Main areas this week - pictures, conference, volunteers, wiki.

As I mentioned in the OTC trip report, there is a huge amount of uncertainty in our cost estimates, because we aren't sure how the expense of a seastead will compare to that of an oil platform.  Since we believe that the success of seasteading hinges on whether it can be done at a reasonable price, this will be one of our key areas of research this year.

Patri Friedman's Trip Report
Offshore Technology Conference
Houston, Texas
May 6-7, 2008.

Wayne had an awesome idea today for a demo device we could build in the Bay, we call it the sea-elevator (sealevator?).

As the project has been getting more active lately, Wayne & I are going to start meeting more on Wednesday's. We had an interesting design discussion about some of his thoughts on spar construction, Personal Seasteads, and detachable spars. Highlights: