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."

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Not a good way to get chicks?

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

How much you want to bet that after the Liberatarian/Objectivist/Transhumanist crowd breaks this barrier, that the next round of "quasi-sovereign" pioneers on the high-seas will be near-kin to the FLDS or Austrian Basement Incest Rape-Slaves?

Those that think this is a great idea, have already exposed their latent socipathy.