Subject: Re: [smof-politics] Thought for solving two housing crises, but is the cost too high?
From: "Bob Schroeck" (rms@ourtown.fen)
Reply-To: smof-politics@smofcon.fen
Date: 2014/2/11 18:55
To: undisclosed-recipients
Well. I sit down to a little after-dinner thread-browsing, and what do I find but the next "cool idea" that's likely to upset someone in Washington.
Mind you, I'm all for that.
> I'm sure you know where I'm going with this... but should we?
Hell yes. Provided, of course, everyone on all sides agrees to do it.
> the folks at the Island, Hephaestus, and Grover's Corners have experience lifting
> acres of land into space.
While I can't speak for all of us until we have a town meeting on the matter, I'd certainly be willing to advise on the project. Dunno how well our methods will work in a predominantly Catholic area, but it can't hurt to at least pass them on.
> Thing is, I'm reasonably sure that the Irish would like to retain the *land* the
> houses are on. Moving everything including the ground might get some people
> a little upset, know what I mean?
Well, yes, but we don't *have* to leave a hole behind, you know. We (fen in general) certainly have -- or can kludge up quickly -- the carry capacity to move enough earth to fill in the holes. And if we can'f find someone on Earth willing to sell us that much topsoil, why not trade moondirt for earthdirt? We know the stuff's sterile, so we won't be importing disease (or the wave), and if there were buildings on the land it wasn't being used for farming, so its initial infertility won't be a problem. (And even that can be easily solved either by us or the Irish.)
> it's not like we absolutely have to do this in the fennish manner.
Well, I suppose if you want to suck all the *fun* out of it...
-- Bob Schroeck, Citizen-at-large and part-time captain,
Grover's Corners, Inc., A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Bavarian Illuminati
The Bavarian Illuminati: The Original *Family-Owned* Conspiracy
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
From: "Bob Schroeck" (rms@ourtown.fen)
Reply-To: smof-politics@smofcon.fen
Date: 2014/2/11 18:55
To: undisclosed-recipients
Well. I sit down to a little after-dinner thread-browsing, and what do I find but the next "cool idea" that's likely to upset someone in Washington.
Mind you, I'm all for that.
> I'm sure you know where I'm going with this... but should we?
Hell yes. Provided, of course, everyone on all sides agrees to do it.
> the folks at the Island, Hephaestus, and Grover's Corners have experience lifting
> acres of land into space.
While I can't speak for all of us until we have a town meeting on the matter, I'd certainly be willing to advise on the project. Dunno how well our methods will work in a predominantly Catholic area, but it can't hurt to at least pass them on.
> Thing is, I'm reasonably sure that the Irish would like to retain the *land* the
> houses are on. Moving everything including the ground might get some people
> a little upset, know what I mean?
Well, yes, but we don't *have* to leave a hole behind, you know. We (fen in general) certainly have -- or can kludge up quickly -- the carry capacity to move enough earth to fill in the holes. And if we can'f find someone on Earth willing to sell us that much topsoil, why not trade moondirt for earthdirt? We know the stuff's sterile, so we won't be importing disease (or the wave), and if there were buildings on the land it wasn't being used for farming, so its initial infertility won't be a problem. (And even that can be easily solved either by us or the Irish.)
> it's not like we absolutely have to do this in the fennish manner.
Well, I suppose if you want to suck all the *fun* out of it...
-- Bob Schroeck, Citizen-at-large and part-time captain,
Grover's Corners, Inc., A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Bavarian Illuminati
The Bavarian Illuminati: The Original *Family-Owned* Conspiracy
Quote:(OOC: The Irish housing glut is real - apparently, their housing problems make the subprime mortgage bubble look like a minor hiccup. They have too many hotels, too.)(OOC: I am so tempted to make a Monopoly joke here...)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.