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by a tsunami pod
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have fun dying
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Creative use of his recreational time. . Human nature seeks always to build to solve problems. It looks like more a piece of art.
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Did it ever get finished? I can't find a video of the finished boat.
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That is beautiful work. I wish I had the space to do a tiny home project or a tiny ark.
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let the chassis be the keel
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put wheels, a motor, batteries and propellers on it, a bolt on chassis, you need ballast anyway
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I think that epoxy has toxic fumes
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Why not make one out of aluminium?
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Wow! what an adventure …a trip thru an amazing mind.
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Um...
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But does it float?
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is this some kind go genius , he works in silicon valley as a programmer and in his free time he builds this boat ?
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this is stupid
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Same design as life boats you get on oil rigs etc..
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So are you going to stay at home 24/7 so you can get to it in time, otherwise it's just a waste of space and will never be used regardless of how creative or innovative it is? This is just trashy yard art that his neighbors are most likely complaining about.
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design/build projects are such a fun way to learn
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So this guy didn't try to learn about boat making at all first?
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Noah's ark!
A couple years ago Chris Robinson was a former Facebook and PayPal art director with no boat-building (nor sailing) experience. Then the Tsunami hit Japan (a place where he’d lived and met his wife). He happened to be working in a startup incubator at the time with some “very smart people”, including an astronaut, and everyone was sketching ideas for tsunami-proof shelters. Robinson liked his design (inspired by oil-derrick escape pods and the hanging tree house spheres from Canadian artist Tom Chudleigh) so much, he began to build it behind his house. Two years later, his backyard is dominated by his 22-foot-long, 10-foot-wide and 8.5-foot-high plywood and epoxy tsunami-proof pod (AKA Tsunamiball). Chris' blog (photo/video updates of the build): tsunamiball.com Original story: http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/extreme-weather-house-boat-in-silicon-valley-backyard/