"seasteading" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈsiː.stɛ.dɪŋ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈsiˌstɛ.dɪŋ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-seasteading.wav
Etymology: Blend of sea + homesteading, coined in a 1969 United States commission report (see quotations). Etymology templates: {{blend|en|sea|homesteading}} Blend of sea + homesteading Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} seasteading (uncountable)
  1. The creation of permanent dwellings at sea, especially outside the territory claimed by any national government. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Libertarianism Categories (place): Seas Related terms: homesteading, seastead Translations (creation of permanent dwellings at sea): 海上家园 (hǎishàng jiāyuán) (Chinese Mandarin), התיישבות-ים (Hebrew), систейдинг (sistejding) (Russian), deniz arazileşmesi (Turkish)
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          "text": "Benefits from the acquisition of this new territory include the development of tremendous oil and gas reserves, new mineral, chemical and pharmaceutical resources, fish farms and such things as “seasteading” by private companies […]",
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          "ref": "1969, Saturday Review, volume 52, New York, N.Y.: Saturday Review Associates, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 52:",
          "text": "\"Seasteading\" may one day assume the pioneering role in underwater colonization that homesteading played in past settlement of the grasslands of the American West.",
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          "ref": "1977, New Age Journal, volume 3, Brookline Village, Mass.: New Age Communications, →OCLC, page 193:",
          "text": "We're a young American couple without much money who wanted to make the planet our village. Seasteading (self-sufficient boat living) was the answer.",
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          "ref": "2007, Pat Murphy, Paul Doherty, “Cold Comfort”, in Gardner Dozois, editor, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-fourth Annual Collection, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Griffin, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 295:",
          "text": "The Raft was a seasteading community, a loose affiliation of over a hundred vessels that had been converted to floating farms and cities by climate refugees from small island nations that had been wiped out by rising waters.",
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          "text": "He [Peter Thiel] has used his considerable wealth to support visionary research on anti-aging products, artificial intelligence, and \"seasteading\" (building new communities on the ocean, beyond the control of governments), among other initiatives.",
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          "ref": "2017 March, Joe Quirk, with Patri Friedman, “Home: This Isn’t Planet Earth”, in Seasteading: How Floating Nations will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians, New York, N.Y.: Free Press, →ISBN, part I (Seavilization Now), page 30:",
          "text": "As a seastead supporter wrote on one of our discussion forums, a key difference between the founders of nations and the creators of seasteads is that \"seasteading aggresses against no one. That humans may settle new territory consistent with the principle of nonaggression is a remarkable development in the human experience.\"",
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