PayPal Founder Funds Creation of Man-Made Island Nation
For those following the evolution of seasteading with detached interest, a six-figure donation to the effort might be enough to make the following sink in: floating cities are not just fantasies, but real-world possibilities.
Peter Thiel is famous for founding PayPal and investing early in Facebook, but may become known next as the godfather of an oceanic Utopian movement. The catch, of course: even if they are constructed, not everyone can afford to leave their mainland homes to live on such expensive-to-build aquatic libertarian paradises.
(via DorNob)
