A Three-Hour Tour
Aug. 16th, 2011 04:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomEvery now and again, I mention my ultimate Lottery dream: buying an island somewhere, building up some infrastructure, and moving my family and a whole bunch -- three to five hundred -- of my friends there with me. Just getting us the hell away from everything.
It would never work, of course. There are too many technical problems, potential legal difficulties, and supply problems to overcome. Not to mention the existence of pirates, various naval forces with weapons tests, and the occasional tsunami.
Besides, Cthulhu's alarm clock might be about to go off.
This does not mean that I'm the only person to think like this. And now some ultra-rich doof is trying it. They're supposed to be little libertarian petri dishes, where a man can truly be free.
Good luck with that.
I figure that, in a few years, these little Time-Share 2020s will have been picked clean and abandoned, and maybe then we can go out there and rehab 'em.
Meantime, I'm saving up toward a missile silo.
What's your ultimate personal fortress? How detached from civilization do you wish to be? In my case, not much at all, thank you -- but I do want a nice, tornado-and-nuke-proof haven. (Seanan, don't you even think about all the ways you could mess me up with virii. I don't get enough sleep as it is.)
It would never work, of course. There are too many technical problems, potential legal difficulties, and supply problems to overcome. Not to mention the existence of pirates, various naval forces with weapons tests, and the occasional tsunami.
Besides, Cthulhu's alarm clock might be about to go off.
This does not mean that I'm the only person to think like this. And now some ultra-rich doof is trying it. They're supposed to be little libertarian petri dishes, where a man can truly be free.
Good luck with that.
I figure that, in a few years, these little Time-Share 2020s will have been picked clean and abandoned, and maybe then we can go out there and rehab 'em.
Meantime, I'm saving up toward a missile silo.
What's your ultimate personal fortress? How detached from civilization do you wish to be? In my case, not much at all, thank you -- but I do want a nice, tornado-and-nuke-proof haven. (Seanan, don't you even think about all the ways you could mess me up with virii. I don't get enough sleep as it is.)
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Date: 2011-08-17 12:15 pm (UTC)Obviously the ideal fortress depends on the circumstances. In a zombie apocalypse, the local CostCo or BJ's would be my personal fortress. After a comic-book origin, the bottom of the ocean or the Mon, depending on the superpowers. After a lottery win - a house with plenty of stoneface and lots of privacy landscaping would do.
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Date: 2011-08-17 05:59 pm (UTC)While I'm fairly sure you meant the MOON, "The Mon" is the local nickname for the Monongahela river here in Morgantown, and I just imagined a fortress underneath it, surrounded by the legendary mutant fish of Decker's Creek. ... Which might make for an interesting comic...
The Mon
Date: 2011-08-17 07:01 pm (UTC)