DOMA and Prop 8. Both History.

[Hammerskjold]

... and Galt's Gulch Drive.

Coming to a tropical island near you...

Yeah I've read that one too. Not that exact link, but something similar.

It's semi interesting, unfortunately there is always something like this around, and I've yet to see it really go anywhere beyond the 'artist rendering' stage.

I remember one where a sea\open ocean based city was proposed, and this was even before 'Rapture'. Another was huge arcology, a sort of benign Mega-corp. (Picture a cheery hybrid between Blade Runner, Neuromancer, Anime, and Epcot. But nothing can and will go wrong with that kind of Babelithic project of course...)

To date, none of the things I've heard and read about has anything concrete to show other than maybe a scale model or two. At most a ground breaking ceremony, some bags of cement and an abandoned bare skeleton structure.

So call me cynical on this one, but I won't be surprised if it ends up the same way many of the other proposal did.

Maybe it's just me, but the most plausible plan I've read and at the same time, tragicomic was a guy who proposed an off-world planet to colonize.

A 'Libertaria Prime' planet if you will. (Though the same could be said about Commietopia Planetia-1. Where it's main industry I would imagine is tossing word salads and selling fair trade Che' berets.) Plausible because even though I don't agree with it, I understand what he's saying or at least frustrated about.

Tragicomic because although I actually agree with off world colonization, I think the notion where there is a paradise somewhere if only it's populated by the like minded alone...is very questionable.

To badly quote an obviously oppressive borgouis old dead white guy, 'The fault lies not in the stars...but in ourselves.'