Because a LOT of people are missing the point:
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@Infoseepage @n_dimension There are low-carbon concrete processes, but AIUI nothing has been scaled up to mass production. In the long term, cement absorbs CO2—but at ambient temperature and pressure it takes centuries.
@cstross @Infoseepage It's not (just) the production scale: standard concrete is a well-understood material. Engineers are surprisingly resistant to using materials they can't look up the shear strength of, so developers of low carbon concretes have to pay for a _lot_ of materials-lab testing before they can see much use.
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@cstross @n_dimension Oh. I’d already forgotten bored ape NFTs. This timeline is so tightly packed with rubbish even recent past have overflown from my cognitive context window. Sort of like the low earth orbit after Elon gets his way.
@0xtero @cstross @n_dimension I been hacked. All my memory of apes gone.
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@cstross @skjeggtroll @n_dimension Well, most of the issues in space (cooling, energy) are easy to solve in the oceans. So, not quite an Epstein island, but if you put it into a sealed container outside the 12mi zone, you'll get the tax/law benefits?
You will have to physically defend it, though. Maybe with an armed fleet of catamarans, or trained sharks with frickin' laser beams, or something.
@henryk @cstross @skjeggtroll @n_dimension No private entity has the means to defend against the USAF putting a cruise missile through their front door.
Really, the only entity that has come close to effective sea-steading is the US in Guantanamo Bay.
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@Bern @NewtonMark @n_dimension Hell, if you put it in a high enough orbit the solar wind will push it out towards interstellar space. Never mind photon pressure, the thing's a huge solar sail.