(#7) Seasteading's Biggest Champion Is a Donald Trump Fan
Seasteading poster boy and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel is many things: a billionaire, a futurist, a "comic-book villain" (according to Gawker), and a seeker of eternal life. He's also a supporter of Donald Trump's presidential campaign and is a Trump delegate in California.
Why? Thiel hasn't officially commented, but it's speculated that they share views on immigration and libel laws.
(#9) Seasteads Can't Just Be Recycled Cruise Ships
TSI cites cruise ships as examples of the viability of the seasteading lifestyle, noting that "over thirty million people a year" already visit cruise ships and are thus familiar with life at sea. TSI thinks cruise ships are proof that the "basic problems" of seasteading engineering have been solved, but they make it clear that cruise ship life and seasteading are very different. You can't just park several cruise ships next to each other and call it seasteading: cruise ships tend to roll in choppy waters and their stabilizers only work when they're in motion.
(#16) The World's First Independent Seasteaders Will Win a Prize (And a Statue)
Actual independent seasteading - with de facto political autonomy and financial self-sufficiency - is still just a dream, but the Seasteading Institue promises to reward dreamers who make it a reality with the Poseidon Award.
Details on the award are vague - will there be a cash prize? - but TSI says it will include a "physical monument" inscribed with the names of donors who have helped make seasteading a reality. In order to qualify, the winning seastead will also have to have at least 50 full-time residents and offer real estate on the open market.
(#3) Governments May Not Leave Seasteaders Alone
The history of establishing micro-nations similar to the ones proposed by the proponents of seasteading is pretty ugly. Existing nations typically assert jurisdiction (e.g., Tonga and the Republic of Minerva) or simply use force to destroy the micro-nation (e.g., Italy and the Republic of Rose Island).
Seasteaders could seek temporary protection by adopting the flag of a nearby foreign country and thus subject themselves to local maritime law, but those countries would probably get pretty pissed if the seastead was a success and hundreds of its former citizens were living and working tax-free just off shore.
(#4) Seasteads Could Be Almost Entirely Self-Sufficient
A proposed Chinese seastead aims to be basically self-sufficient, with plans for tidal energy, on-site farms and hatcheries, and even a factory or two to create necessary goods. Residents technically would never have to leave the city and could even travel to work, parks, and various entertainment venues via submarine and electric car. The 10-square-kilometer island would even convert all its garbage into energy.
(#5) Some People Have Already Been "Seasteading" for More Than a Thousand Years
Think seasteading is wildly impractical? Tell that to the Tanka people of southeast China. The Tanka "boat people" have been living in floating homes and working on seafood farms since the Tang Dynasty (around 700 AD). About 7,000 of these so-called "gypsies of the sea" currently live in the floating city founded by their ancestors as a way to flee a mainland war.
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