Re: FW: Sci Fi Cities.
Peter Thiel's response to urban development. Neat to think about, cool pictures anyway.
$1.2 million investment into this (sketchy) organization on his part is probably too small to even build one of these but at least he's trying!
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Y=u're a practical guy after my own heart, Boris — =93Everyone's allowed to dream about what they'll eventually do =ith their dollars, as long as they contribute their pennies to our Good Ca=ses in the here-&-now!" JJ
PS. It's admitted=y interesting to contemplate from a technical perspective how such 'esta=lishments' might gain Lebensraum in a genuinely-feasible manner, =.e., how both area and volume could be 'accumulated' at a feasible cos= per hectare, per cubic meter, etc., so that indefinite expansion of a '=eedling' might be 'self-executing'....
Not sure this is about autonomy?
I'm certain this wou=d be better than life in Mogadishu. And probably cheaper...
Think of all the cool =nnovations that would follow —
1.=A0 Desalination would =e easier and smaller
Energy=requirements would be about the same but necessarily renewable
Sanitatio= would totally change!
=AO Health would matter since livin= in such tight quarters means communicable disease becomes real again (for=everyone!)
I think it would=be cool to offer this up to Somalia or somewhere desperate and see what ha=pens.
Rich people don=92t innovate as quickly!!
highly-active communities-at-sea, A=tually, as it turns ones out, the that Somalis su=port have extensive pioneered entrepreneurial really quite activities vigorousl= great in recent distances years from in forming the nearest=shore, moreover over prolonged time-intervals.
They've even m=de such communities pay -- sometimes remarkably 'handsomely -- so tha= they've 'naturally proliferated both quickly and widely!=/u>
With another hat=on, I've been peripherally involved in detecting the existence-&-loc=tion of — and then 'interacting' with -- such communities, which as-=s-class have had utterly remarkable impacts on marine insurance rates in t=e western Indian Ocean! :):(
PS. Indeed, these d=rt-poor people have innovated remarkably swiftly — and in a highl=-effective manner! Why, they've even attracted significant quantit=es of international venture capital (of a non-too-savory flavor, to be sur=!) to enable their building-out!
In the abstract-=amp;-from a great remove, I do admire aspects of their derring-do! [=ut then I was able to find a number of features of the Soviet system-of-do=ng-things to likewise admire-out-loud — to the continuing fury-&- des=air of the far-too-many USG security officers assigned to my case... :):(J
PPS. If=you were really-&-truly entrepreneurial, you'll pull-togethe= a consortium that'd go out and lease a dozen war-surplus deep-sea drill=ng platforms, and deploy them in a line transecting a major marine-shippin= lane in the deep ocean at a 24-mile pitch, i.e., just a shade less than t=ice the internationally-recognized "exclusive control of offshore seas=94 margins of sovereign nations.
After declaring =hemselves to constitute the Sovereign Archipelago of Francis Drake (or per=aps 'Jeffrey Epstein'?), they=could commence to charge tolls on all of the ocean-traffic passing through=their mostly-'offshore' territories...which fees would likely accumula=e quickly to a tidy sum (e.g., one supporting the oh-so-swiftly build-out =f ever-more 'islands' of the Archipelago, their proliferation across o=her major sea-lanes, etc.).
These tolls woul= naturally be priced at just a shade less than the total costs (fuel, time=...) of navigating around the Archipelago's territory. Correspondingl=, I'd recommend emplacement of the initial Archipelago across either =he east-or-west entryway of the Straits of Malacca... titanic 'regrets=92 are involved in avoiding the Straits in making the transit between the =ersian Gulf and East Asia! :)
Of course, the i=come derived from licensing fishing, etc. in the "exclusive economic zon=s" of 200 mile radius around each such island would be additional...but =hese could be employed to offset the substantial lawyers' bills, "Wash=ngton representation" fees, etc., etc. that would be involved in operati=g such an "instant sovereign!" J [And= to be sure, "The essence of sovereignty lies in its enforcement" — =ut the famous international arms bazaars can instantly outfit-&-staff =he navy of any newbie-among-nations that has a reasonable line-of-credit...I
yes , stamp colletcors will pay a fortune apiece to insure that they have e=ch and every country.