Spaceship Tahiti

This is just a dream that will never get by the leftwingers.  I’m just using up brain juice on the long ferry ride. 

The island of Tahiti is a volcanic island, and the whole chain consists of smaller islands, and atolls.  On Tahiti everybody lives on the very thin outer edge.  The whole economy is black pearls and tourism. It appears that the tourists are slow coming back, everything seems rather empty.  I give it 5 years before nano-tech copies the pearls to perfection.  It was the same with lab diamonds.

I love it here, and so will the entire world.  However, there is no more space.  So, although it is quite lively here, you’ve got another 20 years of paradise.  They will have to restrict the population, which destroys the vibe, and the land prices will go through the roof, or be rationed. All of which destroys brain power.  All the brights will leave.

My idea is as bad as using physics for weather forecasting.  We turn Tahiti into a spaceship.  The plan is to tunnel into the volcanic rock and create huge chambers.  The rock is good, but porous.

We will put in a small sodium reactor, or in 20 years we have practical, small fusion.  It will be way at the bottom of the complex and totally safe.  At the beginning, the chambers will be used for industrial facilities, such as water and sewage.  The coral is sensitive to the tiniest bit of nitrogen and we have to expel water that is cleaner than we take in.  

There could be hospital facilities, and worker housing and sports facilities.  Modern technology will make underground living quite pleasant.  Full spectrum bright lighting.  Most important are generators for hydroxyl ions.  No covid spread here.  Screens everywhere will be windows.  Tourism remains on the outside edge.

The chopped-out rock will be basalt.  It can be ground and used everywhere.  Ships will take it out for road aggregate.  It can be used to augment the atolls.  The coral reefs have evolved for sinking islands.  There is no rise in general sea level.  Only the warmies believe that.  The atolls have many islands that have sunk, and these can be raised, like Chines imperialist islands.  Great spots to relieve tourism pressure.

This can be easily done for a fraction of what musky lost, being a twit.  Like spaceyx, you can do things to keep up the cash flow, and this is ten times better than going to Mars.  The first thing is selling aggregate for island building, at 10 bucks a yard.  The first caverns will be used as warehouses for Amazon.  They can chip in a few billion.  

We are now in the remote islands.  Not enough money for the listless males.  Not a speck of tourism.  I give it 5 years, but it is already lost to tourism.  They have decided to make up for covid by charging a fortune for the jungle hovel that we are now in.  Anybody got a toilet seat?  

When we hollow out the whole island, we can start on tunnels to other islands.  This is the most stable rock in the world.  We can keep the surface pristine.