If they name the first one "Rapture", I'm buying more guns.

[bzarcher]

Silicon Valley Millionaires working on offshore sea habitats.

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[alathaniel.livejournal.com]

Let them have their sea-cities. My sights remain firmly upon rule of the moon. And then possible domination of earthly governments via mass driver.

[las.livejournal.com]

Yeah, let's build a Libertopia that's going to go down with the first brisk typhoon! Heaven forbid they should, yanno, use that money to work out affordable solar power, or buy medicines for sick kids, or rebuild New Orleans, or anything like that.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

If they gave their vast fortunes to good causes, they wouldn't be supervillians, would they?

[las.livejournal.com]

But they could rebuild New Orleans and RULE IT WITH IRON FISTS!

Or medicate sick kids and RECRUIT THEM FOR THEIR ARMY!

Or work out affordable solar power AND POWER THEIR ROBOT ARMIES AFFORDABLY!

See, all that's way cooler than setting up some Pacific fortress that's just going to be all WE CAN HAZ FLOODING? during hurricane season.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

HMmmmmm. True.

[yetanotherbob.livejournal.com]

The problem is that all the other ones are being done. That leaves the ocean bases instead. From the looks of it, they're going to build them off the west coast, which moots the flooding twice over.

• Hurricanes are an east-coast thing. The winds are all wrong for that to happen to the west coast. Typhoons hit Asia instead.
• They float along the surface, so even if there's a sudden rise in sea level, they're unaffected.

Besides, they're Libertarian. Which means, 'So conservative they have more in common with hippies than Republicans, like legalizing drugs and building communes.' On the plus side, they're strong defenders of the second amendment, which will come in handy when you're out of Eve and a Big Daddy is coming after you.

[las.livejournal.com]

Hurricanes have hit Baja and San Diego before. Who knows what wacky weather might ensue if global warming really gets going?

[flying-landon.livejournal.com]

And then they piss off the one guy who builds torpedoes as a hobby.

[alathaniel.livejournal.com]

You called?

[flaggerx.livejournal.com]

I'd like to point out that evading the taxes of a country that has a Navy might not be a good idea. Particularly if they want to do business in said country.

Self Uber alles.