Sean Hastings – Experiences with HavenCo and SeaLand
Sean Hastings‘ presentation on his experiences with HavenCo and SeaLand is now online:
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Erwin Strauss – How to Start Your Own Country
Erwin Strauss’s presentation at the 2009 Seasteading Conference is now available online:
Michael Strong: Free Zones and the Cambrian Explosion in Government
Michael Strong‘s talk from the 2009 Seasteading Conference is now online:
Conference & Ephemerisle are over
The website & blogs have been quiet because we’ve been very busy (obviously) with the conference & Ephemerisle, James & I just got back last night. I suspect this will be a bit of a decompression week for us, so don’t expect to hear much this week either, but I’ll try to get some links and roundups posted when I can.
I’m On A Boat – A Capella
UC Santa Cruz’s Acquire A Capella
Almost 500K video hits for a parody of a silly song about being on a boat…Seasteaders, our time has come!
Video: Open Sailing
Via Justin Pickard (who has some entertaining commentary) comes this video from Open Sailing. I had some trouble understanding the concept when I saw their website awhile back (perhaps a language issue?), but the video makes it clearer. I like their idea for swarming algorithms based on weather, political systems, and so forth to automatically suggest good clustering locations for all the participating vessels.
How to Start Your Own Country Anthem, by Danny Wallace
This is by Danny Wallace, a British Comedian, who had a TV show about trying to start a Micronation in London called [How To
Robert Ballard’s TED Talk on ocean exploration
A number of people have emailed me this awesome video, and it was posted on the forums. Some quotes from Robert Ballard:
“NASA’s annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA’s budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.”
_”Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean.
