Basesteading Update: Wiki, location DRP
The basesteading/outpost project that I blogged about earlier now has a wiki page.
News
Defense Science Board Task Force Report on Sea Basing
August 2003, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. An unclassified report, which begins:
The geography of the United States, as an island power with the need to project military power across two great oceans, has made amphibious warfare a core competence in the American way of war – one that will continue to be critical in protecting U.S. national interests.
Future warfighting concepts of operations call for light, rapidly deployable, maneuver forces supported by remote fires.
Going Galt (humor)
Cute parody post from Sadly, No!, a “liberal/progressive humor site”:
I’ve had enough. Dr. Helen is right. The Chrysler debacle was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Unless it was the Dijon mustard. Whatever. I’m not going to play along anymore. I will no longer be blogging just to enrich Google or BlogAds or somebody else who just siphons our money and redirects it towards a usurper who wants to destroy capitalism. Blogging is not a suicide pact.
I quit.
Unqualified Reservations on seasteading
While I don’t agree with his evaluation of seasteading, Mencius Moldbug is one of the major bloggers advocating for a world of competing private governments, so it is great to see him engage with our ideas (as well as wielding his characteristic wit against democrophilia).
Future Islands: Art by Joy Lohmann
There are many ideas of a better world floating around the globe.
April 2009 Newsletter
April Highlights:
Birthday, Annual Report and New Membership Program.
On April 15th, 2009 was a big day here at TSI. The Seasteading Institute has released its Annual Report and announced a new and improved Membership Program.
Design Contest Entries Are In – Vote For Your Favorite!
41 designs were submitted as part of our design contest, including many outstanding entries. Go check out the gallery to view the entries and vote on your favorite for the $250 Community Choice award. Check back to see the winners on May 15th!
Residential Cruise Ships
Two articles. The site is kinda spammy but the articles are good:
Basesteading Belize
Awhile back I posted about DanB‘s Basesteading proposal and my related ideas on Seasteading Outposts. Pastor_Jason and others have taken the idea and run with it, and are seriously considering putting a group together to form an outpost, most likely in Belize.
US Navy working on seasteads
We are not the only ones to recognize the opportunities offered by the ocean’s dynamic geography. From The Economist:
Foreign military bases have both political and practical difficulties. “Seabasing” may offer a solution
BASING troops and equipment on foreign soil is fraught with difficulty. Even friendly countries can cut up rough at crucial moments, as America found when Turkey restricted the use of its territory and airspace during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
