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There might be one reason: all the land on Earth is owned by a nation or protected by treaty. Perhaps a city in international waters could be built without any
by robotresearcher 9y ago
There might be one reason: all the land on Earth is owned by a nation or protected by treaty.
Perhaps a city in international waters could be built without anyone's permission, and outside any nation's jurisdiction.
Does anyone with expertise know if this is true or not?
- Analemma_ 9y agoIf you were to do that, I still don't think it would end up looking anything like the X-Seed. You'd probably build "out, not up" and end up with something like the Raft from Snow Crash.
- simplicio 9y agoHow many non-nations have 1.4 trillion dollars hanging around to build such a thing? Even if Apple and Exxon convinced their shareholders to liquidate their companies and put all the resulting money into building this thing, they'd still be half a trillion short.
- robotresearcher 9y agoI didn't say it was practical or likely. I wondered why would anyone build away from land, and this was the only thing I could think of.
- ty_a 9y agohttps://www.seasteading.org/ https://www.seasteading.org/ That's the goal of the Seasteading institute.
- jszymborski 9y agoIt kinda sorta works? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand