Hmm, this sounds familiar:
The Space Frontier Foundation is transforming space from a government-owned bureaucratic program into a dynamic and inclusive frontier open to all people. Our central goal is the large-scale permanent settlement of space. We believe people have the “right stuff’ and that everyone will benefit from opening the space frontier.
On Cheryl Cline’s acerbic and always amusing blog:
Permit me a little whining: why does everyone ask the same questions, and act as if they’re the first to ever think of such objections? Here’s a few examples…
Question: Seasteading—the idea of living on floating platforms and ships in the ocean—is a novel approach to starting new governments, or just to life in general. But won’t you be raped and killed by pirates?
Answer: I’m glad you asked.
I don’t think I can do any better than last year’s inspirational post, so I suggest enjoyable re-reading it.
If you’d like to read more about secession, independence, federalism, revolution, non-territorial secession, and related matters, go check out Secession Week at Let A Thousand Nations Bloom.
via OpenWorld comes the post How to Live in a Shipping Container, with a number of pictures of shipping container homes:
Laissez-Faire city was a new country attempt in the 1990s, based in Costa Rica. Despite many flaws in the idea (some of which I document in my 2001 visit to CR), I will always have a warm spot in my heart for it, as it was the first project I had some firsthand experience with. Here is the ad they took out in The Economist in June of 1995:
I’m glad to see other people trying this area, we are actively investigating it as well, and the more players the better when it comes to getting acceptance for a new industry. It will be tough to make it work, though, a number of post-ResidenSea ventures have tried a condo cruise ship, and none have pulled it off. It is worth keeping in mind that investors, founders, and banks lost approx $100M to $200M on ResidenSea, out of a $270M or so investment!
Maybe not a boat that goes in the ocean. But a boat for a calm lake? Totally, says Chicken John. Like, I think this boat is made out of duct tape:
His post has a few other examples. Great inspiration for Ephemerisle, whose website is now up at ephemerisle.org.
Check out Monday’s post on Secession Going Mainstream and Basics of Secession, or the Intro/Index Post, over at our sister blog A Thousand Nations. Please help us spread the word about Secession Week!
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.
