Yup
Posted on 05/15/2012 7:07:49 AM PDT by posterchild
Imagine living on a serene, man-made floating city where you can live and work with other like-minded individuals from all over the globe, without direct influence from any government entity. If Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel has his way, that wild idea may be just a few years away. The wealthy venture capitalist is putting his money behind Blueseed, a company that promises to create an offshore luxury barge where young entrepreneurs can work, live, and socialize, all without the constraints of a modern city — or pesky immigration laws.
The Blueseed vessel will be more of a floating city than an actual ship, and will come complete with work and living spaces, outdoor areas, and sports and leisure activities. The idea is that startups and solo entrepreneurs will leave their terrestrial lives almost completely, and call the Blueseed ship their primary home.
(Excerpt) Read more at realestate.yahoo.com ...
Waterworld (Kevin Costner)was ahead of its time.
I'm wondering how the occupantsresidents will create enough wealth/value to fund the high-velocity (money, not speed) costs. Takes a lot to keep such a place afloat & moving to any degree worth living on.
Of late a comparable proposal has been floated for locating a ship just outside LA's or SF's international waters boundary so foreigners could work in the area without visas. The key problem is how they could generate enough money to warrant supporting it and attracting people to actually do it at such high infrastructure costs.
But...haven’t they already done that in the USA?
“If Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel has his way, that wild idea may be just a few years away. The wealthy venture capitalist is putting his money behind Blueseed, a company that promises to create an offshore luxury barge where young entrepreneurs can work, live, and socialize, all without the constraints of a modern city”
Sounds like a modern-day recipe for.... “Atlantis II”...
“The “floating artificial nation” is a recurring theme. http://oceania.org/ was a notable libertarian version for a while.”
There’ll be flying boats, and condos with moats
Cultivated oceans, floating cities in the sky
Living underneath a bubble, no more toil and trouble
Singin’ ‘bout that sweet ole by and by
We’ll all have lots of money that we won’t have to spend
You’ll be given everything when everyone’s your friend
Hanging out together in picture perfect weather
This time ‘round the party never ends
Hallelujah, I can’t wait to see it
Hallelujah, come on and go with me
Let me show you the way it’s gonna be
At the turn, the turn of the century
We won’t need no TV preachers to ask how much we gave
We won’t need no TV preachers, see, by then, we’ll all be saved
No more fighting for a country, no child will go hungry
We’ll be smiling from the cradle to the grave
Hallelujah, I can’t wait to see it
Hallelujah, come on and go with me
Let me show you the way it’s gonna be
At the turn, the turn of the century
“Turn of the Century”. From “Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. II” (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and guests)
It’s a fantasy for sure. It might make a nice resort to visit, but I doubt a civilized society would last long.
But in order for it to have any chance of success, it would have to be much more self sufficient (larger) and be exclusionary.
When pilgrims migrated first to the new country and then westward, it was out of hope and desperation based on the ideology of freedom. This plan seems to be born more of principle and fad. A society based on priorities will fail as the priorities shift. It’s innevitable.
For proof I offer the gravitation of America away from its founding values and core individualistic principles and toward a more prioritization of the social well being of the entire populace. Everything in American government today is about what the latest priority to be “fixed” is and there is little thought about the long term affect or the good of the next generation.
Social Security is the most obvious example. It is widely recognized as doomed to fail. But we keep “fixing” it as the next failure milestone approaches instead of abandoning it completely.
The man is obviously rich enough to buy world-class drugs. His brain is fried. His PayPal co-founder, Elon Musk (co-founder of Tesla electric cars), does not have a grip on reality either.
Weathering a storm is about survival. I am talking about the quality of life for those living at sea.
Check out this video of a cruise ship in heavy seas...do you think ANY of these passengers will take another cruise. YOUTUBE VIDEO LINK.
Good thing tsunamis and hurricanes no longer exist.
I think all the posters on this thread are missing the point. This is clearly an attempt to go Galt ala Atlas Shrugged.
In short:
“I and my friends, are better than you.”
This was already done some ages back and worked out pretty well.
Anyone care to guess what I am referring to?
It would be a lot better to just bulldoze Oakland, CA and turn it into a tech-oriented Special Economic Zone, where anyone from around the world could come to work without immigration restrictions.
It would be a great 2-for-1. :)
Venetcia!
For a thousand years it became the fore-runner of capitalist ventures -- a city ruled by contracts and profit. It was so tied to its sea trade and ventures that is was considered more than an isolated city but instead a kingdom of the sea. It was autocratic for much of its lifespan, ruled by an appointed Doge.
On another note, next year is the fictional take-off time for James Blish's "Cities in Flight" written over fifty years ago where Manhattan takes flight to outer space to become an independent entity in space.
Party pooper.....You ask soo many questions........LOL
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