Mar 12 2008Freedom Ship: For When The World Floods
When the world floods only a few people will survive. I will be one of them, because I'm blasting off in a rocket ship instead of jumping onto a glorified cruise ship. But whatever. The Freedom Ship, which is a floating city, has existed as a concept for some time. But now the company (Freedom Ship International) is moving forward with construction and expects the monster to be completed in three years. Which means it may go into service before the apocalypse. It will have the following amenities:
18,000 living units, with prices in the range of $180,000 to $2.5 million, including a small number of premium suites currently priced up to $44 million.
* 3,000 commercial units in a similar price range
* 2,400 time-share units
* 10,000 hotel units
* A World Class Casino
* More than 100 acres of outdoor Park, Recreation, Exercise and Community space
Wow, BO-RING. Oh you want to hear what my rocket ship will have do you? Well I'm glad you asked. The Geekologie Writer's Intergalactic Freedom Rocketship Of Safety will contain the following amenities:
*Me
*You
*A hot tub
*Some champagne
*Bathing suits optional
*Come over whenever
*Wink*
Do you see what I did there? I pretended to have a rocketship to lure beautiful women over to my house for some fun in the hot tub. *ding-dong* Oh, that's the doorbell -- looks like I've got my first taker -- back in sec. Damnit, that was a dude. Yeah, and he was sans swim trunks. Didn't I say no dudes? Shit, I must have forgotten.
UPDATE: NO DUDES!
One more conceptual pic from above after the jump off.
Reader Comments
1. none - March 12, 2008 6:23 PM
this is ANCIENT!!! dude, this is SERIOUSLY at least a year old. if not two!
this site has been going downhill BADLY lately...
geekologie should be called "boringOUTDATEDologie.."
2. none - March 12, 2008 6:26 PM
going on their site, it's registered from 2005..
that's 3 yrs!!
christ you're getting pathetic... 3 year old news isn't new....
3. Jason - March 12, 2008 6:27 PM
soooo, what if it came into like...a huge storm with massive waves?
4. pirhan - March 12, 2008 7:06 PM
I think building this would cause the catrastophydue to the excessive carbon dioxide made during the construction.
5. Turd Ferguson - March 12, 2008 7:12 PM
@ #1/2:
Fuck. Leave the poor bastard alone. I hadn't heard about it until now, so who gives a damn if it is three years old? Just because you knew about it (possibly three years ago) does not mean EVERYONE ELSE does. Stupid fucker(s).
6. chino - March 12, 2008 7:25 PM
Listen "none," if you want breaking news you've come to the wrong place. No one said Geekologie was current shit. However, if you want interesting (albeit old) news with witty and super funny writing--you've also come to the wrong place. *laughs* Oh sniz-zap Geekologie writer, you just got served!
7. . - March 12, 2008 7:40 PM
@ #1/2: God your a nerd. "Waaah I already read this because I spend my life reading every blog and I know everything and anything you tell me is already old and boring waaahh"
8. Enrico Palatzo - March 12, 2008 8:18 PM
Old shit is funny shit. Thanks for the post, first time i heard of this.
9. David - March 12, 2008 8:26 PM
A casino? wtf? The world is ended, there's only a few survivors left.
LET'S GO GAMBLING! WOOO!
10. guate6 - March 12, 2008 10:05 PM
#1 & 2: Damn, what the hell crawled up your ass and died so that you could talk so much shit? I too have never heard of this until now. I agree with 5 & 7, and you've been officially disliked to the point where no one wants you here.
So pretty much all the rich and wealthy people will get to survive in this massive boat. Hmm...sounds familiar: massive boat, rich people, but what was there that I'm missing? Oh that's right, an iceberg. Well, let's hope global warming (as #4 mentioned) won't cause an ice age, otherwise, this puppy will not live for much longer.
Casino eh? I guess they know this thing won't work, so they'll try to keep others gambling so that they can be distracted while everything else around them falls to ruin.
I guess it's not too late to start building an ark out of wood and the charge for admission is that you have to contribute at least 10 hours of work into the ark.
11. Angel - March 12, 2008 10:47 PM
i can see it now. HURRICANE KILLS MILLIONS IN GIGANTIC BOAT...either that or the murder rates on this thing would be astronomical
12. Rick Dubya - March 12, 2008 11:23 PM
I wonder if it will have it's own F1 Grand Prix?
13. Dr. House - March 12, 2008 11:39 PM
A) heard about this more than 4 years ago.
B) I like the writers' stupid humor because i too have the same humor.
C) cut him some slack...not his fault we live in a pathetic world where nothing new ever happens.
and
D) i'm so waiting for the apocalypse...bring it bitch!!!
14. Lindsay - March 13, 2008 4:29 AM
Oh Noooos! The world is ending I MUST GAMBLE
15. laz - March 13, 2008 7:04 AM
first time i have seen this. it's like a big noah's ark...for rich people. i didn't bother going to the site - but is freedom ship international an american company? so it will be populated by americans? shit - osama will have a great floating target to take out all the last remaining americans...
16. Sanjuro - March 13, 2008 8:16 AM
This isn't the first time I've seen this, but it's certainly the first time I've heard it "reported" on in this manner. Old or not, I come here for the personality and to have a laugh.
17. whistle - March 13, 2008 8:54 AM
When I originally heard about this, it wasn't being sold as a safety net for the coming apocalypse - it was simply a luxury for rich people to live while traveling around the 4 corners of the globe.
Unless the sales pitch has changed, I don't think this was created to save mankind in the end times.
18. guate6 - March 13, 2008 10:52 AM
Oh, and the first thing that came to mind (and the last thing I write down), is that this thing reminds me of the movie Waterworld. A great movie that held its production-cost record for 11 years (until Superman Returns beat it).
In any case, I foresee a similar fate.
19. bar room hero - March 13, 2008 11:26 AM
Time shares?? WTF
20. blp - March 13, 2008 12:13 PM
I'd never heard of this before. This site costs you nothing to read, if you don't like it, fuck off instead of hanging around to comment you muggy little cunts.
21. SlowMonkey - March 13, 2008 1:49 PM
Someone in this boat said "the world is my toilet".
22. v - March 13, 2008 2:25 PM
You know, scientists are predicting that the great flood will begin in 2017.
Think that's enough time for that to be built..?
...But wait, how the hell are they going to have fuel, and with the human race dying, does anyone really even care about a casino? Talk about rich people getting their priorities all fucked up.
23. Big City - March 13, 2008 5:26 PM
Dear douchebag commentors,
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8962310630082930010
When this show aired, Freedom Ship was just a concept, and at the end of the episode, they made it very clear that it wasn't going to be made because they couldn't get funding. The fact that it is actually in the works is news. The caption itself says that it has been a concept for a long time. You guys bitch when Geekologie posts concepts, and you bitch when they post things that aren't concepts anymore. Get off my interwebs.
24. The Thompson - March 14, 2008 12:22 AM
Now just imaging when that thing sinks ilke the titanic...
Let's see anyone give a shit about Leo DiCaprio when there are 50,000 others going down at the same time...
25. butterbee - March 14, 2008 10:25 AM
I still haven't heard about this yet.
26. smooches - March 14, 2008 5:00 PM
your so fucking hilarious, give me your address, i'll be over for some hot tube action in tens mins, and i am one sweet lady!!!
27. smooches - March 14, 2008 5:00 PM
haha tube - yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah *tub
28. Zola - March 15, 2008 5:46 PM
"2,400 time-share units"?
Why the hell does this thing need time-share units?
29. The Laughing God - March 17, 2008 12:40 PM
I am going to sail away in Rosanne Barr's ass. Admission is free, runs off clean burning methane [that should shut you damn hippies up] and there is a lot more space on it than in this thing. Though you do have to fight "horrors" from the depths of her colon every now and then, but you can usually time when hordes of the buggers are about to attack. It is good to have a natural predator, keeps the surviving strain of humans strong. As a bonus, if you can get them in the larva stage they make awesome pets for the kiddies!! Tasty too!
30. jonnyd - March 24, 2008 8:43 PM
It's actually been around for at least 10 years.
Way to go Geek dude. What's coming tomorrow - a rundown on Windows 3.1?
31. Eric - April 3, 2008 1:44 PM
Forget the Casino at the end of the world... Can you imagine being one of the poor people who owns a time share... The world has ended on your week in the time share... The week is now over, and you have to move out of the boat so the next week's resident can come aboard... That would be the suck!
32. Tenchi059 - June 16, 2008 6:20 PM
#9 definitely made a point.
33. End of ze world! - October 5, 2008 6:29 AM
The end of ze world!