Seasteading was built off the coast of thailand in the beginning of 2019. How far off the coast . 13 miles off the coast. It was outside the territorial waters in the key victory is that it was cost less than the cost of the average american home. It was 150,000 for the first pilot project. This got people very excited like the average middleclass american can afford seasteading now, we had investors interested in underwater restaurants where you could look at the windows at your aquarium. Aquarium windows looking at the ocean. The idea for seb be for people to come in now we are negotiating with other countries around the world to host little startup societies on the ocean to begin colonization. To somebody live at that residence in thailand . Someone lived at the residence for two months. Why only two months . Because the tide nearly took aband complicated this seasteading and my friend fled and at large now and they are safe fortunately but theyve stopped in internet absparked Inter
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