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- OffensivePrick, on 02/19/2009, -2/+35Why would you want to essentially take a cruise that has no stops in port and doesn't move? Now, if these are in the right waters, turning of a few of them into casino hotels might make some sense (and a potentially great setting for part of a future Bond movie)...
- sladek, on 02/19/2009, -0/+23I vote that the Pirate Bay should buy them
- KimmyGibbler, on 02/19/2009, -0/+20This would be a great way to run a legal brothel. You could place it right outside the territorial waters of the US. It'll be much easier to get people to come that way than if you have a regular ol' hotel in the middle of the ocean.
- Jeepinator, on 02/19/2009, -0/+15I never realized there were so many oil rigs out there. 4,000 is a large number.
- googooly, on 02/19/2009, -0/+15Why do you want to blow it up ?
- spar13, on 02/19/2009, -0/+15a hotel on international waters which have no laws!
- ousthouse, on 02/19/2009, -0/+14That's a silly question.
- ccfccp, on 02/19/2009, -1/+15Turn them in to big green houses and grow weed! They would make a fortune.
- thundercloud39, on 02/19/2009, -1/+12Sounds like a great place to get drilled.
- jlungu, on 02/19/2009, -0/+11Great idea ... until that cat 5 hurricane or "rogue wave" comes along ...
- kraftj, on 02/19/2009, -0/+10I'll answer your question with another question: Why *wouldn't* you want to blow it up?
- GiJoeBob, on 02/19/2009, -0/+6That's the television.
- WhoDoneIt, on 02/19/2009, -0/+6And the variety of crabs they could offer would be tremendous!
- yourAVERAGEjoe1, on 02/19/2009, -1/+6Drilling for oil doesn't dirty water.
- offrdbandit, on 02/19/2009, -0/+5I doubt the guests are going to like it when sport fishing boats start circling the rig at about 5:00am every summer.
Another thing this article dismisses is the location of many (probably most) of these rigs - they are very close to shore. Many are off the coast of Louisiana and similar delta areas (there are more than you would think in less than 20 feet of water). While beautiful, these areas aren't tropical paradises. Perhaps living on an open-ocean rig would be interesting, but that kind of isolation has problems.
Also, most rigs aren't nearly this large. Many aren't large enough to be manned (some are too small to land a helicopter on), so the 4000 number is most likely far higher than the number that could reasonably be inhabited. - diggduggjoe, on 02/19/2009, -0/+4They will need lots of protection, too. They would make good targets for pirates.
- inactive, on 02/19/2009, -0/+4Or the helicopter, which lands 5 feet from your bedroom window, gets thrown by the sea wind...
- rozlovesben, on 02/19/2009, -3/+7huh, do you think this was a last resort? get it? resort?!?
- zerohelix, on 02/19/2009, -1/+5i really hope one of these rigs don't turn into an international brothel with underage "entertainers"
- percussionking, on 02/19/2009, -0/+4More debris after hurricanes.
- utzig, on 02/19/2009, -0/+4I was thinking Fhloston Paradise, myself. Wonder if Ruby Rod will play there?
- Asvetic, on 02/19/2009, -1/+5Seriously? At least if you're on a boat, you can go somewhere. This is all the ***** parts of a cruise, without the cruise.
- sponeil, on 02/19/2009, -0/+3You forgot to mention gambling, and the fact that brothels are already legal in some states. I'm certain it would be cheaper to simply go to Vegas. The main lure for this is that it's on the water.
- KimmyGibbler, on 02/19/2009, -0/+3Brothels are only legal in Nevada, but not in Vegas. It might be cheaper/easier for you to go to Vegas, but here in the Northeast, it would be easier to hop on a boat and go out to sea
- Dasliberdan, on 02/19/2009, -1/+4VIDEO SNL: The Lonely Island - I'm On An Oil Rig (ft. T-Pain)
- pfhayter, on 02/19/2009, -0/+3Dugg for 007 on the TV
- Zaxcomp, on 02/19/2009, -0/+3That last picture looks like some nightmare with the difference between the people and the CG. Terrifying.
- visiblepulse, on 02/19/2009, -0/+3it would give you an excellent view of a hurricane coming through.
- mysn239, on 02/19/2009, -0/+3This article is malarkey
- gmurray, on 02/19/2009, -0/+3Such a high concentration of wealth sounds like the perfect target for pirating.
- rusty0101, on 02/20/2009, -0/+3From the looks of what they proposed, everything gets pre-fabed into container sized units that get taken out to the platform, and crane lifted into place.
From a security perspective, I would much rather the platform _not_ have a dock, but I would probably contemplate mounting water cannon to the lower surface of the bottom deck anyway. Got to clean the decks off after a storm... - Enkairi, on 02/19/2009, -0/+3One of the comments on the website, said turn them into prisons.
- defektiv, on 02/19/2009, -0/+3Waterworld, here we come.
- failtrain, on 02/19/2009, -1/+4I don't. Personally I would take out anything toxic, and then just dismantle and sink the thing to give the fishies a playground to breed/live in. A bit like they did with those old stripped out carriage trains a while back.
- Rapter09, on 02/19/2009, -0/+2I'm more astonished at the fact that there's 4000 abandoned oil rigs in the Gulf.
Secondly, what happens to all those pretty, expensive boats during a major storm or something? Maybe they didn't include all the nitty gritty details in the renderings\photoshopping, but I don't see a breakwater, or any sort of housing for the ships anywhere near that dock so wouldn't any berthed ship be completely at the mercy of the sea? - XZanatos, on 02/20/2009, -0/+2"until the world comes to its senses"
Yeah, good luck with that. My bet is on the world being run into the ground, wholesale environmental destruction, and mass warfare for dwindling resources. They could be good lifeboats though. - beesaretasty, on 02/19/2009, -0/+2And how much would it cost to get all the materials to and from the rigs for the reconstruction to transform them into these hotels?
- ccb621, on 02/19/2009, -0/+2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU
- glasnostic, on 02/19/2009, -0/+2sounds like a great weekending fishing trip
- Remelox, on 02/19/2009, -0/+2Better as homes for rich people than hotels. Small communities that share common interests. Depending on distance from shore they could be communities of writers, scientists or other intellectuals, actors, musicians, computer programmer slave camps, telemarketer farms, religious compounds, drug producer crops, tax dodgers, harems, or furry communities.
- inactive, on 02/19/2009, -0/+2Here's a better idea: fire 'em up and start drilling.
- diggkris, on 02/19/2009, -2/+4Epic, never really thought about it until i saw this but thats a damn good idea! Props.
- zerohelix, on 02/19/2009, -0/+2who wouldn't want to see an oil rig explode? Seriously...someone could make a business out of it
- rusty0101, on 02/20/2009, -0/+2Pray for crop failure on the telemarketer farms...
- mysn239, on 02/19/2009, -0/+2You just gave me a boner
- diggduggjoe, on 02/19/2009, -0/+2May be we could make libertarian communities on them to secure liberty until the world comes to its senses. Without any risk of collateral damage, they would likely take you out pretty fast, though.
- nbcaffeine, on 02/19/2009, -0/+2I'm on an oil rig *****, don't you EVER FORGET!
- abnormalone, on 02/20/2009, -0/+1thats a very cool idea... might work.. nice to reuse instead of throw away
- inactive, on 02/20/2009, -0/+1If 4000 of them are still there in the water after all of these hurricanes and tidal waves etc then they are obviously going to stay there a bit longer and can be used for all sorts of things; like marine research labs, hotels, brothels, pot dens, and discordian annual conferences. Hell, even Howard the dolphin could join in.
- s4g4n, on 02/19/2009, -0/+1dugg for common sense
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