Random Game-Changing Facts About Floating Cities & Seasteading (17 items)

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  (#8) Seasteaders Don't Want to Live Off the Coasts of Countries With UN or EU Membership

  TSI has discussed with several countries the possibility of building floating communities just off their shores, but they don't want their potential new micro-nations anywhere near countries with United Nations Security Council or European Union memberships. Countries with those affiliations wouldn't provide the necessary autonomy for a proper seastead to thrive. TSI has also ruled out countries in hurricane and cyclone zones. Which countries are candidates? Ghana, Columbia, Hong Kong, Panama, and Singapore, among others.
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  (#10) The First Major Seastead Could Be a High-Tech Business Incubator

  Foreign entrepreneurs looking to sell their big ideas in Silicon Valley run into a big problem: US immigration officials limit how long they can stay in the country, thus cutting into the valuable time it takes to get their big ideas off the ground. Enter Blueseed, a proposed seastead-like business incubator off the coast of San Francisco that would allow foreign innovators to work close to Silicon Valley without government meddling.

  What about trips to the mainland? B-1 visas would allow workers to freely travel back and forth from Blueseed to Silicon Valley for business purposes and are valid for as long as 10 years.
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  (#16) The World's First Independent Seasteaders Will Win a Prize (And a Statue)

  Actual independent seasteading - with de facto political autonomy and financial self-sufficiency - is still just a dream, but the Seasteading Institue promises to reward dreamers who make it a reality with the Poseidon Award.

  Details on the award are vague - will there be a cash prize? - but TSI says it will include a "physical monument" inscribed with the names of donors who have helped make seasteading a reality. In order to qualify, the winning seastead will also have to have at least 50 full-time residents and offer real estate on the open market.
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  (#6) The First Full-Time Modern Seasteaders Would Have to Be Super Rich

  The first seastead prototypes will likely cost about $100,000 per occupant, which doesn't sound super pricey, but that's $100,000 in cash we're talking about. Banks likely won't accept a seastead as collateral, so it's not like buying a house.

  What does that $100,000 get you? If you're living in the seastead envisioned by Wayne Gramlich (who coined the term), only about 100 square feet of living space.
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  (#7) Seasteading's Biggest Champion Is a Donald Trump Fan

  Seasteading poster boy and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel is many things: a billionaire, a futurist, a "comic-book villain" (according to Gawker), and a seeker of eternal life. He's also a supporter of Donald Trump's presidential campaign and is a Trump delegate in California.

  Why? Thiel hasn't officially commented, but it's speculated that they share views on immigration and libel laws.
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  (#1) Seasteading Is Basically the Only Way to Create New Nations from Scratch

  Want to create your own country from scratch? If you want to do it on dry land, you're out of luck: as the Seasteading Institute points out, "there is no land unclaimed by existing governments." Seasteading advocates say that living at sea is likely the only way to truly start a new nation, noting that even unoccupied islands are controlled by existing countries that exploit their fishing and mineral resources.

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