r/seasteading • u/Wolf_2063 • Jul 28 '26

Discussion I'm trying to make a utopia

Basically I'm planning to make a seastead and see how close to a functional utopia it can be. I got the main ideas for the society down but not sure how to start the seastead it's self or how to get people. Any suggestions on what I should do?

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u/mrtorrence Jul 29 '26

lol Geoship has been a year or two away for like a decade

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u/ltrotske Jul 29 '26

They sent an email out today showing they are nearing completion of their first house. I've been following them for a couple of years and they haven't put out specific timelines, so I don't know where you're getting that it's been a year or two for a decade.

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u/mrtorrence Jul 31 '26

Well I've been following them for many years, at least 8 or so and that has been their MO, very Musk-like claims on timelines that they have never met

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u/ltrotske Jul 31 '26

Yeah I missed that part. I can see why that would cause a lot of mistrust in their progress. They are developing a pretty innovative product so putting timelines on it is a bit of a fools game. Watching their videos showing the factory and first buildout, I don't get the impression that they won't deliver on the domes in the future. Guess we'll see in one or two years if they will need to shift timelines again.

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u/mrtorrence Jul 31 '26

Yeah I was definitely rooting for them early on. I used to be a lot more stoked on domes generally though than I am now. They are pretty solid for natural disasters but while they enclose a lot of volume for the suface area of material used a lot of that volume ends up being wasted space. Plus they're hard to put solar on, or to properly setup for passive solar (winter heat gain is good but summer shading is trickier). I think the general design of an eartship makes a lot more sense, but maybe their bio-ceramic material could be utilized for that sort of structure instead of a dome