Where is John Galt when you need him ?

Yes, be wise we've been taught well.

Yes yes yes!!!

Well, there's nothing wrong with a diesel motor to get us out of the doldrums :-)

Aaaaaaarrrrrrrr, avast with the sass!

Badum cha!

Many people do and no property taxes ! Only your own rules on the water, after you get 3 miles out...we need to finish that Gulch game..

can we at least pillage somebody? I've never done that before

yes, let's go. Galt's Gulch sailing trip off on an uncharted course (Gilligan's Island theme song playing)
really, I've been looking a buying a sailboat

Aaarrrrgggg, I'm ready.. It was NMA's experience, not the license, that is too funny. I needed a good laugh today !!!

You don't need a stinkin license! I thought we were pirates?

You know why pirates are so mean? Because they just arrrrrrre!

Cool, I want you to ride with me.... I always had a motor in the boat, it's the speed thing again..

I know how to sail. I have a license.

Me, too!

I don't know, they are talking about putting communities in the ocean, seasteading. Perhaps we should grab a few pirate ships and be an army of Dagnar's ......

:) I didn't give you the negative point. A sense of humor is a must in today's world!

This is not the Gulch you're looking for. (wave of the hand, Jedi-mind trick being used)

The point of harvesting astoroids for raw material is because it is cheaper than launching from earth. The space elevator needs a cable that is strong enough.

Love the concept. It would be extraordinarily expensive with current technology, but in the future, who knows?

We first need a way to get mass (people, habitat, supplies, and equipment to bootstrap a space-based economy) into orbit cheaply. Rockets that expend 90%+ of their mass as fuel to reach orbit won't do it. We need something like a linear accelerator (and about 500 miles of right-of-way ending at a mountaintop for it to be human-survivable)

cool!