Posted on 05/24/2018 2:48:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Imagine a world where millions of people abandon the land to live on the sea. On their floating habitats, and free from governmental overreach, people can dine on sustainable algae and live in harmony. They can sail from their own artificial island micro-nation to whatever country they’d like to be part of for a day. Plus, the people would trade exclusively using the cryptocurrency Varyon.
But this isn’t just a strange thought experiment. The Floating Island Project is a very real collaboration between the Seasteading Institute and Blue Frontiers. The latter intends to build floating island habitats after selling enough of the cryptocurrency Varyon to fund the ambitious endeavor. The team hopes to launch the first settlement by 2020, as Futurism previously reported.
In an interview with CNBC, Nathalie Mezza-Garcia –researcher for the Floating Island Project – spoke about the project’s goals to create hundreds of floating island-nations, where people could live by whatever rules they so please. Other goals include: housing refugees who are displaced as climate change gives rise to higher sea levels, enriching the poor, curing the sick, feeding the hungry, living in balance with nature, and powering the world....
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Than along comes some pirates. They invade these floating habitats. They kick ass and plunder the goods.
Utopia dies. End of story.
Or maybe a hurricane or typhoon for added measure. Hope its unsinkable—like the Titanic....oops, never mind.
“On their floating habitats, and free from governmental overreach”
The left and the authoritarians will never tolerate this.
They’ll kill any such free people to prevent any other people from getting any bright ideas about escaping their status as tax and wage slaves.
LOL - there have been so many attempts to create Utopia on earth. This one will, if it even happens, will end the same way.
Where’s that 78 ft. wave when you need it?
They’d discrimminate against cattle ranchers. Big meanies.
Yeah, good luck with that!
Exactly correct.
It will only succeed if it has a strong military force to protect it.
“On their floating habitats, and free from governmental overreach, “
Yeah... government would take no interest in that at all. Not our government that literally claims jurisdiction on the moon, and on into space.
You beat me to it-my 1st thought was “pirates”-some pirates bring an invasion armada, or pretend to be “refugees” and get welcomed onto the island to rape and pillage-or some of the island’s non-pacifist inhabitants see a lucrative business opportunity in turning to piracy, kicking their kumbaya singing neighbors asses, stealing their stuff and selling it on the black markets of other countries-sounds like a plan to me...
Cool. This would be just like “Water World” with Kevin Costner, a fantasy.
Enriching the poor? So will they tax their crypto currency holdings to give to the poor?
Who is doing to do the work of repair and maintenance of these artificial islands/ships???? Guest workers imported from the land?? Will they have an underclass who do the scut work?
Usually Indians and Filipinos.
“where people could live by whatever rules they so please”
Because this is working so well already in all the places liberals are destroying with thier alt-reality worldviews...
Think the atoll attack in Waterworld.
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