Wayne, Mike Doty & I have put together a new Weekly Research Program, as our first pass at a Distributed Research Program. Each week, a new topic will be posted in the DRP Forum (RSS). People will research solutions, and at the end of the week, a moderator will summarize the results to the Wiki. Essentially, we’re reproducing the infrastructure sections of the book in a more detailed, up-to-date way. The details are on the Weekly Research page.
We are going to switch to monthly snippets, as weekly seemed too often for such a small organization. In addition to posting them here, we are emailing them to the new Seasteading Announcements mailing list, as many people said they preferred email to blogs. The list will receive a subset of the information on the blog: monthly snippets, social announcements, and major updates.
Thanks to our videographer Vijay and volunteer Chris Rasch, both halves of the conference are now available on Google Video. We will have links to DVDs for online purchase shortly.
Today, America goes to the polls. Whoever wins, we will not be ruled by a tyrannical despot. Whoever wins, we will not die by the millions of starvation. Whoever wins, there will not be widespread violence, or a civil war. Democracy is a huge advance over previous systems – it is very good at minimizing bloodshed.
If you haven’t run across N55, they are an odd somewhat-anarchistic art collective based in Denmark. Among other things, they work on small DIY floating structures like MICROISLAND, FLOATING PLATFORM, MODULAR BOAT, and SMALL FISHFARM. Their most recent project is a walking house. While not the most efficient way to implement dynamic geography, it has (like most of their projects) a certain artistic flair:
LearnedAx writes:
I am at the Singularity Summit 2008, as are our Volunteer Coordinator James Hogan, Conference Coordinator Gayle Young, and a number of the seasteading08 attendees. If you’re here, come chat with us!
TSI Volunteer Chris Rasch, who ran the Seasteading08 conference, has some interesting discussion about common objections to seasteading on his blog. He answer questions like “Won’t it be prohibitively expensive to live aboard a ship fulltime?”, and “What about motion sickness?”.
I have captured the group brainstorming sessions by taking pictures of each sheet (not uploaded yet), and creating Google Docs. Anyone is welcome to edit the doc, just comment here or email