As I was falling asleep and visualizing breakwaters (design, manufacture, and deployment thereof), I thought about how my favored breakwater design works by making the waves pile up and break (as opposed to being a wall that breaks the waves). And suddenly I realized that, if it was deployed in a circle to protect a seastead colony…it would be a never-ending surf break!
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This is a guest post from Jim Lee, author of the paper Castles In The Sea: A Survey of Artificial Islands and Floating Utopias in our Misc Resources section.
I’ve created a Flickr Group for seasteading images. If you’d like to be able to add photos, just email us your Flickr username and some example pictures. You can also subscribe to it by RSS. We plan to integrate the feed into the site at some point, but using a mature external service seemed like the easiest thing for now. Here is a live slideshow of the photostream:
Sorry this is late, I’ve been sick since Friday, and a bit overwhelmed with the email deluge resulting from our big media week last week. Plus Monday was a holiday, so Friday will be my seasteading day this week. But I wanted to get this email out because there’s lots in it and will be lots more on Monday, I expect.
As I mentioned in the OTC trip report, there is a huge amount of uncertainty in our cost estimates, because we aren’t sure how the expense of a seastead will compare to that of an oil platform. Since we believe that the success of seasteading hinges on whether it can be done at a reasonable price, this will be one of our key areas of research this year.
We seem to be having some database issues with the website today. Please bear with us.
Just as described in Wayne’s original seasteading paper, Rich Sowa built an island out of plastic bottles in net bags. Here’s a video:
Like libertarians, or economists.
There is a lot of debate and worry about climate change. Most are worried about warming and sea level rises, which would cover coastal land and reduce usable landmass. Others are worried about global cooling. A significant swing in either direction would substantially change the latitudes at which human life is most comfortable.
