The Seasteading Institute

Ok, I have for the foreseeable future given up on this project, started breaking down the unfinished balls in my back yard and do not plan on moving forward with this. I will provide a lessons learned for this […]

Right in my back yard:
http://photos3.zillow.com/p_e/ISz1fwtie6195v.jpg

“Making a flying house is much more expensive and harder”
I saw a documentary of a guy who just tied a bunch of balloons to his house and he was able to fly Up into the sky.
The documentary also showed technology […]

Anyone can put up a webpage with a project idea and ask for money.

“I hate those fuckers. Their ideas are so Stalinist they got no clue at all. ”
meh, I have no worry for any communist movement that has no force behind it. It would be like going on the attack against left wing […]

Good idea. I mainly saw it more as having a large amount of energy generation surrounding each stead. Being an energy producer is quite beneficial.
This article <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/saltwatercrops/&quot; […]

I could see it as, he was able to get all of the local wildlife into his boat as opposed to “all animals in the world”. And the area he lived in was hit by a big flood. Perhaps a plate shift occurred or a massive […]

“I mean if someone is gonna copy your patented idea to make money and go out in the ocean who’s gonna go after them and shut them down?”
I believe that initially there will need to be patents because we do not […]

The new poor man’s patent (at least here in the US) is filing a provisional patent application.
This locks you in for a year of showing off your invention and exposing it to the world without anyone being able to […]

One reason for the patent would be so that you can build your own invention without someone else patenting it and then keeping you from building your own invention.

Cool idea for a plant float. It would actually be cool just for the aesthetics of a seastead to have a bunch of floating plants surrounding it.

“Any one actually currently doing this yet? I ask since this thread of the forum is labled “active seasteading” and I see great ideas but none actually doing it yet. I would love to see someone do it and pass on […]

“an actual Bergstead wwould cost at least $5 million”
Ahh…
ya, I was not talking about selling the scale version, just the final version
You never know though, someone may be willing to pony up a good chunk of […]

Funding suggestion for ya…
Most manufacturers count on the cost of the final retail product being several times the manufacturer cost. Manufacturer sells to wholesaler, who sells to distributor who sells to […]

That is quite cool.
The only problem is that it uses helium to stay up. Helium eventually escapes and needs to be re-filled. Helium is not an abundant element. The claim of this being “environmentally friendly” […]

“What links, if any do you have?”
No links. No edit.

“On that basis, it would be impossible to give fully-informed consent to being part of any seastead, or any organization of any kind.”
True. The best route is to have full consent for every action. This would […]