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Launching: Vote With Your Wallet
As requested by several community members, TSI is pleased to offer the opportunity to donate directly to specific projects, each of which will help us answer an important open question about how best to make seasteading a reality.
Space Frontier Foundation
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.
Those pirates, they sure will get you!
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.
TSI June 2009 newsletter
The website for Ephemerisle has been launched! Our upcoming aquatic festival now has its very own domain. Take a look and be sure to join the mailing list and follow us on Twitter.
Happy Tax Revolt and Secession Day!
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.
More shipping container homes
via OpenWorld comes the post How to Live in a Shipping Container, with a number of pictures of shipping container homes:
Nation Founding Classics: Laissez-Faire City’s ad in The Economist
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:
New Retirement Cruise Ship project
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!
Anyone Can Build A Boat
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.
