https://allthatsinteresting.com/seapod-floating-home
this is why you never build the thing you raised venture capital for, just make more promised and keep raising more capital
The Grift Master of all Grift Masters. Ahead of the NFT grifters by years.
That's such an absurdly bad idea. Like how do you take "ok so we make a tiny building float," which is 100% a solved problem (you just make a boat, something we've been doing for literally thousands of years using the most basic materials and methods possible) and turn it into "ok so we made an extremely unstable, dogshit boat with a high center of gravity for literally no reason"?
Not to mention it's really confused about its target audience: rich bastards can just buy or rent land and actual, stable houses, poor people who'd be displaced into marginal environments could never afford a luxury boat-pod and if displaced literally onto the water for some reason would probably end up stuffed into shacks on a decommissioned old cargo ship or something, and rich people who are really into seasteading want an actual boat they can flee the consequences of their actions in.
It's a weird libertarian dream. Same guy, same project, some years before:
But this week, Chad Elwartowski, a Michigan man who sought to live on the ocean in a prototype, octagon-shaped dwelling with his girlfriend, a Thai citizen, is in deep water with the Thai government, which alleges that he infringing on its national sovereignty.
Elwartowski said he is is now on the run, and could be be imprisoned for life or suffer the death penalty if he and his girlfriend are caught.
See, I'd think that would teach him that what rich creeps who want a luxury houseboat really want is something fast and seaworthy so they can flee, maybe radar absorbing materials to elude the navy of whatever country they pissed off that time. The McAfee case shows it doesn't even need to be their primary residence in the area so long as they can reach their boat ahead of the local police.
with his girlfriend, a Thai citizen
Libertarian, Thai girlfriend, yep there's definitely something real dark behind that relationship.
The Dutch have entire neighborhoods that consist of floating houses. It is very much a thing that people have already figured out and that just works. On lakes. Or in docks connected to a river. Not on the open fucking ocean.
This is the houseboat version of the hyperloop.
After investigation, Ocean Builders determined that the toppling was caused by a bilge pump malfunction that threw off the balance of a steel spar in the prototype and caused it to flood.
so the "green" home needs a pump and a computer running at all times? It can't even maintain it's own buoyancy passively.
they probably want the end users to pay a subscription to keep the seapod upright, kinda like those luxury car heated seats
if your subscription lapses, you get dunked
not a bug ... a feature (for passive income)
Moral of the story, live on a boat like a normal sea going weirdo.
Didn’t Trashfuture talk about this one recently?
Yeah, I was instantly reminded of that. Why have a landlord, when you can pay a "Sealord" to rent out one of their pods in the SF bay! just don't ask too many logistical questions like "how do you get groceries?" and "how do the toilets work?" That one was a banger.
You will eat the sea bugs (shrimp). You will live in the sea pod.
I'm torn because I know this is a dumb idea by dipshit investor but I would absolutely move to Pacifidlog Town from pokemon if I could
that's what you get for designing your new venture capital project in the Spore building creator
