The Freedom Ship has recently surfaced again on the Internet, and doing the rounds on several notable trend-spotting websites. What has not been reported so far is that since the idea of this ship has been pioneered eight years ago, it remains an idea to this day.

Essentially, the Freedom Ship is a mile-long, 25-storey high floating barge with 18,000 living units, priced between $180,00 to $2.5 million. Complete with parks, playgrounds, schools, hospitals, businesses, shopping malls, and even a casino, this colossus is Freedom Ship International’s vision of a self-contained floating city.

This city has the capacity to house a population of 40,000 full-time residents. Though this may conjure grandiose scenarios of circumnavigating the globe and living out one’s fantasy, this is very unlikely considering the size of this ship and the realistic speeds it could possibly go. However, the company has claimed that coast-to-coast living is still possible, with the ship docking at a different coastal city every two years.

For day-to-day transportation purposes, residents on the Freedom Ship will rely on airplanes and ferries to commute to and from their offices on dry land. Since the company’s last update in February 2005, there has been no word on its proposed completion, so unless the polar ice caps start melting dramatically, and Apocalypse becomes a grim possibility, the Freedom Ship will just continue its mythical voyage in cyberspace.

www.freedomship.com

via weburbanist.com