seagoing space colony?

For sea based colonies away from national control (and protection), be
away that piracy is alive and well in many parts of the world.

On Saturday, May 11, 2002, at 12:34 PM, Free Trader wrote:

> One way to really find out if anarchy - or any other
> government - would be best for a small space colony is
> to try it out.
>
> Check out this website:
> http://www.escapeartist.com/unique_lifestyles/for_a_new_nation.htm
>
> We don't need to build our space colony at L-5 (at
> least for the time being), we just need a suitable
> habitat located away from governmental interference.
> Several proposals have been already advanced for
> sea-based or seagoing (ship-based)colonies that could
> steam into international waters and become nations
> unto themselves.
>
> Here's an example of a used 328 passenger cruise ship
> (asking price $5 Million USD) that could be purchased
> and retrofitted into such a sea-going colony.
> http://www.tug-barge.com/p502.htm
>
> I'd rather have an experimental colony flop a few
> thousand miles from home than a few hundred thousand
> miles away.
>
> I leave it to others to figure out how the colony
> would support itself. I'm sure there are lots of good
> ideas out there, however.
>
> Get busy!
>
> ====> - Steve Whitting
> Visit Free Trader's Space Station:
> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dunes/8426/
>

Space tourism could be our ticket to the stars. Save your pennies,
suborbital flights for $100,000 may start in 2005! See
http://www.spaceadventures.com/suborbital for details.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html