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1. Those things look so top heavy.

2. I’d rather just go to a nice tropical country for a week. They have casinos and booze and better looking women.

   Stuck on a boat with thousands of people doesn’t sound fun.
   My luck, there’d be a norovirus outbreak or we’d get quarantined for a month because of Corona. Or the damn thing would just catch on fire and sink.

   1. or the captain could run it onto a rock.

   2. Took a cruise ONCE … a family reunion of sorts … NEVER AGAIN. Let’s just say … too many passengers were … decidedly … NOT my people.

      How is it that a massive cruise liner can be assembled of massive modular parts … but we haven’t yet managed to make housing affordable by way of modular construction? We’ve been trying since at least the 1930’s … yet the wood frame residential construction industry is 95% site built. I have multiple theories as to why … but this ship building appears to have perfected the modular techniques.

      1. Went on a couple of cruises. Caribbean was great, Alaska was amazing. I like exploring so the cruise let’s you visit multiple countries economically. . You can decide which ones you want to revisit longer term based on your own first-hand experience.
         On the east coast of Canada the Irving family builds a lot of modular homes. The biggest drawback is limitations caused by under passes and power lines.

         https://kenthomes.com/homes/

         1. I meant modular housing that doesn’t look like a double wide trailer. I meant a home built by stacking modular units on top of each other … like the construction of that ocean liner. Parts that can fit under power lines and overpasses … but combine into much larger units … with more interesting designs and exteriors.

            1. Yes the link I sent does look mostly like double-wide trailers but they also do custom builds with the inherent cost savings and profit increases associated with modularization. In Alberta the oil and gas industry has lobbied and obtained transportation corridors for very large modules. It is a key strategy for saving money on large projects.

            2. Well, by “modular housing”, I mean, homes where the residents all dress like the cast of Quadrophenia.

   3. Bunny
      Same. 10 days in Puerta Vallharta: Sandy beach & Ocean, far far beats being stuck on a massive floating Condominium….where unless you are Filthy Rich and can afford an Outside cabin…95% are stuck in what are essentially Cubicles….NO thanks.

3. That time lapse of a ship’s construction was interesting. But not so interesting as the moral lapse.