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Engineering The Impossible: Freedom Ship (2002)
Discovery Channel
Date Added: 15 years ago.
Documentary Description
Engineering the Impossible was a ground-breaking 2-hour special, created and written by Alan Lindgren and produced by Powderhouse Productions for the Discovery Channel. It focused on three incredible, yet physically possible, engineering projects: the nine mile (14 km)-long Gibraltar Bridge, the 170-story Millennium Tower and the 4000+-foot-long Freedom Ship. This program won the Beijing International Science Film Festival Silver Award, and earned Discovery's second-highest, weeknight rating for 2002.
Freedom Ship was a floating city project initially proposed by Norman Nixon in the late 1990s. It was so named because of the "free" international lifestyle facilitated by a mobile ocean colony, though the project would not have been a conventional ship, but rather a series of linked barges.
The Freedom Ship project envisioned a 1,317m-long integrated city with condominium housing for 50,000 people, an airstrip to accommodate turboprop aircraft, duty-free shopping and other facilities, large enough to require rapid transit. The complex would circumnavigate the globe continuously, stopping regularly at ports of call.
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Due to the stresses of hogging and sagging, conventional shipbuilding would be inadequate for a floating complex 1400m in length. The developers have stated that they will use a segmented barge-building technique, giving the hull flexibility and allowing incremental expansion.
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