The Seasteading Institute

Some Fundamentals of Seastead Dynamics, (It’s not really the pillars. Sorry).
Numerous semi-submersible seastead designs feature pillars. Here’s why:
Elsewhere in the Seastead web site, you will find a good […]

It produces no food, no shelter, no sanitation, no education, no transportation, no biomedical support, no human necessities, nor any of the art or literature that keeps us from each others’ throats when we’re […]

If you look into the Archives of this Forum, you will find that much has been said about Biorock.  A problem was that early depictions of the material had the math wrong, and prohibitive amounts of energy are […]

Waste of time?  The Forum may have been largely abandoned by now, but its archive represents a substantial knowledge base.  As for the organization, they have themselves a 270 footer which they are now preparing […]

Abandoned / Dead?
…Which I shall take to mean that over 99% of everything that was to have happened here has already done so without me, and much of my effort here is likely to be wasted unless I invest […]

Has it been my misfortune to find this forum after most of the people have left, or is this seasonal, and they’ll be back? Any idea when?

Does the analogy break down?
Comparisons are being drawn between the Oceans and the American Western Frontier. Just how valid is this analogy anyway?
Has anyone else here read Freeman Dyson? The first two […]

Don’t let the link text throw you, the decimal point didn’t come through. The price is $17,300,000, which suggests to me that some Hollywood or Bollywood studio should just buy it outright.

Oh, Voluntaryism. I guess that’s different. Hard to find if I spell it wrong too.
I guess we crossed in the mail.
Nice list of references and examples, but it’ll take me a long time to read them all. I hope […]

I think that the “you guys” Luke is referring to are both, that he’s saying that those of us who write of government like this need to learn about volunteerism. I think that what Luke is saying is that the “cure” […]

Well, Patrick, I’ll take it from Jefferson:
“It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.”
-Thomas Jefferson to Francois D’Ivernois, 1795.
Anarchy is the least stable of all forms. It […]

Kinda long, but the detractors may have some things backwards. The power cables to shore are so that you can _sell_ your excess power to the landlubbers, right? And the prisoners you’re housing are overflow from […]

Or perhaps even better to have stuff inherently designed to neutral buoyancy, so that you can put it where you want by what you add to it.

Geodesics? There may be just too many problems with geodesics. Don’t get me started. Perhaps the strongest shape in nature is the sphere, but you may be hard pressed to show me _geodesic_ spheres in nature. If […]

Oops! The idea is not new….

Skysteading?
The idea is not old. Jonathan Swift described “Laputa” in 1726, (Gulliver’s Travels). Technology described was magnetic suspension, not useful. Buoyancy by helium? Helium escapes from darn near […]