The Seasteading Institute

Reply To: JeffM wrote:By that I was

[quote=JeffM]By that I was assuming by flag you meant our own flag, if you meant another nation's flag I apologize.[/quote]

I do mean our own flag. But I don't mean it as in painting some colors on a piece of fabric and saying "Hi, we're a new nation made up of floating concrete". You establish a new, land-based nation first, gain internation recognition, and then let seasteads of all make and size fly under it.

[quote=JeffM]Talk of fomenting coups and invading countries makes me sick to my stomach.[/quote]

[quote=Gentry]I kept avoiding posting in this thread.. mostly out of disgust :P[/quote]

Sheesh, bunch of prissy little girls.

In my opinion this is the single most important issue facing seasteading. All the discussion on engineering, government, infrastructure, religion, and business are meaningless if seasteads cannot be autonomous entities. There is no point in TSI moving forward with its "mission of furthering the establishment of permanent, autonomous ocean communities" if this goal is impossible. And after pages and pages of online discussions...and who-knows how many thousands of dollars spent on ClubStead designs...there is a single 30-minute talk by Jorge Schmidt covering this subject that basically says "you guys are screwed".

Hey, if I can spend $100M and in the process I eliminated a nation that is killing it's own people, brought peace and prosperity to a region that was lacking it, and in turn got a nation that would have as its central ideal the advancement of seasteading I would go for it.