On board the world's first 'gigayacht':

[Mugu]

The £100m luxury yacht with its own garden, pool and tennis court

Life can have its little irritations when you're cruising around the world on your £100million superyacht.

For example, the endless vista of clear blue sea fails to provide much greenery to ease the eye - apart from the odd tropical island.

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The 325ft-long yacht is to feature a growing area with shrubbery and flower beds, kept healthy by an irrigation system.


It will also have a tennis court, pool and five accommodation decks including a main saloon, dining room, library, cinema, spa and fitness area.


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[chknltl]

1. No golf course????!!!

I'll pass thank you....probobly doesn't even have any Grey Poupon either.

[XOKCowboy]

2. 187500 gallons of fuel.. Now that's a green machine

Only holds 2 45' boats and 6 jetskis? Piffle.

[ellisonz]

12. I know.

Helicopters, hello?!?!?!?

[warren pease]

3. And me without a torpedo... n/t

[DainBramaged]

4. Could have been a great cruiser for hunting whalers and pirates

But no, another boat for displaying the excesses of the wealthy.:crazy:

[physioex]

5. Actually...

I would deeply be concerned about pirates on such a vessel. I was watching a television program on Discovery and modern day piracy is a huge problem and typically the criminals are never caught. And many times the person on the ship ends up dead. Would I feel safe traveling anywhere in a ship like this? Probably not.

[DainBramaged]

6. They could put a coule of these on it and be safe

20MM Gatling Gun with ammo drum. NOTHING would try to board them. And the DOD would probably gladly sell them the cannons as "surplus".

[RichardRay]

7. Where's the reactor?

Fuel oil? Fuel oil? WTF?!?!

With a nice little nuclear power plant it wouldn't have to make port for YEARS!

I wonder how sea kindly that thing's gonna be? It may take lines from a tanker, but it's way too small to just shoulder it's way through like a tanker does. What's gonna happen to the topside greenery when there's blue water comin over the bow?

[Posteritatis]

8. On a less snarky level

I wonder if something like that could wind up being a proof-of-concept, or a rough version of same, of a floating farm or something along those lines. Heaven knows people are building enough extra land on the edges of cities for things like airports or dumps or prisons; it couldn't hurt to see people inspired for more benign additions. Soil would be an issue, obviously, but in some environments square footage would be even more of one. Tethering a big platform here and there for those kinds of purposes could be one way to handle those sorts of things, though I don't know much about the feasibility.

Don't mind me; I'm in the sort of mood where I'm trying to figure out how to get some good out of a bunch of things that would otherwise simply piss me off. (That, and I was reading about vertical farming earlier.)

[physioex]

9. That form of construction would be too expensive....

I saw a program on televsion where a billionaire was trying to develop a floating city. It couldnt be a conventional ship design. So they would have to stack square blocks as the floating platform and build on top.

[Posteritatis]

14. A city would have all sorts of additional constraints too

Though I wasn't thinking a ship at that point as much as just some kinda floaty-growy thing. Something with those kinds of lines that was also productive cropland would be awesome (I'm picturing this giant agroship wandering the world doing famine relief or something similar), but it'd obviously be impractical. I'm pondering more in terms of floating greenhouses or, if large enough, smallish fields, regardless of their mobility.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Well, when my town gets swallowed up by rising sea levels, ima gonna take that yacht over

[seasat]

17. That was my first thought. It'd be great in Water World. n/t

[DFW]

10. I was gonna order three of them

One for me and one for each of my two daughters, but they couldn't have
them all ready in time for Christmas, so I told them to forget the whole
thing and ordered three bicycles instead.........

[Indenturedebtor]

11. Well I was going to do something different

I was going to take the money that I spent on my yacht and build a few schools in poverty stricken areas, oh and also donate some of it to research on the problems that are threatening to destroy our planet like global warming.

But then I figured Nah. I'll just buy a gas guzzling really big boat instead. I'm a worthless sack of shit like that. Sue me. Oh wait you have no money to sue me. How sad for you.

Fuck you world! I got mine!!!!!!!!!

[DFW]

13. Even if I did have the money to sue

I'd probably blow it on something worthless like donating it to cancer research
or Greenpeace, or something useless like that.

What the hell, I get seasick anyway.........

[jmowreader]

16. I get the strange feeling Shrub would REALLY like to have one

Think back to that great classic piece of cinema, "Death Race 2000." Skip over the part about running over innocent bystanders to win the race, and look at Mr. President: a tinhorn dictator who rules with an iron hand from palaces located outside the United States--which turned out to be a wise precaution, because on the one day of the year Mr. President decided to show his ugly face in the US, the race winner ran him over.

In the real world, this kind of behavior isn't unheard of--witness Saddam Hussein, who slept in a different bed every night out of fear he wouldn't wake up the next morning.

Enter this yacht. Mount three or four satcom dishes on her, and you've got everything you need to run any country you want into the ground, so long as you've got a loyal secret police force.