Would you live on a seastead?

[Carlton Banks]

@Elwar, pretty convincing answer.

I like the idea, I'll be watching with interest.

[lokanot0]

It is nice and all living in the sea, but what if a very strong typhoon passes by? Is it any safer than being on land instead?

[GG_nick]

The promise of the kind of freedom it can give is very enticing but at the same time, it's also frightening--- let's not forget "Lord of the Flies". 

[Elwar]

The promise of the kind of freedom it can give is very enticing but at the same time, it's also frightening--- let's not forget "Lord of the Flies".  

The reality is that most people do not truly want freedom. They just like the slogans.

For the rest of us, there's Bitcoin and seasteading.

[Elwar]

The idea of ​​seasteading is always felt attractive and cheerful to me. But it is a matter of surprise that you can live there. What kind of work can be done for living. I'll be able to live there, and how can I sit on the floating island.

The hope is for it to be a great hub for blockchain incubation. The whole economy will be crypto based so anyone in this field will find a welcome environment for doing so.

As well as just about anything you would do in any city.

My idea is to open up an underwater bar that you have to SCUBA dive to.

[joebrook]

It seems very nice and nice place, but I do not like to live in a wounded place that is not recognized by any country, because I prefer to live in the country and I think it's safer.

This is a very next concept but for the sake of tsunamis, I think that i am going to say a big no with them being so far away from others, what will happen in the case of an emergency.

[Mariksa]

It would be fun living there. It is very beautiful. But I think it is safer in the country.

[bernashka]

I prefer to belong to any state. And do not be in free swimming. But everyone can choose the state and everyone can move there.

[countryfree]

I guess that for the foreseeable future, we shall not consider a seastead as a permanent place to live. But it could be a good place for a summer vacation, or a second home. I sure could enjoy spending a few weeks a year there. More? I need to give it a try, first. So I'll hope they'll start with the building of a nice hotel.

A bit like the people from New York who all their life, go to Florida for their summer vacation, before moving there permanently when they retire.

[SkyFlakes]

It is a great thing to see this kind of innovation. But if I would offered to have it, I would probably say no. Yes, government somehow sucks but it is better to have it. I don't know but I think government makes everything just perfectly ordered. Another thing is it is not safe to have it because it is full of danger in sea than of the land. Another thing is that I am afraid of seas as I see it as an empty space. This is just my opinion. I would still choose to be here in what I used to be.

[Elwar]

It seems very nice and nice place, but I do not like to live in a wounded place that is not recognized by any country, because I prefer to live in the country and I think it's safer.

This is a very next concept but for the sake of tsunamis, I think that i am going to say a big no with them being so far away from others, what will happen in the case of an emergency.

In a tsunami the safest place to be is floating on the water far away from shore. You probably wouldn't even notice.

[BADecker]

When will floating island nations be able to produce and manufacture all the goods we need to live?

[Elwar]

When will floating island nations be able to produce and manufacture all the goods we need to live?

Looking at the project the pilot project will likely need to still import food. Space will be a premium and building farmland vs oceanfront property for tourists will tend toward the profit made from tourists.

Not until the cost of the platforms is down very low will farming be more prevalent. But the company, Blue21, that is doing the design for the Floating Island Project is already working on floating farms.

Energy, water, etc. will be created on the platform.

[robbietobby]

I think this is more convenient to criminals to serve as their hometown and by thus way their would be a lot of process implemented and they cannot esccape at high levels of security. I think it is not applicable to serve as a homeland. For vacation purposes rather it could be.

[Elwar]

But it is a very interesting idea the only thing that i would ask is how much would it cost for an individual to live in such place.

Blue Frontiers is looking at the initial homes to be around $200k per home on average.

Unlike land though, the hope is that the cost of manufacturing for these seasteads comes down making property cheaper with more innovation.

[Idaujotaite]

I personally couldn't , I dont like the idea of it , but i know others who would really be intrested in this and would be willing. I think it would take courage

[bernashka]

Living on the sea is what I would have dreamed of. But this requires a lot of money, which I do not have. I think that these funds will appear in me in the crypto currency.

[BADecker]

Living on the sea is what I would have dreamed of. But this requires a lot of money, which I do not have. I think that these funds will appear in me in the crypto currency.

You could scour the oceans for all that discarded plastic that is floating around in them - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch - burn it to boil water in a small steam engine onboard your vessel, use the engine to generate electricity for your crypto mining.

[Elwar]

There are tons of plastic on land. Maybe that could be burned for electricity before trying to get the nano-particles from the ocean.

[BADecker]

Aw, you're just upset because you want all that ocean-going plastic for yourself when you get your floating island built.