The UK built forts out at sea during WWII, and, surprisingly, they're still there. One had been torn down, but the rest remain as ephemeral items of WWII: hastily created for a single purpose, then abandoned at the end of their usefulness. I wonder at the feasibility of something similar today: aircraft-carrier sized floating buildings that can set legs down wherever they're needed, assembling numerous ships into a single unit: for war, a mobile military base, large enough to support bomber flights and tank deployment...for peace, a mobile city for hurricane/tsunami survivors, complete with living space, hospitals, construction crews & equipment.
#
No comments at this time.
|