With the release of all the engineering documents on our ClubStead page, lots of questions have come up. For example, some people have pointed out that the topside weight and platform load are incompatible, and that there are negative airgaps in some of the big wave scenarios.
We believe strongly in the virtues of transparency, which is why we released the engineering information as soon as we could – right after the patent was filed – even though it isn’t complete.
Solid_Choke posted this ad in the forums, it’s great! Almost like they are thinking along seasteading-type lines.
The strange, weird, red-pill world of political theorist Mencius Moldbug is not the world as I see it. It has far more extremes, more evil, more black-and-white judgments, and more overarching historical themes. But I find it fascinating because it overlaps with my world in places where few others seem to.
Today, we’re kicking off a Seastead Design Contest with a $1,000 Grand Prize and lots of other great awards. To win, use 3-D modeling software to build the best-looking and most creative seastead you can. We supply you with a 3-D model of a bare ClubStead platform — what you create on top of that platform is up to you.
Legal research volunteer Jorge Schmidt pointed me at this new book which describes a trend which seasteading will accelerate:
Today, a California resident can incorporate her shipping business in Delaware, register her ships in Panama, hire her employees from Hong Kong, place her earnings in an asset-protection trust formed in the Cayman Islands, and enter into a same-sex marriage in Massachusetts or Canada–all the while enjoying the California sunshine and potentially avoiding many facets of the state’s laws.
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](https://seasteading.org/strategic-areas/engineering/clubstead)I’ve created a hub for information about our ClubStead hotel/resort design. It contains all the info posted so far, plus a SketchUp model for you to play with.
The next trickle from our engineering wrap-up: a video of the ClubStead design in a hydrodynamic simulation of movement in 15′ waves. Download the WMV, or watch it on YouTube:
MI&T has been burning the midnight oil to get this engineering report out.
Hey everyone. We’ve got several new features launching this week, just in time for the traffic from the Wired Magazine article – Live Free or Drown: Floating Utopias on the Cheap.
