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 theyd like to be part of for a day. Plus, the people would trade exclusively using the cryptocurrency Varyon.
But this isnt 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 projects 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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meh. New Zealand
A majority vote in Congress, Trump’s signature (and a state’s willingness to part with territory) can create a new independent nation, or two, or two hundred.
And that line about people living by whatever rules they so please sounds like a nice way to describe a state of anarchy...
In general government overreach is directly proportional to population density. The closer people live together, the more rules and government enforcement is required to make it work. Densely populated islands are for libtards, not freedom lovers.
I wonder if the Philippines will ever realize they were better off under us than independent?
I’d like to live, on the sea. In an octopus’s garden with you.
I was wondering, if you have to be liberal, to be allowed to live on the island?
Will it be a communist paradise? There will be no government? Marx said the state would wither away, no need for a government, under pure communism.
The apologists for the excesses of people such as Stalin and chairman Mao, often were that they were in a transition to communism, but their countries had not yet achieved pure communism.
“Than along comes some pirates. They invade these floating habitats. They kick ass and plunder the goods.
Utopia dies. End of story.”
I think they forgot that part.
Someone needs to rent this entire bunch a copy of ‘Waterworld” and make them watch it about 13 times-—back to back to back to.......
“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.”
What about eternal life??
And some of those pirates will be soldiers from governments who want control of those Utopian assets.
I’m sure they’ll escrow the guns for building it as they peddle their crypto, so everything is above-board, right?
Can’t happen (sin)
Burden not Columbia with your chaff!
Just consider the sanitation problem.
“I was wondering, if you have to be liberal, to be allowed to live on the island?”
Answer: yes. Because absolutely everything is subject to PC hypersensitivity and hysteria these days.
But no worries, there will be LGBTQXYZ islands, hook-up islands, immigrant islands, jihad islands and islands to go have your baby killed. It’ll be a freaking Utopia!
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