Seasteading: Construction of Fully Autonomous Floating Cities could start Next Year!

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Seasteading: Construction of Fully Autonomous Floating Cities could start Next Year!

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A fully autonomous floating city was once just a libertarian fantasy, but is now just a few years shy of becoming reality. French Polynesia signed a deal with the Seasteading Institute on Jan. 13, agreeing to host the world’s first floating city, or seastead, in a tropical lagoon within its protected waters, the New York Times reported.

The seastead will be designated as a special economic zone that will develop innovative technologies for solar power, aquaculture, and wind energy. Design-wise, the floating city will consist of interconnected square and pentagonal platforms made from reinforced concrete. ...

With rising sea levels threatening many Pacific islands, seastead advocates believe floating cities may be a solution. Seasteads are being touted as environmentally friendly and restorative, as the presence of floating communities could also spark recovery for the region’s dying corals by slightly lowering water temperatures in their vicinity. The Seasteading Institute will have to complete environmental and economic feasibility studies, but construction on the project could start as early as next year.

President At Play - Obama In French Polynesia is this related? :-?

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Floating Cities link, set the start point of a video

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The imbedded video, will start at the beginning. This link will skip the first 55 seconds. :!:

Appending &t=55s is what does the trick; the full url is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B6eqU6sqNk&t=55s

Another nice addition to Snippet Savers & hints how to do stuff


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Re: Seasteading: Construction of Fully Autonomous Floating Cities could start Next Year!

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GrandMasterB wrote: September 25th, 2017, 9:47 pm The new Atlantis?
Not until a big storm comes through.

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