[geeks] Really big bathtub toy

[Phil Stracchino]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 12:06:45AM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Sat, 31 Jan 2004 @ 10:17 +0000, Mike Meredith said:
> > On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:45:11 -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > > http://b54.net/@k3
> > > 
> > > Anyone else seen this?  Damn, think of the *possibilities*.  Sovereign
> > > nation, mobile data haven, repository for international development
> > > projects  ....
> > 
> > Geek retirement home.
> > 
> > I'm not sure the world's ready for a mobile nation, but it seems like it
> > could be quite an exciting occupation :-
> 
> In one of William Gibson's books, there was a floating nation
> surrounding an old carrier I believe.

Was that Gibson, or are you thinking of Neil Stephenson?  There was a
carrier involved in Snow Crash, and a drifting marine nation in The
Diamond Age.


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