Recently, Portuguese reporter Vitor Hugo Alvarenga contacted us to find out more about The Seasteading Institute, as part of a feature for high-profile news outlet TVI24.pt about the seasteading movement. Entitled "Viver no Mar", the three-piece feature focuses on The Seasteading Institute, on SeaLand, and on the concept of seasteading in general.

I was checking up on T-Mobile's website to see what their roaming rates are by country, as I'm doing some international travel this weekend.

I was delighted to see that their list of "countries" you can check coverage on starts with all the countries in the world...and then continues on to list individual cruise ships, sorted by cruise line and ship name!

Thanks to Eelco Hoogendoorn and a host of valuable community support, our first offical Engineering report is now available for general parusal. You can pick it up from our new (and still in-progress) Research page, or download the PDF directly here.

From the Preface:

This past weekend, the city of Seoul, South Korea, launched the first piece of a floating island called "Viva", one of three floating islands destined to take their place in the Han River next to the Banpo Bridge this summer.

The Seasteading Institute February 2010 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: