permanent test and research platforms are sought to be constructed under ground, under water, ocean floating, and floating in the upper atmosphere.
Each location, or group of location platforms being intended to house and employ no less than 13,000 humans in each, so that should the world be destroyed and this one platform all that survives, it shall have enough humans to re-start the species.
And of course, these platforms and under water / under ground, or floating research centers must be self sufficient, self suportive and following all EMPIRICAL standards of resource management.
(under construction)