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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Maybe Someday?

Shin,
 I don't really want to live in the deep dark depths either.  What I had in mind was a bit shallower, say in the neighborhood of about 50 to 60 feet.  Deep enough but not too deep if a diver wanted to lock out and go cruise around on the reef.  Perhaps to go check on aquacultural experiments with out having to worry too much about going into decompression.  Maybe located a couple miles off shore in some tropical locale.  What I had envisioned would be a habitat that had a solid tube leading to the surface, sort of like one of those onion shaped municipal water towers turned upside down.  Of course it would have plenty of large acrylic windows and at the end of the tube, on the surface, there would be a surface support platform.  Surface shuttles(boats) could be moored in lifts with maybe even a helipad on top for evacuation purposes.  It would be close enough to shore that commutes to town wouldn't be a big deal as long as there was some type of harbor near by.  From a life style stand point it wouldn't be that much different than if you lived out of town in the country.  Go to town by boat, stock up on whatever and then go back home.  If you need more room the "onions" could be linked to one another to form a colony.  Living in space would be fun but you couldn't just run to McDonalds or the local dive shop whenever you needed something.
 
Ty       
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From: Mad Pirate Shin
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Maybe Someday?





From: "Ty Alley"
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Maybe Someday?
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 01:28:56 -0500
With that said, I jump into my next question. Why isn't more effort by governments or whomever, spent researching the possibilities of mans existence in the sea. Is it considered that Cousteau proved and discovered everything there was to prove and discover with the Conshelf project? Sort of a "been there, done that" attitude. It would seem more logical that if "we" were to set off colonizing something other than earth, that the next step would be the sea and not some distant planet.
Ty
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As far as the next step in colonization, the sea would be much easier to colonize than another planet. Not only is it easier to get to, but you would have more resources readily available with which to make buildings, make air, and make food/money. However, I've not heard of serious colonization plans since I first heard of the Artemis Project(). The only reason to colonize is if money can be made, new sciences can be learned, or if it would just be really neat-o to live there. Colonizing outerspace sure has that charm, and boy wouldn't it be great to live on a space station? But who wants to live on the bottom of a muddy ocean? The fact is, I don't WANT to live in the deep dark depths of the ocean, and the only way you'd get me to stay is a LOT of money.

  Now there may be money making opportunities at depth that I don't know about, but any opportunities dealing with food or the living resources of the sea deal in relatively shallow depths. These depths can be handled with SCUBA or PSubs for far less than the cost of a habitat(and you get to live in town too).

  I could enjoy living underwater if I could read the newspaper at 2,000 feet down.  But if you want to colonize the ocean, I think yer best bet is to build a houseboat, not an underwater habitat.

 

             Shin


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