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by bierjunge 1310 days ago
From their website:

>WE CAN BUILD IT !

>Immagine to join together the world biggest yacht firms in an unique project.

>(None of the below brands are now involved yet in the project)

This text is accompanied by logos of companies which are NOT involved and probably never even heard of this project. I highly doubt they can build anything.

The 8 billion needed to build a monstrosity like that seems possible, but doing it in 8 years? I don't thinks so. There are way too many technical challenges to solve and there is no shipyard in the world which could construct it in one piece. Making it modular, would be possible, but not in this time frame.

And the design for the ship is terrible, no maritime engineer would sign that off.

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Salesforce Tower in SF cost $1-2 billion. $8 billion for this seems optimistic at best.