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Eh, good luck with that. Let us know if you come up with the static electricity energy generator to keep the lights on. Because you know, without magic how would you make the weakest point of your entire philosophy work?

What about Pirates?
Fucking magnets, how do they work?

I've seen this movie before. It's the one where a bunch of people on floating cities attack other floating cities. No, maybe the one where an alien wipes out an entire colony 'cept for a little girl. Wait, the one where a tsunami tips over a ship and it's hell, upside down. Or...

Be on the watch for Smokers!

Bigshankhank wrote:Eh, good luck with that. Let us know if you come up with the static electricity energy generator to keep the lights on. Because you know, without magic how would you make the weakest point of your entire philosophy work?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_power

I have no idea if wave power works, but if it does, this could be a viable solution. Admittedly, the "Seasteading" idea seems a bit kooky to me. Still, I'm intrigued

Rev wrote: It's like real life Bioshock!

I saw this a while a go and that's what I thought.

Yeah, move the thing to "stable regions", where those evil other governments you're competing against keep you safe...

I was expecting this. It's right along there with remote fly-in communities, live-in cruise ships, private islands, etc.
The gated-communities of the über-rich don't need no stinking fences and security guards, they have the luxury of distance.
Gettin' out while the getting is good.

When the revolution comes, no one will be storming no palaces because the rich fucks will all have buggered off to impenetrable hideouts.
No wonder it appeals to the John-Galt crowd.

Well, hopefully, the place will all be cool art deco.

Sounds hilarious. Obviously none of these folks have spent much time near the coast, where the damp air rots books, mold grows on leather, the furniture is forever damp, and cockroaches--oh God, the cockroaches...
They want a floating community? I say let 'em have it so long as they promise not to come back.
Man is not meant to live at sea. It's a hostile environment to anything that was not engineered to live in it.

Will we be able to lanesplit?

Shipping lane split.

I'm sad no one has mentioned Snowcrash yet, someone was faster to the punch in the last thread about these waterheads.

/RM

I bet the shooting will be more exciting than Bioshock...

I'll be reading Snow Crash when I'm done with the Dances With Dragons book, and after that, The Road.

Snow Crash sounds scary.