Seasteading Statistics
Over the past 3 months, someone has googled for seasteading every 7 minutes, on average. (And then clicked through to www.seasteading.org). That’s pretty good public awareness!
The Seasteading Institute
Poem: The City In The Sea
The author writes: I have thought much about a seasteading concept in which the economy of the entire seastead is based on the manufacture of hydrogen, from windmills, wave and stream energy. I picture it as a modern day oil state, except it makes no oil, but it instead hydrogen and sell it to the big markets as fuel, for the benefit of the people who life there and take care of the installations. And as we all agree, it myst be in the sea.
Suggest and vote on key chapters for the book revision
One of my major projects during the summer and fall of this year will be getting the seasteading book in shape for publication (initially via POD). I have a giant pile of links and ideas about little sections to write – there is an arbitrary amount of nuance, fun speculation, and neat technologies that could go into the book. But I don’t have time, and even if I did the final result would be hugely bloated. So I need to start by 80/20ing the book – nuance and fun can be added later.
I want your help.
Piracy Maps Mashup
A map of 2008 pirate attacks may be of interest to y’all. It’s pretty cool, you can click through to the detailed report. I love how our world is filled with data!
Notice the complete lack of pirates in the North Atlantic and North Pacific, for example.
Live Free or Drown
Their plans are inspired by the ethos of the modern tech industry, where grand quixotic visions are as common as BlackBerrys, and they see their task not as a holy mission but as something like a startup.
Welcome Aboard a Brand New Country
This is not fiction. It is happening now…
TSI Engineering Strategy Survey Results
We’ve completed our analysis of the responses to our community strategy survey, originally posted here. Thanks to all of you who took the time to respond!
Holiday Fun – Seasteading Theme Songs
There’s a forum thread about Seasteading Theme Songs, including my 80-song seasteading playlist. Go suggest your favorite ocean, freedom, politics, pirate, etc. song!
Some Take the Low Road, Some Take the High Road
DanB’s Realist and Idealist Views of Basesteading addition to the wiki reminded me of the classic low-road vs. high-road distinction which always seems to come up when talking about seasteading strategy. I think this distinction and terminology is useful, so here’s a crack at a book section on it.
TSI On The Discovery Channel: June 8th!
Set your DVRs to record The Discovery Channel at 10PM on Monday June 8th (check local listings for local times). The series is Mega Engineering, and the episode is City At Sea. Note that they are putting the first 3 episodes of this new series into a 3 hour block, City At Sea is the 3rd of these 3 episodes. It covers several projects besides seasteading. We will try to get a video of our segment up.
