[humour] We should set up a community
We should setup a seasteading community and call it "Wolf 359".
Then when governments attack it we can name the battle, well...... star trek fans will get it
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Seasteading is an interesting concept. Had fun discussions about it in the past but.. most of it boiled down to quite fancy funding requirements to get the initial platform going. Modular expansion would be less of an issue. Pirates are a big deal tho. Freakwaves,too (if you decide to build only a small version due to limited funding)
If you were to get serious with it, i could provide potential locations and tips on construction.
The Hindenburg was a cocktail of things that could go wrong did go wrong and I think that error could be avoided.
As for fresh water: no need to desalinate with tons of electricity. Just heat it (preferably by solar) condense the humid air (cooling water is available in abundance.
As for food: fish and hydrocultures.
As for the platform there are considerations to be taken into account. Like you'd probably want to tether it to the ground (preferably on an underwater-mountain). Buoyancy providing elements should be located more than 30m below sea level and the platform itself more than 30m above sea level to provide reasonable protection against rouge waves. Tethering in this fashion will keep the anchoring wires under tension, providing a mostly stable platform even during rough weather. Buoyancy elements could be old pressure-vessels with a added mechanism to keep the inside pressure a few bar over the water pressure to prevent them from collapsing.
guess technically it's very similar to tension leg platforms used for oil drilling.
Due to the sheer size it's not something you can easily do it home. Shipyards should have no problem building it in a short amount of time.
Maybe there are ways to build a living version of it too. Made from sort of trees or so. No expertise on that from my end, would be darn cool tho.
For supplying important stuff such as medical supplies I'd suggest building carrier drones to fly errands to the next coast. Floatplane types would be an idea. Not exactly difficult to do given today's tech level.
The opensourceecology stuff is more interesting onshore. Talking about onshore, how about an underground city in a desert? Condensing drinking water from air (or collecting them with zeolite). Anyone got a few tons of that stuff around? And some nearby desert which is not bombarded due to fights over oil? We can totally name that one vault 111. Walls made from molten sand/glass.
I'd say the only only threat from pirates would be if your in that kinda area. Personally I think that a "security" team on the colony (yes I'm calling it a colony because it is) would more then likely be enough to deter or at least show it won't be an easy pickings. Obviously if they are more like a small army your screwed.
One thing I could see happening though is people who leave one and form another quite possibly could cause war just like with countries. Some areas would be more favorable.
On a side note imagine the advances you could make technology wise and medically not having to be under the same laws that prohibit testing and development based on the "you aren't God!" Or that's wrong. I think it could be like what's shown in tomorrow land where the limit is what you could imagine.
If you like living dangerously, the great meteor seamount may be the right thing to go for. Makes about 2000km to Portugal
The flamish cap is a bit more to the canadian side of the ocean. St John's on Newfoundland would be the next closest town with about 650km. Bit cooler there, and more fish. I'd expect very few pirates.
Altho the great tablemount is closer to teneriffa (which is a really sweet place), I'd opt for the flamish cap due to practical reasons.
As for the drone. Design goal should probably be around 800km range and fast flight to make the trips despite winds. Would probably end up requiring jet engines and a cruise speed of somewhere around 500km/h. Not exactly the super-low budget solution, but possible. A 250km/h with conventional propeller may be an alternative. Basically something like cessna 182. Guess boat-drones would be an option.
Knowing how difficult it is from living on a tiny island for just a few days, priority should be given to get a self-sustaining platform going (as self sustaining as possible).
One last thing: internet will probably be horrible and only via sattelite link. Doubt anyone would be willing to toss a few millions worth of fiber optics into the sea.
These are also just luxury types of items that would be nice to have but definitely not needed to have this.
So at night, vent your zeolite, at day cook it and condense the steam into water. Not exactly high tech. Once you have water, growing food is pretty straight forward. Long distance wifi for internet is within technical possibilities.
Now that we are getting away from water bases, and moving on to other options here you go.:
Stratostations:
Pirates and weather were a problem at sea level, but what about at 100,000 feet? Plus I have been feeling a little grounded lately.
Missile silo:
Lets face it we could easily start a crowd funding and move in. I got dibs on the lowest 2 levels of the missile tube.
We could also dig our own.
Mr. Teslonian:
Just look at his channel. He does a lot of supper relevant R&D....
I like the idea of a missile silo. God only knows the rockets among many (crazy) things I would build if I had one.*sigh*
Sincerely,
John Doe
I'd estimate a desert to be the most feasible of all those crazy ideas so far. Once someone build a solar oven big enough to cook a few tons of zeolite each day, so we can have whirlpools. And i forgot to mention, same zeolite can be used for heating, cooling and air-drying too!
Hell or even bury 12ft corrugated pipe?