This idea sounds pretty great.  

It would be kind of like if everyone lived in RVs and could drive to a different state/country as soon as their home government started misbehaving.  Because it would be so much easier for everyone to leave, politicians would actually have to listen to their constituents or face a rapidly diminishing tax base.

Even if you aren’t a fan of Thiel’s ideology, there’s still a lot of value(new technologies and such) in figuring out how to colonize the ocean.  

The idea actually is very well thought-out, and there’s been lots of work done on it by The Seasteading Institute. For those who say it’s unrealistic, a commercial spinoff of The Institute, called Blueseed, is working on createing a high-tech visa-free entrepreneurship center based on an ocean vessel 24 miles off Silicon Valley. This would allow professionals without a valid work visa (such as non-US-based startups) to legally work in close proximity to Silicon Valley, with all the advantages that entails.

Thanks for the article. The idea that Libertarianism is lawless when it is a consistent restatement of Natural Law is incorrect.

For information on other “lawless” Libertarian and Liberal projects worldwide please see http://www.Libertarian-International.org the Libertarian International Organization.

Nice, but will it scale up?

sign me up   Retiered Submarine Veteran.

y not. whats wrong with that. He has the ability to do it, and the fact that its not his own floating fortress, but for all to take part in is even more reason for this project and things like it to be encouraged, instead negative remarks or sarcasm.
The person who wrote the article seemed like a hater! keep that person off the ISLAND! LOL

sign me up,  im one of the few great thinkers left in this backwards society.

PayPal a good idea; this…not so much.

Sign me up aswell ….  last of a dying breed of inventors that got ripped off ..Now im broke..

Apparently this man never played Bioshock, or seen Logan’s Run, or read 1984, or read Animal Farm (granted that was communism, but it was more about how revolutions usually turn out), or seen Citizen Kane… You get my point.

I remember 30 some odd years ago, a guy from my hometown decided he would do this with his church. I wonder how that turned out?

I agree with Rand, but I don’t think he’s thought this through.  It will need the right culture and occupants who won’t destroy it, as well as rule of law and an army.  Anyway, the article lacks a lot of the finer details on how he plans to go about it.  Probably a pipe-dream on his part.

I guess we won’t have to send out the Coast Guard after the second or third storm.No sense in providing them with services they say they don’t need. Sounds like they just might need that submariner who wanted to sign up. The ocean is a great place for the 1%. In it, not on it.