This is hardly new, but America seems to be
morphing into a rather unholy beast at the moment.
The NDAA was signed into law not a month ago
allowing detention of US citizens without trial – ever -
and now a big profile website, megaupload.com,
has been shut down.
Not much going on, some interesting findings on database
structures and I will be moving to Malmö in a week.
We have had no replies from the “Floating City” movement,
I will try more directly at some later time.
At the moment everyone involved with Floathaven
are seriously strapped for cash (as in “how to survive?”)
so in the meantime I will focus on getting a job
and the organization framework – which will kick ass.
Sorry for the short update blog, life is life.
I know this may be boring to those looking for pretty pictures of seasteading,
but I see the politics of such an undertaking as more vital than anything else.
As such as you may know I am now working on my
bachelors project which will be all about organizations.
While our site has a low bounce rate (means people usually stay rather than run for hills)
it is not entirely clear what we are doing to newcomers.
With Obama passing the NDAA and the EU suffering general
political incompetence and growing corruption it is clear seasteading
is more needed than ever.
To succeed we need help and
volunteers, we need to draw people in.
So we are starting to agree somewhat on a
discstead design and since building a test boat
would take almost as much effort as a real
floating island we are considering moving right
ahead. Yes that is right, this movement needs
action and we are ready.
I have briefly mentioned before that ours is a specific brand of technocracy; namely positivist.
Just like theologies of Islam and Christianity both use
prayer, rituals and strict moral codes while disagreeing on goals
many types of technocracy exist with similar ideas and very different goals.
Well what are the others then and is this important?
A lot of numbers with “billion” after them being thrown around these days, often
followed by the words “EU”, “debt” or “crisis”.
Debt and contagion have become magic words today, words that can be used to justify
any expenditure or political choice; much like the word “terrorism”
has been used to justify a thing or two.
As scientists at heart lets look at simple stuff first, lets look at “loan” and “investment”.
So the college semester end is upon us (me really) so todays blog
will be some short updates on what I have been doing.
House idea
One of the ideas we are working with for a future project is
naturally a floating house. As such I have been
brainstorming ways to build a house on
a simple discstead in a cheap, but satisfying way.
I have thought more about this and I think the anchoring
should be our priority number one, if the island sinks we can fix it
or scrap it, but if it drifts off we could suddenly get a
huge fine or something AND loose a maybe otherwise functioning island.
Even our first attempt at some floating modules failed due to
the mooring and not their horrible quality.
