You call that a yacht? Timothy Collinson (22 Dec 2020 05:12 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Kurt Feltenberger (23 Dec 2020 01:51 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Timothy Collinson (23 Dec 2020 08:24 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Jonathan Clark (24 Dec 2020 02:41 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Kurt Feltenberger (24 Dec 2020 02:51 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Timothy Collinson (25 Dec 2020 12:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Kurt Feltenberger (26 Dec 2020 02:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Timothy Collinson (26 Dec 2020 09:58 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Jeff Zeitlin (26 Dec 2020 15:46 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Timothy Collinson (26 Dec 2020 20:29 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Thomas RUX (26 Dec 2020 21:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Timothy Collinson (26 Dec 2020 21:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Kurt Feltenberger (26 Dec 2020 23:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Kurt Feltenberger (27 Dec 2020 00:20 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Phil Pugliese (27 Dec 2020 00:55 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Kurt Feltenberger (27 Dec 2020 01:10 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? James Catchpole (27 Dec 2020 01:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? James Catchpole (27 Dec 2020 01:45 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Phil Pugliese (27 Dec 2020 09:55 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Kurt Feltenberger (28 Dec 2020 05:05 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Jeff Zeitlin (24 Dec 2020 10:30 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? James Catchpole (24 Dec 2020 15:19 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Timothy Collinson (25 Dec 2020 12:23 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? James Catchpole (25 Dec 2020 13:36 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Kurt Feltenberger (26 Dec 2020 02:38 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Thomas RUX (24 Dec 2020 13:49 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Timothy Collinson (25 Dec 2020 12:30 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Kurt Feltenberger (26 Dec 2020 02:36 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Jonathan Clark (25 Dec 2020 01:36 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Kurt Feltenberger (25 Dec 2020 02:30 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Phil Pugliese (25 Dec 2020 02:30 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Timothy Collinson (25 Dec 2020 12:14 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Cian Witherspoon (31 Dec 2020 05:14 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Kurt Feltenberger (31 Dec 2020 23:54 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Rupert Boleyn (01 Jan 2021 02:16 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Kurt Feltenberger (01 Jan 2021 02:54 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Rupert Boleyn (01 Jan 2021 04:09 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Rupert Boleyn (01 Jan 2021 02:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that ayacht? Charles Hensley (08 Jan 2021 05:05 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that ayacht? Timothy Collinson (08 Jan 2021 12:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that ayacht? Rupert Boleyn (08 Jan 2021 13:01 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that ayacht? Timothy Collinson (08 Jan 2021 14:53 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that ayacht? Kurt Feltenberger (09 Jan 2021 00:09 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that ayacht? Kurt Feltenberger (09 Jan 2021 00:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that ayacht? Rupert Boleyn (09 Jan 2021 01:49 UTC)
RE: [TML] You call that ayacht? ewan@xxxxxx (10 Jan 2021 13:40 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call that ayacht? Rupert Boleyn (09 Jan 2021 01:46 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call thatayacht? Charles Hensley (09 Jan 2021 17:12 UTC)
Re: [TML] You call thatayacht? Kurt Feltenberger (13 Jan 2021 00:48 UTC)

Re: [TML] You call that a yacht? Thomas RUX 24 Dec 2020 13:48 UTC

Hello Jonathan Clark,

>
> 2) What's the point? AFAICT there are three reasons to be on such a craft:
>
> 2A) Habitation
>
> If you're going to live on a luxury spaceship (or, RL, water) vessel, then what's
> the point? It would be a lot cheaper to buy a house somewhere and live there,
> plus you don't have to worry about sinking / hull puncture / piracy / system
> failure / whatever. Also it's much easier to resupply if you're on a planet.
> (You could consider that a physical presence on a planet might be *less*
> secure than being on a spaceship, so you could run with that idea.)

A house has problems such as being in an area prone to flooding, tornadoes/hurricanes/typhoons and other acts of nature. The electrical, plumbing, heating/cooling systems can fail. The structure of the house like roofs after time leak.

Tom Rux