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Paypal Founder Puts a Half Million Dollars Into Seasteading
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."
> Utopia doesn't exist, will not exist ... ever.
You are aware that the word "Utopia" means "Nowhere", right?
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
Even if they're unable to create their own nation, they might be able to operate under a flag of convenience to achieve the same or similar effect.
A Human Right
Insightful, yet incorrect. The 'tologists at the helm of El Ron had a similar idea about having a colony at sea; named Sea Org, or some such nonsense, follow the wiki-link if you really care to. The tie in is appropriate as the summarizer decided to mention both types of motives for moving to a sea colony; for freedom from oppressive governments, or to further your power over stupid people who follow convincing, well spoken lunatics. Fair is fair, I think Peter is quite a lunatic too. Pay "Pal" blows!
This is the NSA, we're gonna geet U h@x0r5! Also, what is a h@x0r5?
I read it too. The book was called "The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps". At the end of the book, the author called for the formation of "The First Millennial Foundation" in order to advance the project that he had outlined. The FMF later changed their name to "The Living Universe Foundation".
AEIOU: open-source anonymous internet currency
Only if they could build a big plastic island like this guy,
and somehow make it out of all this crap. Now that would be
worthwhile.
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