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Floating city projects seem to conceptualize themselves as "buildings, but on water". Seems ineffective to me.

An armada of ships strikes me as the cheaper and far more practical approach.

Indeed - I always liked Neal Stephenson’s concept for “The Raft” in Snow Crash - take a bunch of vessels due for the breaker’s yard, lash em together, job done.

Snowcrash describes pretty well how a set of boats/ships would work for creating an independent society.

Of course that society existed only to break up and emigrate, it was hell on Earth, it requires an aircraft carrier as the center, and it was planned and executed by a mad billionaire with ambitions of world domination.

While President Trump may not have billions, he does have multiple aircraft carriers at his disposal and would love a place to put all the immigrants. I would suggest keeping the book away from Fox News or they may give him the idea.

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