The Seasteading Institute

Reply To: Tholan

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Why would you think that:

1) US would be against seasteads? I would see US welcoming seasteads in order to ally w/them an put more military bases here and there. Care to comment?

2)How can US stop anybody from building a seastead? I do live in US and if I want (and I will) built a seastead, nobody can stop me. People build their boats here all the time and sail away. and nobody stopped them.

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The US could deny license to any seastead, and then seize an unlicensed vessel. That's at least how I understand the US government would operate against things they don't understand or things they are afraid of.

Take any activity the US government uses against a drug smuggler or unlicensed fishing vessal and understand that a corrupt judge will allow these activities to be used against a seastead.

Take any activity the US government uses against communes and religious groups and understand that a corrupt judge will allow these activities to be used against a seastead.

That is why establishing the legal frame work under which the seasteads can freely be built and put to sea is of paramount importance. No matter what nation they are being constructed in.

I have every hope that the government will be apathetic. I just don't think it will happen. This is a government that taxes people who renounce their citizenship as though they had died. A government that does not care for individuals or for individual possessions.

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The US will not establish a military presence on seasteads. Thats what Marine Tasks Forces are for. The navy would just float on boats where-ever they need to be.

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As pained as I am to agree with this view, Tholan is right. I hate that the world is in such a state that free thinking is sometimes dangerous, even in America. I do see this view as a tad pessimistic and misanthropic, but the fact of the matter is we will have to be 150% self sustainable both in resources and finances in the early days. The disadvantage is where the first colonists into the New World were graced with fertile land and, with a minimum of trouble, knowledgable locals who helped them survive, the seasteads will have to manifest fertile land from the ocean and hope to survive. One hope to save this is something I read an article on some time ago (and since have completely forgotten where I found it) about something called "vertical farming". Literally farms that tower upwards instead of sprawling over acres and acres of land. As far as renewable food sources go that would make for a space conserving method to keep the 'steads in business.

Though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

-Sun Tzu, the Art of War