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.
Alexis Madrigal, who wrote the wired story, is interviewed on NPRs Bryant Park Project. It’s great to have passionate people out there evangelizing for us – Thanks Alexis! Also see coverage on Gizmodo and Slashdot, which are…um…somewhat less evangelical :).
But does anyone else think it’s weird that on the one hand our vision gets called crazy…and on the other hand, it gets evaluated based on a video game?
Today’s xkcd suggests geohashing – using the date and Dow opening to generate a random physical location for a meetup. It’s fun to think about this method being used to coordinate Ephemerisle gatherings. I can see the method being both better and worse on the ocean because of it’s relative homogeneity – every place is like every other place. So you don’t have the failure mode of randomly generating a location that’s difficult or impossible to reach, but you don’t get
Hey everyone. The response from the net this week has been phenomenal, which means we’re a bit swamped with emails. Many of them are offers to volunteer or form collaborative relationships, which is great! We have a big vision, a small staff, and a small budget, so your help is crucial in bringing this dea into reality.
Biggest thing this week is tons of web traffic today due to links from high-traffic sites (13K visits so far today). We’ve got some graphs below.
