The Seasteading Institute

Reply To: ajtaka wrote: Allso one

[quote=ajtaka] Allso one interesting thing a have thought about is using seastead as observation platform. Highseas are one of the darkest areas in world, so light waste won't be a problem. Seasteads are larger and more stabile than boats, so it might be possible to get one stable enough to use it as an astronomical observatory. Only negative side is that you would be in sealevel, so you would not get benefit of thin atmoshphere as in mountain top observatories. so atmosphere would be dense and humid. plus side would be, that you could move it around so you could get it to good observation points.[/quote]

my studies have shown, that humidity will be large problem. so on platform observatory might be impossible, but people have experimented and used balloon telescopes. Seastead could be used as a base for a balloon telescope in the middle of the high seas. Hydrogen for the filling of the balloon would be easy to separate from sea water, but would take guite much energy. Another mighty idea (which is allready in use) and very is a profitable business is spacerocket sealaunching. allthought sealaunch company bankcrupted. offcourse this would need special seastead, which could not be used to much else. Offcourse you could have one at the edge of seacity and float it to safe distance for launch and move it back for launch preparations.