# Would Floating Cities be Practical?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-floating-cities-be-practical/236971>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 28, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-floating-cities-be-practical/236971 "2004-03-28T21:27:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-floating-cities-be-practical/236971/21 "2004-04-02T15:04:21Z")

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> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#):
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> Think, darn it!!
> 
> Icebergs.
> 
> Titanic.
> 
> Celene Dion.
> 
> We can’t let a diaster like that happen again.
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> And that ship sinking was pretty bad, too.

Think!

Earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, fires.

Disasters happen on land, too.

And disaster movies, like death and taxes, are inevitable.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-floating-cities-be-practical/236971/22 "2004-04-02T15:11:58Z")

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> [@Evil Captor](#):
>
> Think!
> 
> Earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, fires.
> 
> Disasters happen on land, too.
> 
> And disaster movies, like death and taxes, are inevitable.

But Celene Dion is _not_!!

Let us all band together to stamp out this human air raid siren, before it is too late!!  
Also, the iceberg could sink the floating city.

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