like the Lincoln bedroom but more like a giant locker room that sleeps 1500. If you are a committed Team Leader, you might get a sleep over _and_ a deck landing with a National Guard pilot.

It's cheaper and more durable than an inauguration. You can operate it in international waters to avoid taxes and the EPA. And given the gear it comes with, it's probably an off the shelf datahaven.

Kenny - where will you find 13,000 parrots?

I've got a better idea; we all chip in, get a satellite downlink, and become a massive floating hosting service! Beholden to no one! Like Sealand, only able to move to whatever jurisdiction has the weakest group of laws at the time. And stage outdoor lan parties - you can put a lot of seasick geeks on that flight deck.

Plus, we could - as already pointed out - walk around going "Arrrr!" without feeling goofy. I mean, we'd be on a ship; it would be appropriate.

Seriously, this thing sounds doably doable, I'm in for 346 U.S. Bucks if that sets me offa this braindead ATT broadband or Comcast or whatever the hell it will be in the next few months.

So if 13,000 regulars all chipped in, how many of them could be on the aircraft carrier before the ship would (a) get rather crowded, and (b) sink?

Ahoy - Just time-share it matey, time-share.

So if 13,000 regulars all chipped in, how many of them could be on the aircraft carrier before the ship would (a) get rather crowded

Well, the page says the normal compliment is 1300. So 10% for normal crew load. Figure you could easily go up to 2 or 3 times that for a few hours party.

(b) sink? Assuming 10 people are 1 ton, 13000 people are 1300 tons. Not a problem under normal load.