I remember a decade or so back seeing libertarians unironically pushing "space-steading" where they'd live in like, tiny spheres of styrofoam covered metal in low earth orbit, entirely under their own control. It was basically the "sea-steading" idea but made even more dangerous and unworkable.
Yeah, I don't even know where to begin with the obsession libertarians have with trying to recapture the sort of autarkic lawlessness they imagine frontier settlers had in contexts that are wildly inappropriate for it. Like "I want to colonize the sea, despite there being no resources there to actually make my dream of a houseboat microstate viable!" or "I want to sit in a tin can in low earth orbit for the rest of my presumably very short life, since there will be no source of food, water, or repair materials in my tiny death sphere!"
I remember a decade or so back seeing libertarians unironically pushing "space-steading" where they'd live in like, tiny spheres of styrofoam covered metal in low earth orbit, entirely under their own control. It was basically the "sea-steading" idea but made even more dangerous and unworkable.
I'm sorry, what?
Yeah, I don't even know where to begin with the obsession libertarians have with trying to recapture the sort of autarkic lawlessness they imagine frontier settlers had in contexts that are wildly inappropriate for it. Like "I want to colonize the sea, despite there being no resources there to actually make my dream of a houseboat microstate viable!" or "I want to sit in a tin can in low earth orbit for the rest of my presumably very short life, since there will be no source of food, water, or repair materials in my tiny death sphere!"