We recently posted a possible seasteading timeline and asked for feedback on it. At some point, we intend to create a timeline reflecting a more optimistic scenario, showing how quickly seasteading might grow if circumstances line up extremely well.
From our PR volunteer Basia Montauk comes an overview of last week’s press coverage:
Original stories:
What: March Seasteading Social
When: March 28, 2009 12:00 PM
Meetup Description: Come out and socialize with your fellow seasteaders! The Starry Plough in Berkeley has graciously offered to host us from 12-4. We’ve got the place to ourselves, so we’ll have plenty of room.
Thanks to our excellent new volunteer Tyler, who found us this location!
_It sounds like the plot of a pre-Daniel Craig Bond film: an internet tycoon invests part of his vast fortune to fund a fiefdom afloat in international waters.
As ClubStead gets wrapped up, I’ve been pondering the next steps for our structure development. ClubStead demonstrates that a spar platform seastead can be built which can endure the worst storms in a fixed location of California, at a certain price point. But we don’t want to demonstrate just via engineering reports, we want to do it by building prototypes.
There has been a long and active debate about the relative merits of different structures for seasteading, such as spar platforms, breakwaters, SFS (ranging from SWATH to spars to Water Walkers), sailing ships, or retrofitted cruise ships.
You can now follow seasteading updates on twitter, thanks to our new PR volunteer Basia.
Now that it’s scheduled (Oct 2-4), I’ve been talking to many people about Ephemerisle – my idea for a festival of boats and platforms in international waters.
Wed: Yale – good. Had dinner w/ ~12 students beforehand, ~25 came to talk (during midterms week, not bad). Seemed to like it. Several enthusiasts who want to come to Ephemerisle. New parts of talk (what does TSI do, ranting about libertarianism) went over pretty well. Should have an MP3 up sometime.
Thu: NYC. Met w/ book agent, I got the feeling she gets pitched at a lot. She had some good advice – the wider the potential audience, the more publishers will be interested, and pioneering will sell better than politics.
Gossip Bar, 2nd floor, 9th ave between 49th and 50th. Till 11 or 12 local time.
