Post by Burnt Coffee on Nov 29, 2006 7:52:37 GMT -5
In this post on the should BM move to Mexico thread on ePlaya, K-Mom writes
How about buried deep inside a long period comet? We'd have to pack a little extra food, and I'd definitely recommend bringing long underwear because of the temperatures we'd be encountering when we passed beyond the orbit of Sedna, but the BLM would definitely be off our backs.
In case anybody doesn't get that K-Mom is probably kidding, two words on what would be a fun idea, if only it could work - ocean swells. Fragile interconnections would be torn apart fairly quickly, and the boats, being close together, would tend to get slammed together, sending the participants down to the bottom of an abyssal deep, two miles of cold, black water closing overhead. Even on one of the Great Lakes, a storm would spell major trouble. On the bright side, it would only be five hundred feet of cold, black water closing overhead? Still not too inviting a thought, maybe.
On the other hand, what if one had a broad, shallow lake? I wonder, how high do storm surges get in the Great Salt Lake? Yes, yes, they got fairly high in that even shallower lake in Louisiana, but those surges come in from a much deeper ocean and are powered by what's building up there. Such a location would have the advantage of presenting no fear of brushfire formation, and even if the Great Salt Lake is too deep for such purposes, maybe there's a broad salt lake out there that's even shallower.
Any thoughts? Leads on where we can get water wings?
How about just a large floating raft of interconnected boats and barges, like in Neal Stephenson's 'Snow Crash'? BurningMan could just sail the oceans year round,
How about buried deep inside a long period comet? We'd have to pack a little extra food, and I'd definitely recommend bringing long underwear because of the temperatures we'd be encountering when we passed beyond the orbit of Sedna, but the BLM would definitely be off our backs.
In case anybody doesn't get that K-Mom is probably kidding, two words on what would be a fun idea, if only it could work - ocean swells. Fragile interconnections would be torn apart fairly quickly, and the boats, being close together, would tend to get slammed together, sending the participants down to the bottom of an abyssal deep, two miles of cold, black water closing overhead. Even on one of the Great Lakes, a storm would spell major trouble. On the bright side, it would only be five hundred feet of cold, black water closing overhead? Still not too inviting a thought, maybe.
On the other hand, what if one had a broad, shallow lake? I wonder, how high do storm surges get in the Great Salt Lake? Yes, yes, they got fairly high in that even shallower lake in Louisiana, but those surges come in from a much deeper ocean and are powered by what's building up there. Such a location would have the advantage of presenting no fear of brushfire formation, and even if the Great Salt Lake is too deep for such purposes, maybe there's a broad salt lake out there that's even shallower.
Any thoughts? Leads on where we can get water wings?
