Seasteading 101: How to Build the World’s First Society-at-Sea | Marc Collins | Big Think

[@ryanboarman5910]

How did you not call this a Seaciety?

[@nicolasbascunan4013]

A new seavilization

[@BluesJustice]

With seamen?

[@user-ph6fo2sp1u]

Or a sociesea

[@omegahaxors9-11]

Because a Seaciety is what happens when you mix Sea men and Sea people.

[@trajan74]

Because SOUTH PARK DID IT in the SIMPSON'S DID IT episode.

[@originalname1337]

This was really interesting on a conceptual level, but I think your video would be better served if you cut to some footage / screens of the actual locations or technologies he's talking about. A talking head is only so engaging.

[@drkzyuuay5796]

Book didn't have enough pictures in it

[@BrentHollett]

Welcome to Big "Think" 😛

[@lisandronicoletti8567]

Hi I am a Brazilian with 17 years old and have the same idea for the future, let's just leave the sand to plant and extract minerals, and the whole rest of the population on boats and huge platforms, so what I want to do is something like this me make to world a better place, I that this sound crazy but if you I want someone with ideas to share just contact me.

[@willmcelroy6376]

Great idea Lisandro. the future is safe in the hands of people like you

[@henrymorgan1047]

Creative people of goodwill, which want to make this world for a better place, should united and keep contact to each other, so that we would be ready for this day, when the time will be right and we could make our dream to reality and create our own country, the first real country of freedom on this planet, free of any slave system, free of any government, with just few simple and clear rules of life. It's sad, that even in 21th century our governments are trying to take more and more control over us and want to make of us nothing more as simple slaves with limited rights, which only destination is to work whole life and paying taxes, so that they could continue their living in luxury, slowly our freedom will be lower as in a dark medieval times, so the revolution need to come. I live already 20 years with a dream, to create new country/ new society (for example to create some huge new island on international waters), where all people who biggest wish is to be free could live there.

[@CountingStars333]

That's a good idea. I think we need to build near Singapore or build on the ocean floor. And our things should be environmentally friendly and help fish etc and clean up trash.

[@jghifiversveiws8729]

That's not a bad idea actually.

[@mineeduka4488]

I have the same idea... living in the seas

[@kinngrimm]

If buildings would be rotatable, they could work as sails and by that you may avoid hurricanes. Additionally if these could be constructed in a way so they would serve as anker for space elevators there maybe synergies.

[@chayblay]

Just googled space elevator. Scifi sure is imaginative

[@kinngrimm]

@@chayblay what exactly made you believe i didn't? Sure Sci-Fi is imaginative, it is practicly the bases of all fiction and as you may know at times they imagine correctly. I mean communicators (is an often used example from Star Trek) to connect to anyone who has one in the world , when you take a step back is easily seeable as magic ;) and yet now there are smartphones making people dumb. Obviously someone in advertisment was looking ahead of time.

[@thecasualfront7432]

Fascinating concept

[@jo-han]

Anybody thinking seasteading is new should look up Jacques Fresco designs. Seasteading maybe a new name but rebranding old ideas does not make it really new. But as technology advances it makes it more an more possible to really create these advanced designs.

[@potatoresearch3902]

Starlink fixes the internet problem for 99 dollars a month.

[@Derpster2493]

Seacities skylines.

[@JewTube001]

Tropico 5 - Waterborne

[@jghifiversveiws8729]

Perfect

[@JustOneAsbesto]

SHould be plenty of easily accessible wind power as well.

[@BrnBear]

Just started this video, and I've always wanted an empire in the ocean, or under the ocean. Makes you think of Atlantis, and Bioshock...

[@XNicx]

8 hour window to escape is good. However everything would be wiped out and would not be anything to return to. I suggest some kind of gyro balanced spherical anchored domes. Graphene will make this possible and cheap.

[@MrUzzynator]

This is awesome, it's like Panchea from Deus Ex. Combats the rising sea levels, like a futuristic Venice.

[@YePapoteGlobal]

Incroyable. Futuriste mais une réalité certaine

[@divinusgameplay2425]

I have been waiting on this for a long time, has the project work begun, I would like to help

[@yourfriendlyneighborhoodla2091]

This makes me think of the game Brink, this pretty much describes it to a T before the shit hits the fan.

[@djangokill65]

How will these people protect themselves from the "smokers"?

[@Derpster2493]

Smoking kills unless you kill first. It's time to smoke the smokers.

[@thomasbeaumont3668]

I dont understand

[@JZoneX]

Smokers from the film waterworld.

[@Alunaevergreen]

This is a beautiful way for islanders to plan into the future.

[@Kajiggger]

Sea-ciety?

[@SociallyTriggered]

You should open up the idea to the free market where people can buy in and have their on sea stead home.

[@johndough2028]

hope you can build lots of these colonies would be great to see

[@ortherner]

colonizing the ocean!

[@poweroflovepeace]

I would love to live in a floating city!

[@ContinualImprovement]

Does this mean we'll have a real life Little Mermaid Atlantica?

[@cheri_inspired]

Would this also include wildlife?

[@charliem123321]

Legend!

[@fsadelaide]

Reaching out to the Institute? I'm not sure I recommend this..

[@lane2014]

Basically, it's gonna be Bioshock.

[@mattd8725]

Q:Tell me about seasteading oh wise one. A: We are going to build a city on the sea. Q:What about waves and weather? A: Ah, we are not worried about that. We have magical Polynesian genes and stuff. Also, Ayn Rand. Q: Well it sounds like you have everything worked out. I will buy a room on your floating palace within which I will store my collection of crystal glassware and priceless Chinese vases.

[@JD2jr.]

Need somebody to go down and check on those wave generators?

[@u7617]

Do these solar panels kill eco life??? What effects does it have on the eco system?

[@roblund2057]

Let's go

[@hescamping5982]

The cost to build and maintain structures in the ocean is extremely high. For example man made sea walls cost the government tons to maintain, so much they just dumped old ships in the water to create reefs that maintain themselves. This idea here doesnt make fiscal sense when you see how much room we still have left on earth

[@oskarrecon8151]

if not tsunamis ,what about a rouge waves ?

[@BlueFrontiersEN]

The first project will be in a calm lagoon, so there are no waves. Our design firm in the Netherlands, Blue21, is working on the next versions of the seasteads to prepare for rougher parts of the Ocean.

[@marsmotion]

its natural with all the water on this planet. about time

[@Ozguronautics]

There is already a seasteading city. it is Koh Panyee.

[@whatthefunction9140]

Rogue waves might be an issue.

[@grahamt5924]

Why not just have dampers that surround the city.

[@coenijn]

The Netherlands' got this. We know how to create land from water.

[@ThatMetalFellow]

Put it under water and base it off of rapture from bioshock.

[@sebaseba6710]

Matthew B I WANT MY SEASLUG JUICE !

[@scooterdooter]

I'm glad all suffering on earth has been eradicated so we can focus on the important things like this!

[@WiseandVegan]

Please learn about Resource Based Economy :)

[@georgepatsoulis8216]

This is aweful. Those are flats. Boxes to live on top of each other. People want homes and yards, not flats

[@jw2862]

have you ever seen an apartment?

[@markmarsh27]

Kevin Kostner's Water World IS COMING folks. ... This is hugely important s**t.

[@ArunPlaysPiano]

It's already been done, haven't you watched Waterworld?

[@homewall744]

With global climate change, it's more like seaswaying than seasteading.

[@wegder]

It would be wonderful if our Masters could avoid all taxes, while we slave away to make them richer everyday.

[@AlexaAXAG]

Welcome to mother base, Boss.

[@SSpees]

The first step in WaterWorld...

[@alexanderwerewitch]

🌎

[@nightrays2472]

Rapture song intensfies

[@mikevaleska8216]

I know how. Seamen + Seapeople = Seaciety

[@FirstRisingSouI]

Like Stargate Atlantis.

[@iindiar]

anything too large will eventually be corrupted...

[@Lewdo.]

If this is the first then wtf was Atlantis?

[@johnwilliamsscuba6487]

Sign me up

[@TheMykle10]

Seems pretty easy... if I only had money .....

[@TheMAXimumFITNESS]

When he said 200 I was waiting for him to say '200 thousand' - the fact that this only serves 200 people is unfortunate and dissatisfying.. I can't see what dilemma or problem this solves if it can't support any sizeable population nor provide anything besides misappropriation of $ in ungodly transportation and importation fees. Shaking . My . Head.

[@tyed94]

they are testing it out with 200.... if he started with 200 thousand then lots of people may end up dying they need to see how sustainable it really is living on these seacitys

[@johnt6766]

Great time to be a pirate.

[@danz177]

Solar panels on water will heat the surface, so use wave energy tech only. Solar planels shouldn’t be used on water.

[@moonsmonsters]

Hopefully not in a ocean with history of tsunamis or hurricanes.

[@SaNToLoKo7]

Seaciety ;)

[@FikiFirmansyah]

Wait. Is this a pinch?

[@kyuuh7374]

POKEMON ANYONE?????¿¿

[@svartsolsvartsol1648]

china is building artificial islands in the south china sea, why dont these guys just built upon their island that they already have? this idea seems stupid and redundant and very inefficient.

[@FairyFrequency]

Seascape of seascrapers! Cheers x) come visit our channel for more nature inspiration 🌱💚

[@FeLiNe418]

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[@matthewpopp1054]

Just invade Russia, they've got plenty of land.

[@shahzebkhan1117]

No one now build " first" society in the sea.... As Dubai did it "first" with palm islands.....

[@mattd8725]

That's nothing compared to the Netherlands.

[@shahzebkhan1117]

LagiNaLangAko23 O c'mon, nothin' is without problems...

[@iopohable]

please dont

[@LemonsRage]

Rapture... It'll fail haha

[@botowner8623]

Cringe

[@djangokill65]

Isn't "Libertarian Utopia" an oxymoron?

[@Sillesiann]

djangokill65 why would a society that values personal freedoms be unable to establish an utopian?

[@leerman22]

Absolute freedom is a dystopian anarchy. Might makes right when there's a giant power vacuum.

[@yourfriendlyneighborhoodla2091]

djangokill65 You ever play the game Brink? Should check it out

[@LordDirus007]

It's a Anarcho-capitalist society. No Government

[@jameshumphrey9939]

libertarian how about sustain-tarian.......theywill have to have a government with rules and order and laws and regulation - in fact something this complex it demands it - naive really except for the susatiable independent part and non polluting cities on the ocean and reclaiming the land environment to nature animal life and recreation