Sketchy billionaires, ‘top’ scientists, various crew, a nuclear reactor.
This is setting up to be an awesome remake of the Poseidon Adventure.
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I was thinking as I looked at the original picture “Just wait for Bezos to hear about this, he will design a ship with two spheres, each hanging over opposite sides of the vessel.”
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Not sure of the aerodynamics of a sphere, but can guess what’s inside the one on that ship.
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Looks like an ideal platform for experiments verifying Murphy’s Law.
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No. Just no. That would make the porn way too big.
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Yacht designer builds yacht to help fix climate change.
“I’ve got a hammer here. Anyone got some nails?”
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Behold the world’s largest trackball for digital artists!
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I don’t know. Unless the ship can do 80+ knots, then aerodynamic drag should not be much of an issue. I suspect the bulbous bow is a logical “wrap-around” solution when designing to provide additional protected cargo space. This vessel appears to be built to enclose its cargo.
I can only imagine the hijinks that would occur inside the orb during long stretches of rough seas.
And by hijinks I mean a pressure cooker of vomit.
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Whether this contraption is real or just concept art, it is a poster child for a common attitude. We encounter a huge problem. The problem is inarguably caused by Human Activity X. The usual solution is to seek a flashy technological “fix” that will suppress the symptoms enough to convince us we can go on doing Activity X. We trade credits and scrub coal and sequester carbon and yada yada yada. The flashier (and more expensive) the “fix,” the better. The only fix that is consistently ignored is to stop doing Activity X. I guess it just isn’t sexy enough. And it doesn’t make anyone money.
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It was built for aerodynamics- according to the builders, it gives a 50% reduction in wind resistance, resulting in significant fuel savings.
The problem is that the shape of the bridge windows means that the crew on the bridge aren’t always sure which way the ship is going…
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Why would the best and brightest want to use it? Isolating yourself from sources, unstable platform, on and on. But it isn’t really for them, is it. It is for those that think their net worth is a testament to being thus. It is a modern interpretation of the emperors clothes.
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That’s no boat. That’s an in-system hauler with limited atmo capabilities that’s crash-landed in the water.
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That report was a great read. Thanks!
I was disappointed that there was no mention of any kaijus, which I had assumed were involved based on that damage.
Boh bah don’t worry they are not building this (which may be disappointing) but just the regulatory burdens for a nuclear ship in private hands are going to make it impossible. State owned I could maybe imagine, but I doubt a private entity can waltz in any nuclear regulatory entiity and ask for permission to build and own/use a giant nuc-powered ship of unproved design, tralala is no big thing.
Like other posters pointed out, it’s just a form of advertising.
@CongenitalOptimist: thanks for “pressure cooker of vomit”, I’ll be using that at all times (the phrase, not the cooker).
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We already have an excuse for those. We call them academic conferences.
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Don’t namecheck Bioshock if the point of the ship isn’t for all the rich people to get on it, and then promptly kill each other! You got me all excited.
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