Talk:Freedom Ship

FYI www.freedomship.com is offline as of August 5 2005. Last Google cache was July 26. Last update was February 10 2005 indicating problems obtaining reliable financing.

It's online right now... - John C PI 18:50, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is this really legitimate?

I've seen the HowStuff Works article, i've seen the freedom ship website, and the webhacks who are out to disprove it. My question is, does this proposal hold enough water (pun intended) to merit a wikiarticle? If i were tonight to propose the creation of a gerbil-powered city near easter island as soon as i could obtain reliable funding, could i then have an article made about me?

Presumably, if it made as much news as this project has, then yes, I see no reason why there couldn't be a justifiable entry - for those curious and seeking more information on the Easter Island GerbilCity Project. Tenmiles 04:26, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cost estimate

This needs a citation. If it comes only from FSI it should be removed as marketing hype; if it is based on existing ships, it's likely invalid as it's pretty clear conventional design techniques won't work for a vessel this size. Sources, please. Just zis Guy you know? 18:51, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unconventional Design

The Freedom ship will not have a keel as a standard ship would have. Rather it will be more like a floating 'barge', in that the platform that the 'ship' is built on is simply an array of water-tight cells; albeit huge ones, each of which will contain its own Azipod propulsion system. These cells will be attached to one another to create one enormous inflexible 'raft'.

The concept of the ship being structurally able to withstand ocean swells is based on the idea of a 'floating beam'. The ship is so vast that it will actually span ocean swells the way a wooden plank might float on the ripples of a lake. Besides that, the design will follow basic design principles that stipulate that a beam must be a certain thickness for it's proposed length.

And for all of that we need a citation from a reliable source. Just zis Guy you know? 06:53, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

On Discovery

I am watching a show on Discovery about Freedom Ship right now, it is a re-run from 2002. But from this article I get the idea the project is pretty much dead. If anyone can bring this story into 2007 it would be appreciated.