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jhuffman comments on How likely is Peter Thiel's investment into seasteading to pay off? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: jhuffman 01 September 2011 01:54:39AM 0 points [-]

Have you looked at their website at all? They say that they will be more than 200 nautical miles from any country, out of any EEZ.

Comment author: Hyena 01 September 2011 02:04:33AM 2 points [-]

Read my first paragraph. You can also read an overview of admiralty and maritime law re seasteads helpfully hosted by the institute. It's not pretty.

http://seasteading.org/files/research/law/Balloun%20-%20U.S.%20Law%20Enforcement%20Admiralty%20Jurisdiction%20Over%20Seasteads.pdf