Talk:Seasteading

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[edit] Engineering problems?

It seems to me like this kind of thing would have a lot of engineering problems. An offshore platform is one thing, one big enough to sustain a decent population and have some kind of production to make it possible for it to have an economy is another. It seems like there's a lot of untapped "this is what you are forgetting, numb-nuts!"--Logic and Empricism (talk) 03:59, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

I think most critics are so struck by the incredibly dumb libertarianism of its proponents that they sort of forget the enormous engineering challenges in such a project.
Just the costs ensure they will always be pipe dreams. Any serious seasteading project will be an enormous money sink for at least one or two decades, as construction slowly works out the kinks. Given the general stinginess of libertarians, it's likely that such a project would be mostly dependent on a handful of wealthy investors, for whom it'd be a pet project they don't necessarily expect to see any return on. Long-shot projects that rely on narrow funding sources tend to die. Star of David.png Radioactive Misanthrope 04:22, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
Just to underscore that point, do read the tale of (mildly hilarious) woe that is Reddit Island Scarlet A.pngpostateModerator 08:46, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
I think the amazing stupidity and low chance of it happening are apparent enough, but I don't think the engineering problems are ever really talked about, and I think someone with some engineering experience could give some good ideas, which I think would Rationalwiki-ify this article pretty well.--Logic and Empricism (talk) 15:00, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
The lamentably high costs is one of the major reasons, why we're not on the moon, in space, under the sea or on the sea (in colonies, habitats, plattforms and the like). Pity that, in the sci-fi it looks rather cool and flashy and the enegneering problems are just an extension of the "it costs a fuckton" problem (and even the high costs problem could've been solved with some amount of creativity)... *sigh*--Arisboch (talk) 14:12, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

[edit] More failures?

There's the external link on the Freedom Ship project. Is there a handy list anywhere of initiatives of this sort? - David Gerard (talk) 22:07, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia has some, if you start linkhopping from wp:Freedom Ship. There's wp:MS The World, wp:Blueseed, and several others that are mentioned in wp:Seasteading#Other (Lillypad, etc.)--ZooGuard (talk) 22:17, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

[edit] Bioshock Infinite

Would Columbia also be considered Sea (sky?) steading? It is a bit less libertarian and more overtly racist; worth mentioning here? Zero (talk - contributions) 13:09, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

We have in fact mentioned Bioshock Infinite and skysteading in one of the footnotes in this article. Nullahnung (talk) 13:36, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
Okay, perhaps then it should be in the section instead of being a snarky footnote. Zero (talk - contributions) 13:41, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
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