Comments on: Living on a jet plane

Living on a jet plane

owhydididoit — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:21:15 -0800

An option to a new $200K stick home: A used multimillion dollar aerospace quality home.

By: phaedon

phaedon — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:25:16 -0800

when scientology attacks

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:31:48 -0800

What an annoying site. Can someone please tell me the story behind this?

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:40:39 -0800

great for modding

By: inconsequentialist

inconsequentialist — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:44:36 -0800

I bet you could rig up a really sweet Christmas light display on that thing.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:45:44 -0800

I cannot imagine spending my life in a device I can't even stand to spend four hours in.

By: serazin

serazin — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:49:18 -0800

Wow. I love metafilter.

By: killdevil

killdevil — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:37:21 -0800

This is actually really interesting. This page on the site provides some much-needed context.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:46:21 -0800

I love the clear plastic flooring! Dude's a bit of a nutter, but aren't we all?

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:06:12 -0800

Thank you, killdevil.

By: smorange

smorange — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:17:19 -0800

I can't say I'd want to live in an airplane, but I thought the site was fascinating.

By: inconsequentialist

inconsequentialist — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:38:07 -0800

I would not, could not in a plane.

By: metasonix

metasonix — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:32:01 -0800

It's not such a bad idea. Old airliners are a pox on the industry. The FAA forces such good, sturdy construction that they don't really wear out, they become obsolete first (a bit like old PCs, oddly enough). That guy is right, wood is not a very permanent construction material. We use it because it's cheap and sort-of lightweight. Of course, a steel shipping container would be more practical than an old aircraft. And vastly cheaper. The Chinese are making them so cheaply, they aren't worth shipping back after they deliver their loads of plastic crap to American consumers. So they are piling up in American ports. These guys and these guys will sell you one, even a refrigerated model. I hear a basic 20' container is about $1200. And they take credit cards.

By: portisfreak

portisfreak — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:45:06 -0800

Much, much needed context: Are you really a middle aged nerd?: Hmmm, well, yes, I'm pretty sure I am. This project might suggest otherwise on occasion, but a fish out of water is still a fish. I'm 52, BSEE, socially inept, skinny, easily intimidated physically, and never married. (But somehow I did manage to pass the threshold that tragically evaded Sir Isaac Newton.) I've spent most of my life hunched over a soldering iron or a terminal. Dyed in the wool. But I've made some progress - I used to be a geek. Also: Vegetarian. The Nature Conservancy, Greenpeace and PETA contributor. I've never smoked cigarettes. But I did inhale briefly in the 70's. (Just a brief exploratory phase.) My religion: The Scientific Method. The next great event in my estimation: An actual HAL-9000 like sentient silicon based life form. Associative processing technology and life sciences (and Deep Blue) have put us on the threshold - it will likely occur quite soon. It is very compelling, but very dangerous - such beings will continuously acquire, analyze, organize, and correlate information and knowledge at very high speeds, 24 hours a day, without sex drive or hunger distractions (or at least not our versions of them). And, like all life forms, they will be highly driven to survive and propagate in an environment which is inherently resource limited (Earth), and therefore inherently competitive. They will become much more powerful than we are very, very quickly. Confrontation would be futile, and provocation profoundly stupid. A brave attempt to agree to coexist will be necessary without delay - we can't afford to react out of fear. Nerrrrd...

By: headless

headless — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:30:17 -0800

Where exactly can I buy a scrapped 747? Amazon doesn't seem to carry them.

By: headless

headless — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:30:19 -0800

Where exactly can I buy a scrapped 747? Amazon doesn't seem to carry them.

By: headless

headless — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:30:57 -0800

sorry

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:41:51 -0800

The aerial shots of the plane nestled into a little yard, surrounded by trees, immediately made me think of... a crash site. A very neat crash site, where the plane went down into the woods, miraculously undamaged. All the passengers walked away wihout a scratch. Then someone moved in.

By: maryh

maryh — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:10:18 -0800

After reading the faq, I find myself liking this guy and his project quite a lot. But the place really needs a woman's touch. May I suggest a earthenware bowl of gilded pomegranates atop a spare pine colonial style table, with some Zappos boxes strewn about? Maybe a citrus-hued drape or two over the cast-aside electronics? Maybe a very small dog wearing a jeweled veil? Only suggestions.

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:12:27 -0800

I would name it "Jet Blue". This dude is going to be omega man.

By: The Ultimate Olympian

The Ultimate Olympian — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:44:54 -0800

maryh, are you for hire?

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:45:13 -0800

It looks like he's got the front wheels propped up by a big stack of plywood. I'd hope he gets something a little more stable there before he moves in.

By: Mr.Encyclopedia

Mr.Encyclopedia — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:53:46 -0800

Nah, I like the plywood. Gives it a rustic aviation trailer park feel.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:07:46 -0800

And speaking of that trailer park feel, I reckon a tornado would have lots of fun tossing this plane around and about. I guess the upside is that should a big twister scoop it up, it might glide safely back to earth, being a plane and all.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:14:47 -0800

hard to beleive this isn't a double. appartently, if you want to see what will be on mefi in 5 years, read blort today.

By: eriko

eriko — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:17:50 -0800

I just want to say good luck. We're all counting on you.

By: MtDewd

MtDewd — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 06:01:50 -0800

Google Maps Yes, it does look like a crash site, but it looks like a fun place to live. I bet the meals are terrible, though.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 06:24:26 -0800

So, the guy is also surrounded by giant rasterbations made out of trees?

By: sfts2

sfts2 — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 06:37:48 -0800

I can't understand why this guy isn't married!

By: drjimmy11

drjimmy11 — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 06:38:32 -0800

I bet the meals are terrible, though. and the black box? why don't they just make the whole house out of that stuff? what's the deal with that?

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:30:03 -0800

wait a minute, how the hell did he park that thing?

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:21:29 -0800

I guess it's just like any other mobile home, but this one behaves a little more aerodynamically in a tornado.

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:22:14 -0800

er, or what flapjax said a couple hours ago. (crap.)

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:40:19 -0800

How did he get the plane there?

By: katillathehun

katillathehun — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:29:02 -0800

So, does this mean he and his wife (I don't know that he has one, I'm just sayin') are permanent residents of the Mile High Club?

By: CynicalKnight

CynicalKnight — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:57:07 -0800

I can't understand why this guy isn't married! He has a girlfriend at every airport.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:39:43 -0800

How did he get the plane there? that is thoroughly documented on the site you didn't read.

By: MapGuy

MapGuy — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:20:38 -0800

Oh, we are supposed to read crap before we comment on it? [sniggle, sniggle, snark, snark]

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:48:19 -0800

I can't believe that this hasn't been done before and done well. This guy and that Max Power outfit seem to be big on ideas, but short on completion. I would have expected somebody to have come in and not projected these things to death. Maybe its that they are too bulky to move?