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[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Yeah I think I'd need like $400k to get started though probably. I'd imagine just to get it going I'd need 2 ocean-worthy boats, and then enough of those plastic cubes to do like a quarter-acre of land. And then several more electric motors, and many solar panels and the electronics to run that. And then the mangrove trees, and gas to gather all the floating plastic and to bring everything out there. Sounds like about $400k minimum. Maybe I could talk to that french orange island artist guy and see if he'd fund me lol.

Wouldn't it be cool if there was like a saidit island that was a real place you could move to, with its own laws

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

o_O You've already planned so far ahead...

Wouldn't it be cool if there was like a saidit island that was a real place you could move to, with its own laws

Probably not. I enjoy the conformist order of mainstream society so I can chaotically pull at the strings for the increased confusion and bewilderment of local citizenry and many surveillance operators. Pretty much what I do around this site sometimes lol.

But in real life if it was an outlaw paradise, I wouldn't have the counterbalance to keep me in check. As a vacation or a bug out place, absolutely! Who wouldn't want their own private island they can drive around the ocean to get away from the local autho... I mean bugs. Those darn bugs and mosquitoes. :XD

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

o_O You've already planned so far ahead...

Haha thanks.

Good points, it wouldn't be total anarchy. Also people would have to pay to get there, so that would act as a filter as well. But anyway I just think the concept of inventing a nation on what was previously just open ocean, to be very exciting. Lots of possibilities! Imagine if it got up to being a city of hundreds of people... you could literally create real-estate where there previously was none. It could even become profitable if you could sell the "land" for more than it costs to build it. If it was profitable then it could grow very quickly.

To run with the idea to the full extent, imagine 300 years from now 5% of the oceans are covered in floating land... It sounds like a sci-fi novel, but it could potentially happen someday! I'd love to be in on the ground floor of an idea like that

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

That is an interesting and risky idea! The majority of the earth is water in comparison to the land, and we still do not completely know everything about the depths of the oceans. If there could be fully sustainable, floating oceanic cities; it might also drive the impetus to finally uncover the depths within them.

There is some room for uncertainty though as tectonic plates have been known to rise and fall with changes happening to the ocean periodically. So its risky for the cities involved due to tsunami's, whirlpools and water-spouts. If those cities could sail AND fly then the technology could be be employed in extraterrestrial arenas.

A lot of this sounds like it is already in the beginning phases under Ocean colonization with projects like Very large floating structures, Freedom Ship and theoretical havens operating outside government territories called Sea-steading.

I'm not entirely sold on the premises of this movement though despite offering some initial relief to scarcity of land. Maybe if they more thoroughly ironed out the pitfalls of human dwellings in general through simulated modalities, then a movement towards the ocean could be ideal.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Cool link about sea-steading. That ship looks very over-engineered lol.

The first step would be to make a very small island, like 5000 sqft, and then take it out there with 1 boat, and just hang out for a few weeks and see how it reacts to the waves and such. Perhaps there could even be a wave-break around it to calm the waters under the island. Once the concept is proven, then we could think about expanding it.

I guess I could rent a boat instead of buy one, and I could just use the ship engines to re-position the island at first. But I'd still have to buy the cubes to build the island structure. We're probably still talking like $15k to try it out. Sounds fun. Maybe someday I can give it a try. It would be pretty incredible if it worked.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I agree and wish you the best of luck towards it. Attempting a lot of this stuff in a simulation first, might cut some of your costs if you had access to the physics based software pertaining to engineering/architecture as well.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, maybe we can try it in a lake first, lol. That'd cut the cost by a lot too for the first try. I hope I can try it someday, it sounds interesting as heck. Thanks for the chat

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Likewise, anytime!