Someone Wants to Build a Nuclear-Powered Floating City for 80,000 People. Here’s What It’d Look Like.
Someone looked at the world’s largest cruise ships and decided they just weren’t ambitious enough. Plans are back on the table for the Freedom Ship, a proposed nuclear-powered floating city that would carry 80,000 people, circle the globe continuously, and be too large to dock anywhere on earth. Who’s in? The concept has been floating around since engineer Norman Nixon first pitched it in the 1990s. Nixon died in 2012, and the project stalled, but Freedom Cruise Line CEO Roger Gooch has revived it with fresh renderings , a $16.16 billion price tag, and total capitalist conviction. “We feel very confident that we can put this together, but capitalization is key,” Gooch told The Telegraph . Ahh, yes. The last part. Someone Wants to Build a Nuclear-Powered Floating City for 80,000 People For scale: Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, currently the world’s largest cruise ship, maxes out at around 9,950 people. The Freedom Ship would car...