The Seasteading Institute December 2009 Newsletter

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Andre Gide

Table of Contents

• Highlights

  • 2009 Conference Videos

• Poseidon Project

  • Platform
  • Commercial
  • Residential

• Donor Profile: John Chisholm

• Awareness & Community

  • Membership Program
  • Events
  • Media
  • Book

• Hiring

• Membership

• Special Thanks

Highlights

Second Annual Seasteading Conference Videos

We're pleased to announce that all of the videos from the

Na'ama Moran's presentation on the business of Medical Tourism on Ships, given at the 2009 Seasteading Conference, can now be viewed online:

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Will Chamberlain's talk at the second annual Seasteading Conference, "Thinking Structurally About Government", is now available online:

There are a wide variety of opinions in the seasteading community about whether Ephemerisle is a plausible path to full seasteading. Here's my pre-event pitch of why Ephemerisle is useful. Post-event, I have an additional thought.

Our Ephemerisle structure and setup basically worked as plan, with a few exceptions. One is that it took longer than we expected, and was not completed by the noon Friday starting time (although everything did come together for Saturday evening).

Dominique Roddier's presentation on Clubstead Engineering from the second annual Seasteading Conference is now available online:

LA Snark reports on post-Avatar Depression (complete with television news report), and how to deal with it. Solutions include:

• Make some real life friends.
• Stop hanging out with negative people
• Be interesting

And finally, most relevant to us:

Get outta Dodge. Seriously, pack up and leave. This is easier for some more than others, but if you’re bored out of your mind in your current life, sometimes sticking your roots (or tail) in a new, unfamiliar land can be exactly what you need.

Hmm...

TSI Director of Operations James Hogan heads to the ocean (well, Shoreline Lake) in this fun image from a recent TSI staff photoshoot.

Jorge Schmidt's presentation of research on the legal aspects of seasteading is now available online:

Just in case you haven't seen it yet on one of other feeds, check out the awesome 9-minute documentary Jason Sussberg made about Ephemerisle: