Seasteading - Creating floating floating cities

[Sharyn]

Just came across this website - interesting concept.

At The Seasteading Institute, we work to enable seasteading communities - floating cities - which will allow the next generation of pioneers to peacefully test new ideas for government. The most successful can then inspire change in governments around the world.

This is an audacious vision which will take decades to fully realize. We strongly believe in incrementalism -- breaking this huge vision down into manageable, practical steps.



We believe the first key step is for seasteading to become not just possible, but sustainable -- technologically, legally, and financially. In other words, the cost of living on the ocean must be low enough, and the business opportunities promising enough, such that there is an economic incentive for people to live on seasteads. We think the "tipping point" for the seasteading movement will be the existence of a growing market for seastead real estate, which creates an economic incentive for not just residents, but real estate developers to build more and more seasteads.



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Blessings,
Sharyn

[Nadda]

I think if people have the money to create something like that to give it a shot then more power to them. A couple of things i can think of off the bat are...

Living on an ocean is pretty dangerous, you can get hit by huge rogue waves anyday. there will be alot of property maintenance with constant humidity. Also creating a small scale government that works well doesnt necessarily mean that it would work on the scale of hundreds of millions or billions of different types of people. Such as socialism, i think its a great idea on paper but the bigger that the system is means the harder it will be to manage and the higher the percentage of abuse that could occur. Lastly, it seems to me that they would be pretty confined and apparently in the middle of nowhere, it would be a long trip to travel inland wouldnt it?

But like a said, if they want to give it a shot and use their own resources, i'll wish them the best of luck.

[Mad Scientist]

The biggest problem I see with something like that is long term maintenance. How would you causally replace a rusted leaky hull?

Even the above water superstructure would require on going maintenance because of the salty sea air.