Paypal Founder Puts a Half Million Dollars Into Seasteading 275
eldavojohn writes "Wired is running an informative article on Paypal Founder Peter Thiel's investment in seasteading. There's a great graphic indicating how the spar design helps platforms weather rough seas with a ballast. There's a lot more than just Thiel throwing the half million towards this and they hope to pitch this to San Fransisco for a bay pilot. Ocean colonies can be both liberating and also downright human-rights-lacking scary."
Re:heh (Score:3, Informative)
Seasteading could be a very interesting social experiment, especially to anyone with libertarian leanings.
Re:Confirmed shipping addresses... (Score:2, Informative)
Not at all. It would pass under you virtually unnoticed. Tsunamis aren't a problem until the water gets shallow. As for general stability, you just need to have enough mass well below the surface.
Re:Best current bet for utopia (Score:5, Informative)
You are aware that the word "Utopia" means "Nowhere", right?
Re:get real (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Slashdot Whipping Post Du Jour (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Deep Libertarianism: Human Ecology (Score:3, Informative)
Then again, maybe societies designed to be in constant flux would be easier to leave. It depends on how much your life is attached to the physical location of where you live, and the people who share it with you. The latter is where it gets sticky.
The Millennial Project (Score:4, Informative)
Buckminster Fuller (Score:1, Informative)
link [cjfearnley.com]
``There are three types of floating cities: There is one for protected harbor waters, one for semiprotected waters, and one for unprotected deep-sea installations. The deep-sea type is supported by submarine pontoons positioned under the turbulence, with their centers of buoyancy 100 feet below the ocean's surface. Structural columns rise from the submarine pontoons outwardly through the water to support the floating city high above the crests of the greatest waves, which thus pass innocuously below the city's lowest flooring, as rivers flow under great bridges. The deap-sea, deeply pontooned floating cities will be as motionless in respect to our planet as are islanded or land-based cities.
Pacific Gyre / Great Pacific Garbage Patch (Score:5, Informative)
and somehow make it out of all this crap. [wikipedia.org] Now that would be
worthwhile.
Re:Great Pacific Garbage Patch (Score:3, Informative)
5.1kg/km is not much. You'd have to scoop a hell of a big area just to get as much mass as the boat you're scooping with. I think you're overestimating the amount of debris and the size of the pieces.