An anonymous investor is spending millions to prepare underwater homes for humans
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/03/flooded-quarry-mysterious-millionaire-and-dream-new-atlantis-welsh-border-deep
An anonymous investor is spending millions to prepare underwater homes for humans
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/03/flooded-quarry-mysterious-millionaire-and-dream-new-atlantis-welsh-border-deep
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Summary: An anonymous investor is spending millions on a prototype home in a flooded quarry, with the goal of preparing permanent human residences under the ocean. The article points out that almost all investment and imagination about unknown regions focuses on space, but the ocean is almost as unknown. The article also identifies the technical and psychological challenges with living deep underwater.
“Millions” ? That will not even buy a couple decent above ground homes that will withstand a decent storm.
Basically when it comes to underwater stuff take whatever costs you imagine it will be and multiply them by like 10. That’s how much it costs to build things in water.
*Detecting multiple leviathan class life forms in the region*
instead of angel investors, they need to look for mermaid investors.
I’ve seen those movies… they never end well. I’ll pass.
good, we treated the surface so well, the nature is flourishing and there are no environmental issues. now on to the depths of the oceans, what could go wrong!
“I hear there’s a market for private submarine trips to the Titanic and the main competition folded.”
The best part about underwater homes? No need for flood insurance! Or fire insurance? Easy parking?
There’s a game called Bioshock if anyone wants to know how this ends…
That’s Andrew Ryan’s music. No gods or kings, only man….
Is it named Aquaman & Co’s Property Investment Firm? Cause that’s my trademark pending…
My brain immediately is thinking of Bioshock and all I can wonder is what are they going to do to prevent water breach and containment.
I could see this being viable in something like a long-term disaster shelter. Build it strong enough and deep enough and you should avoid the worst of any major man-made disasters. Obvious problems would be food and power, but if we ever figure out fusion, then you can just stick a fusion generator in there. Tritium and Deuterium are both in plentiful supply in the ocean, so you wouldn’t need to worry about fuel for it. Enough power solves your food problem as well.
That being said, millions is less than peanuts when it comes to this kinda thing, so I doubt we’ll see any meaningful results.
I can’t imagine why we are doing g Bioshock in real life
My wife and I have joked about moving to a house without running water because anytime there’s a water-related problem it’s a MAJOR FUCKING PROBLEM. So living *under*water seems like a very horrible plan.
We should probably start hiring folk for the big daddy positions now
If your looking for me, you better check under the sea.
Under the sea, under the sea,
There’ll be no accusations,
Just friendly crustaceans
Under the sea.
Why can’t the uber-rich just do the efficient thing normally? Trains? NO HYPERLOOP! Normal houses? NO RAPTURE!
Are they made from carbon fiber? Asking for a friend.
Housing on land is becoming so expensive, folks are gonna have to start living under water.
Just make sure your builders are the same people who built the Titan submersible.
Id live in rapture. Would be more intresting then life now even if the splicers would probably fuck me up quick.
I mean, if we are going to try living on other planets and things. Building underwater is probably Going to be good practice in some ways.
When asked for comment, the “anonymous investor” said: “it wasn’t impossible to build a city under the ocean. It was impossible to build rapture anywhere else.”
I’d guess the investor totally ain’t Andrew Ryan?
Atlantis was just the previous attempt of human life on Earth before it reset itself.
Will they be constructed out of uninspected carbon fiber??
No thank you. I’ll live up here. I struggled to ride on a cruise ship because the ocean spikes my anxiety. No way I could live underwater.
Billionaires can afford to spend on their crazy ideas and pay reporters to report on it
After overpopulating the land now we are to make colonies in Water Intresting 😂
OR you could bribe the state govts to let us build houses w/o excessive regulations. it really is not that expensive to build a house if you cut out a lot of BS regs.
Millions isn’t much when it comes to stuff like this
it’s crazy how this used to be sci-fi not too long ago.
Sure, it ain’t one of them la-de-da above-ground places. But if you like dank, hey, forget about it!
Fuck yeah I’ll take Bioshock over this cursed as fuck timeline any day.
>An anonymous investor is spending millions to prepare underwater homes for humans
Aquaman and Bruce Wayne?
I can dig it!!
Guess what happens if they want to cancel your lease or you’re late on rent?
“My name is Andrew Ryan, and I am here to ask you a question…”
[Go Into The Water](https://youtu.be/WnwwlkUkALU?si=Momsq6DMUQxwwv_8)