Man builds his own island

Electric_Head · Post by **Electric_Head** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:41 am

I can't see this.
Is it the guy that built an island out of empty water bottles?

Genevieve · Post by **Genevieve** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 12:08 pm

Pretty insane. But what do they mean left his family? Like kids and shit? If he's got any children then he's a dick.

This is gonna become increasingly more common, though. "Sea steading". The co-founder of Paypal, forgot his name.. is workign on a project to create a libertarian state on an artifical island. Not sure how libertarian it'll be, but it's interesting to see how it'll pan out.

ketamine · Post by **ketamine** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:26 pm

this is cool

karmacazee · Post by **karmacazee** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:34 pm

Superman's branching out into TV presenting I see.

Still, cool as hell, but the way that video was edited meant you couldn't look at anything for longer than 1 second.

joeki · Post by **joeki** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:25 pm

Family man turns gay = becomes a bum, builds a floating island out of plastic bottles he collected for money. Plans to drift out to sea at one point. I say let him drift.

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:41 pm

Tbh I like his approach to seasteading more than this:

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-03-09/tech ... -platforms

Genevieve · Post by **Genevieve** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:54 pm

alphacat wrote:Tbh I like his approach to seasteading more than this:

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-03-09/tech ... -platforms

That's what I was refering to. In what way do you like it better?

HamCrescendo · Post by **HamCrescendo** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 7:02 pm

Genevieve wrote: This is gonna become increasingly more common, though. "Sea steading". The co-founder of Paypal, forgot his name.. is workign on a project to create a libertarian state on an artifical island. Not sure how libertarian it'll be, but it's interesting to see how it'll pan out.

If this happens I will become a pirate.

magma · Post by **magma** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 7:07 pm

This guy's dope.

You won't become a country, but you are dope.

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 7:11 pm

This guy's approach is adaptive and imaginative - he's taking a resource that people throw away and building a more autonomous existence with it, ramshackle as it may be.

The Seasteading Institute people on the other hand are right-wing Libertarians, the worst kind of Libertarian; they're focused on capitalist enterprise and moving it offshore to avoid the "stifling" influence of things like environmental regulation and safety precautions. They talk the talk of personal liberty but don't seem to me to be too concerned with the responsibility to others that comes with that kind of liberty. To quote someone else, "It's a platform parked off the coast of California to provide a place to work in "silicon valley" without a visa. Isolated company towns exploiting migrant workers enters the digital age."

Colbert has a pretty funny take on it as usual.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colber ... nder-siege

Milton Friedman's grandkid stepped down from the board of the Seasteading Institute to spearhead a new right-wing Libertarian project where they do this on land - creating sovereign states within sovereign states. He describes it thus:

One potential model is something Friedman calls Appletopia: A corporation, such as Apple, “starts a country as a business. The more desirable the country, the more valuable the real estate,” Friedman says.

FAIL.

Genevieve · Post by **Genevieve** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 7:25 pm

*must.. resist... grabs... stressball*

dubluke · Post by **dubluke** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 9:11 pm

http://www.originofcool.com/turning-aba ... ni-cities/

this is cool shit

Molzie · Post by **Molzie** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 9:46 pm

I think its pretty amusing that he thinks he'll be able to cruise around the ocean through 20-30ft swells.

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 9:53 pm

dubluke wrote:http://www.originofcool.com/turning-aba ... ni-cities/

this is cool shit

Let's jack one o' deez and establish BASSTOPIA.

karmacazee · Post by **karmacazee** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:02 pm

Makes me think of a part in this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Pi-Yann-Ma ... 184195392X

Book made me feel weird for days.

magma · Post by **magma** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:27 pm

alphacat wrote:
dubluke wrote:http://www.originofcool.com/turning-aba ... ni-cities/

this is cool shit
Let's jack one o' deez and establish BASSTOPIA.

LETS DO THIS

NINJAS ON THE HIGH SEAS, FUCK THE OTHER SIDE

LUKE AND I WILL PRACTISE PIRACY ON FRIDAY

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:33 pm

magma wrote:LUKE AND I WILL PRACTISE PIRACY ON FRIDAY

I hope that's not what it sounds like.

magma · Post by **magma** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:24 pm

It's exactly what it sounds like.

nousd · Post by **nousd** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 3:13 am

too easy
I already have an island.
I'm building an ocean to put it in.

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