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“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage
..to lose sight of the shore.”

— Andre Gide [quoted in this morning's company welcome email]

Google founder Peter Thiel has made a $500,000 donation to launch The Seasteading Institute, “an organization dedicated to creating experimental ocean communities.” Wired reports:

It might sound like the setting for the videogame Bioshock, but the institute isn’t playing around: It plans to splash a prototype into the San Francisco Bay within the next two years, the first step toward establishing deep-water city-states, or what it calls “seasteads” — homesteads on the high seas.

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The seasteaders want to build their first prototype for a few million dollars, by scaling down and modifying an existing off-shore oil rig design known as a “spar platform.”

In essence, the seastead would consist of a reinforced concrete tube with external ballasts at the bottom that could be filled with air or water to raise or lower the living platform on top.

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The primary living space, about 300 square feet per person, would be inside the tube, but the duo envisions the top platform holding buildings, gardens, solar panels, wind turbines and (of course) satellites for internet access.

(Read full article here.)

Sounds pretty fantastical… and cool! I wish I had $500,000 to throw toward some fantasy of mine — but I’m not sure I would have thought of this.

Honey, maybe instead of downtown living, we can try living on the ocean — literally, on the ocean.