When a wave hits an iceberg, seals sleeping on it rarely feel it move. Floating oil rigs operate on the same principle. The submerged pontoons that support these floating societies are so heavy, workers often play ping pong on the high seas.
The huge, non-obvious beneficiary of seasteading is the poor. – The Seasteading Institute Co-founder Patri Friedman
The new trailer for one of the most popular video games in the world climaxes with a seastead while the narrator calls for solutions to global challenges. It features a Polynesian voyaging canoe and what looks like a replica of our partner Blue21’s Floating Pavilion.
Seasteading is not a plan for society but a platform for anybody to try their own plans for society.
Everything we enjoy about modern life was once considered utopian fantasy.
Flush toilets constitute one of the greatest threats to the oceans.
“I certainly think if we had competition in governance, we would do a lot better,” Thiel remarked on The Rubin Report. Peter Thiel appeared on Dave Rubin’s show and frankly… Read More »Peter Thiel Speaks for 6 Minutes about Seasteading
Seasteading means the opening of new frontiers and making something happen that has never been done before.
There is more hurricane-free space on the ocean than there is land in all of Asia and North America.
