Crooked Brains has an interesting post on artificial islands. He mentions The Pearl-Qatar in Doha, The Palm Islands off Dubai and Durrat Al Bahrain, among others.
Given that you could raise the money and putting certain criteria in place in that it is owned by you but under the auspices of some national government which decrees that it is not to be used for commercial purposes, that the island must accommodate twenty families and that there is natural fresh water from a spring, trees, some soil, it is a warm temperate climate and there are no immediate hazards, either natural or man-related, then I have some questions.
If you could choose between five such islands on offer form the government, all different in aspect but at the same price:
1. What would you look for as natural features of the island?
2. How would you build the infrastructure and in which order?
3. How would you stock it?
4. What defence provisions would you make?
5. What would be the social structure and how would you ensure that?
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Sorry: living in a non-urban environment is my idea of a nightmare.
ReplyDelete1.What would you look for as natural features of the island?
ReplyDeleteIt must be far away from the general populace
2. How would you build it and in which order?
The bedrock would be the plateau of a mountain, built ip with small stone and sand, as well as twenty feet of fertile soil.
3. How would you stock it?
Not telling.
4. What defence provisions would you make?
The island would have an electronic perimeter capable of destroying any unwelcome intruder.
5. What would be the social structure and how would you ensure that?
Of course, I would be the Supreme Mucky-Muck, overseeing a chaotic, self-regulating system filled with scholars, all of which are beautiful, healthy people.
1) Fertile land. Lots of trees and bushes. With terrain sufficient to give each family its own privacy with a central point for transport, light aircraf and boat.
ReplyDelete2) Central post, water and power facilities, then each home.
3) Wouldn't.
4) Security system for whole island with individual systems for each area. Panic rooms. Trained killer budgies.
5) Wouldn't be one.
1. Must have sunshine and shade.
ReplyDelete2. Who cares, it will be ready an waiting for me ;-)
3. By spy plane
4. I don't need to, it is my own personal Island. No-one is interested in me ;-)
5. Me and invited friends only. My secret war plane would keep others at bay ;-)
Thanks for those - it was a bit of an ask.
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