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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

http://www.freedomship.com/

Remember this thing? Monty posted about it a while ago...we weren't really sure if they were serious.

Well, guess what?:
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,217795,00.html

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

"My God, that's a big ship."

I wonder if they'll need a staff librarian?

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

They better watch out for stray icebergs...even if they're in the Carribean(sp?) !

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

If that things sinks...

Hmmm. That gives me an idea. Bult 100000 more of these, and sink 'em all. That'll get rid of the excess population of the world.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Hmm...every Ayn Rand devotee on Earth located on one ship? I wonder if we can convince them to build another one for L. Ron fans.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Well, there's a coincidence... Someone at the library yesterday was looking for an Ayn Rand book, and now I hear the name again here. Who is Ayn Rand?

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

I saw a special on this on TLC...

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Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :

Thats odd, I saw a reference to Ayn Rand while looking through the Andromeda website....I thought it was just made up.... guess not...

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

What, have none of you ever been disaffected adolescent intellectuals?

Ayn Rand was an author and philosopher, whose mildly kooky philosophy of Objectivism has attracted some really kooky folks. You can read all about it in such works as "Atlas Shrugged" or "The Fountainhead".

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Ah, that's the one the patron was looking for: The Fountainhead.

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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

And she's just all over the net with such sites as:
"College of New Jersey's Ayn Rand Society"
"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies"
"Center for the Moral Defense of Capitalism"

*shudder*

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

The band 'Collective Soul' named themselves after a line in 'The Fountainhead'.

Posted by Epoch (Member # 136) on :

I don't seriously think this project will ever see completion. It just seems to be way to ambitious. However if it does come to be I will be thrilled because it is really cool.

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