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A seastead is a structure floating on the ocean that people can live on in deep water outside the jurisdiction of existing countries.  Since the focus is just living on the water, and not getting anywhere quickly, a seastead design can sacrifice speed through the water to achieve lower costs per square foot and greater stability than a boat/yacht/ship of similar price.  
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A seastead is a structure which is safe to live on in international waters.  The goal is to enable [[dynamic geography]] where people can pick which legal system they are in without having to box up their stuff and change houses.  Since the focus is on living on the water, not getting anywhere quickly or carrying heavy  cargo, a seastead design can sacrifice speed through the water and cargo capacity to achieve lower costs per square foot and greater stability than a boat/yacht/ship of similar price.  The goal of seasteading is to make a community of people living on affordable seasteads.
  
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Seasteads are expected to move at speeds like 1 to 2 MPH.  With several days notice it might be able to get out of the path of the eye of a hurricane, but it can do much less to avoid an approaching storm than a faster boat could.  It could however do a [[User:Vincecate/Migration|migration]] that generally avoided probable locations for storms.  But it must be designed to be able to survive storms that it might encounter.  
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There are several different lines of thinking about what seasteads should look like and the best strategies to get them built.  The table below shows the main visions for what we should be working on to advance seasteading.
  
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In judging the success of a seastead design we should compare it to boats in the same price range. So a $1 million seastead design should be compared to $1 million boats and a $100 million seastead to $100 million ships. If seasteads are much less able to run from storms, they should have better storm survivability than a similarly priced ship. Lacking pricing information for a design we could compare it to boats/ships of similar total weight.
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!  Vision/Why/Strategy
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!  Example
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!  Example
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!  Example
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|  [[Single Family Seastead]], or [[User:Vincecate/SeasteadingViews|Vince views]], or [[Survivalist market]], or [[Self sufficient seastead]], or [[Refugee market]]
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|  [[User:Vincecate/Tension_circle_house|Tension Circle House]]
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|  [[User:Vincecate/GeodesicVessel|Geodesic Vessel]]
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| [[User:Vincecate/WaterWalker2|WaterWalker]]
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| [[Breakwater Seastead]], or [[BreakwaterBay]]
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| [[User:Vincecate/Tension circle marina|Tension Circle Marina]]
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There are several different lines of thinking on how best to proceed.  The main ones seem to be:
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|  [[Floating City Seastead]], or [http://seasteading.org/stay-in-touch/blog/3/2009/05/21/some-take-low-road-some-take-high-road High Road]
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|  [http://seasteading.org/strategic-areas/engineering/clubstead Clubstead]
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|  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Ranger Ocean Ranger]
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|  [http://seasteading.org/blogs/main/2009/11/02/the-seasteading-institute-november-2009-newsletter The Poseidon Project]
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|  [[Cruise Ship Seastead]], or [http://seasteading.org/votewithyourwallet/shipstead Shipstead]
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| [http://www.aboardtheworld.com Residensea The World]
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|  [http://www.condoships.com/ ORCA]
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|  [http://www.utopiaresidences.com Utopian Residences]
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|  [[User:DanB/BaseStead Strategy|Basestead]], or  [[User:Patri/SeasteadingOutposts|Outposts]]
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|  [[User:Pastor_Jason/Seastead_Outpost:_Belize|Basestead Belize]]
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|  [http://seasteading.org/blogs/main/2009/08/05/why-ephemerisle-matters-to-seasteading Why Ephemerisle Matters] or [http://seasteading.org/blogs/main/2010/05/03/how-ephemerisle-2010-will-bring-us-closer-seasteading Ephemerisle 2010 will bring us closer to seasteading] or [http://seasteading.org/blogs/main/2010/11/04/ephemerisle-program-update Ephemerisle on hold]
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|  [http://www.ephemerisle.org/ Ephemerisle]
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|  [[Ephemerisle]]
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# [[User:Vincecate/SeasteadingViews|Single Family Seastead]]
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# Floating City Seastead
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|  [[Prizes]]
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# Cruise Ship Seastead
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|  [[Ephemerisle_Contest|Ephemerisle Contest]]
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# Basestead
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|  [[Protected Waters]]
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|  [http://www.balticseasteading.com/ Baltic Seasteading]
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|  [[User:Vincecate/FloatingVilla|Floating Villa]]
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|  [[Legal|Mediterranean Seasteading]]
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|  [[Building Seastead Community]]
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|  [http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=56833337759&share_id=77360124002&comments=1&ref=mf facebook]
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|  [http://seasteading.org/ seasteading.org]
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|  [http://seasteading.org/interact/events/conference09 conference]
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|  [[Grid Seasteading, Tissue seasteading, The flexible seastead grid, wave dampening by flexible cover]]
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|  [http://seasteading.org/interact/forums/engineering/structure-designs/the-seastar-platform Seastar Platform]
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|  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_island Uru vegetation islands]
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|  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Island Plastic Bottle Island]
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|  [[Building Knowledge Base]]
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|  [http://wiki.seasteading.org/index.php/Seastead Wiki pages]
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|  [[User:Vincecate/Models|Experimental models]]
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|  Research
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Note that the above approaches are not mutually exclusive, except in the sense that if you spend your time and money on one you don't have it to spend on another.

Latest revision as of 01:59, 5 November 2010

A seastead is a structure which is safe to live on in international waters. The goal is to enable dynamic geography where people can pick which legal system they are in without having to box up their stuff and change houses. Since the focus is on living on the water, not getting anywhere quickly or carrying heavy cargo, a seastead design can sacrifice speed through the water and cargo capacity to achieve lower costs per square foot and greater stability than a boat/yacht/ship of similar price. The goal of seasteading is to make a community of people living on affordable seasteads.

There are several different lines of thinking about what seasteads should look like and the best strategies to get them built. The table below shows the main visions for what we should be working on to advance seasteading.

Vision/Why/Strategy Example Example Example
Single Family Seastead, or Vince views, or Survivalist market, or Self sufficient seastead, or Refugee market Tension Circle House Geodesic Vessel WaterWalker
Breakwater Seastead, or BreakwaterBay Tension Circle Marina
Floating City Seastead, or High Road Clubstead Ocean Ranger The Poseidon Project
Cruise Ship Seastead, or Shipstead Residensea The World ORCA Utopian Residences
Basestead, or Outposts Basestead Belize
Why Ephemerisle Matters or Ephemerisle 2010 will bring us closer to seasteading or Ephemerisle on hold Ephemerisle Ephemerisle
Prizes Ephemerisle Contest
Protected Waters Baltic Seasteading Floating Villa Mediterranean Seasteading
Building Seastead Community facebook seasteading.org conference


Grid Seasteading, Tissue seasteading, The flexible seastead grid, wave dampening by flexible cover Seastar Platform Uru vegetation islands Plastic Bottle Island
Building Knowledge Base Wiki pages Experimental models Research

Note that the above approaches are not mutually exclusive, except in the sense that if you spend your time and money on one you don't have it to spend on another.

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