Seasteading Important Sections
Started by: patrissimo 
Jun 09, 2009 Total Views: 2,063 Total Votes: 859
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Challenges: Seastead economics (ocean expensive)
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Challenges: Dealing with current states
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+23 pts |
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Seasteads And Self-Sufficiency
By: patrissimo Why I don't think they should be self-sufficient, and how they can be (for those who disagree with me). Comments (1)
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+21 pts |
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Catalogue specific mistakes of similar projects
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+19 pts |
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Locations: Protected Seas (Baltic, Med, etc.)
By: patrissimo Discuss possible locations in protected seas for lower waves but more chance of interference from close states Add a Comment
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+19 pts |
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Strategy: ShipSteading
By: patrissimo Discuss using ships to advance seasteading Comments (1)
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+15 pts |
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Strategy: Single-Family Seasteads
By: patrissimo Discuss the strategy of seasteading by starting with small structures sized for one family, as suggested here: http://wiki.seasteading.org/index.php/User:Vincecate/SeasteadingViews Comments (1)
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+15 pts |
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Business Model: Hotel/Resort/Club
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+13 pts |
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Designs: Breakwaters
By: patrissimo Possible designs for large floating breakwaters to create an artificial atoll of calm water, even in the middle of the ocean. Add a Comment
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+12 pts |
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Defense: Key defense technologies
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+12 pts |
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Business Model: Medical Tourism details
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+12 pts |
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Piracy - In-depth discussion of stats, locations, methods
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+12 pts |
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Strategy: Avoiding Disastrous Failures
By: patrissimo How can our societies be experimental, while minimizing the costs of failure (like bloodshed)? Add a Comment
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+12 pts |
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Locations: Doldrums
By: patrissimo Discuss the use of the waters close to the equator as a possible location, where the waves are less. Add a Comment
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+10 pts |
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Business Model: Aquaculture details
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+10 pts |
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Challenges: Lack of interest / few seasteaders
By: patrissimo Discuss how to deal with the potential challenge of very few people wanting to go seastead. Comments (3)
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+9 pts |
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Will Seasteads Hurt The Environment
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+9 pts |
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Designs: Single-Family Seasteads
By: patrissimo Discuss possible designs for structures sized for one family which are "better than a boat" for our purposes. Add a Comment
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+8 pts |
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Designs: ClubStead
By: patrissimo Discuss the details of the clubstead design, featured here: seasteading.org/strategic-areas/engineering/clubstead Comments (1)
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+7 pts |
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Designs: Used oil rig conversion.
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+6 pts |
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Locations: Pacific Garbage Patch
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+5 pts |
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Business Model: Algae for biodiesel
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+4 pts |
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Challenges: Perception / PR
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+4 pts |
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Strategy: BaseSteading
By: patrissimo Discuss the strategy of BaseSteading, as described at http://wiki.seasteading.org/index.php/User:DanB/BaseStead_Strategy Add a Comment
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+4 pts |
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Master Lease for SeaSteading Communities
By: JLMadrigal Once they are operational, how will TSI continue funding and managing the operation and development of SeaSteads Add a Comment
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+4 pts |
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Seasteading and Ocean Stewardship
By: patrissimo Discuss how seasteads could help improve the oceans in return for using part of them, for example by promoting fish stock replenishment, CO2 mitigation via plankton, etc. Add a Comment
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+4 pts |
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Logistics - Transporting residents to remote ocean seasteads
By: akjdg Remote seastead locations (doldrums, pacific garbage patch, etc) will be several days' sail from major ports. This may dissuade many prospective residents. More rapid transport necessitates air travel. Can commercial helicopters reach these destinations? Will these remote seasteads have infrastructure to receive fixed wing aircraft? Comments (2)
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+4 pts |
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Business Model: Fuel depot
By: atymes As already noted in the book, cruise ships have range limited by supplies, but they otherwise approximate temporary seasteading. So, how about a mid-ocean depot for cruise ships, where they can pick up fuel (delivered by tankers who may be en route to main ports) and food (ditto, and perhaps on-site aquaculture can help)? This might be small enough for an early stage Coaststead, or perhaps Seastead Lite, to be financially feasable. Aquaculture can grow as the concept proves itself, and if it turns out that people from the passing cruise ships would like to make call in this exotic port, accommodations can be built after that has been proven enough to attract financing. (From there it might grow into the already-mentioned Cargo Transshipment Port; this is a way to get to that point.) Somewhere in the Carribean might be good for this: far enough away from shores that deep-water ships can sail right up to the port, and in the middle of an established cruise ship and trade zone. Comments (1)
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+4 pts |
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History and status of cruise ship industry
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+3 pts |
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Designs: VersaBuoy
By: patrissimo Explore this articulated spar platform design: http://www.vbuoy.com/ Add a Comment
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+3 pts |
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Designs: Wave Blankets
By: patrissimo Mitigate waves through flexibly connected surface modules, such as in the Discovery Channel New Orleans: City At Sea episode. Add a Comment
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+3 pts |
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Location: Reef or other natural breakwater
By: patrissimo Do some research and data-crunching to determine if there are places where underwater reefs provide a wave break, while not reaching the surface and qualifying as national territory for existing nations. Comments (1)
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+2 pts |
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Sovereignty - the Prime Directive
By: JLMadrigal How to keep both individual and stead sovereignty in the forefront of seasteading goals, so that they don't fade away as the movement progresses. While flags of convenience and other partnerships with states may be useful in the short run, they must not be permitted to overtake the movement in the long run. Nor should any one organization - including TSI - be allowed to become tyrannical as it expands. Comments (1)
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+2 pts |
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Overall Governance Plan
By: poliscistudent Who wants to join a movement without clear rules guaranteeing security? Without an idea for how one's input will be taken into consideration? Without knowing what public services will be provided? Add a Comment
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+2 pts |
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Designs: Underwater structure design ideas
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+1 pts |
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Seasteading as a step to space colonization
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+1 pts |
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Issues With Democracy
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+1 pts |
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Current secessionist movements
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+1 pts |
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Government: Specific Ideas For Better Governments
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0 pts |
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Seasteading and Global Warming
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Challenges: Splicers
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How seasteading relates to the current financial crisis
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-2 pts |
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When Does It All End: A Love Story
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-2 pts |
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Seasteading And Happiness Research
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-3 pts |
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Mongo Dogface In The Banana Patch
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-3 pts |
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Seasteading & Rockin' The Paradise
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-3 pts |
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Lunch: And The Barfing Thereof
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Seasteading And The Holy Grail
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-4 pts |
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How seasteading relates to the decline of American Empire
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-5 pts |
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The Global Economy & The Unkel Boob Effect
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-5 pts |
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Seasteading & How To Frame A Figg
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-5 pts |
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Seasteading & The Flushing Of Your Toilet
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-5 pts |
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OTEC: Detailed history, prospects, etc.
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-6 pts |
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Materials: Pykrete
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-9 pts |
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