WEBVTT 00:01.840 --> 00:06.820 Hello, and welcome to this presentation on seasteading. 00:06.820 --> 00:08.520 My name is Grant Romant. 00:08.520 --> 00:10.360 I'm from Ocean Builders. 00:10.360 --> 00:15.780 And today we'll be talking about how to hack the sea pod. 00:15.820 --> 00:18.620 And the sea pod, we'll talk about what that is a little bit later. 00:18.620 --> 00:22.840 People usually ask me first, though, what is a seastead? 00:22.840 --> 00:29.480 And basically, a seastead is a home that is engineered to float on the ocean. 00:29.480 --> 00:32.420 People have been fascinated with living on the water. 00:32.420 --> 00:34.960 People have been fascinated with living on the ocean. 00:35.220 --> 00:41.800 And even the idea of building an entire city that floats on the ocean. 00:42.040 --> 00:45.100 And this has been an idea for a very long time. 00:45.100 --> 00:46.960 But no one has actually done it. 00:46.960 --> 00:49.060 No one's cracked the code on this. 00:49.060 --> 00:51.040 We've seen some beautiful images. 00:51.040 --> 00:52.820 We've seen some beautiful pictures. 00:52.820 --> 01:02.100 Like here's some conceptual drawings of images of these whole entire floating communities that were beautiful. 01:02.280 --> 01:10.540 The problem with them, the reason why this hasn't happened yet, is because this costs a lot of money to do. 01:10.540 --> 01:17.620 This is like a multi-billion dollar project just to get started, not even to really do very much at all. 01:17.620 --> 01:26.560 Building a city is a huge thing that is usually done in small increments, where you start small and then it grows bigger and bigger and bigger. 01:26.920 --> 01:31.840 And to start something on the water, it actually costs a lot more than doing it on land. 01:32.260 --> 01:36.540 And no one's really cracked the code on how to make it affordable to do. 01:36.540 --> 01:48.200 And until last year, February 3rd of 2019, something monumental happened and a huge milestone was made. 01:48.200 --> 01:55.700 And the first original prototype of the single home seastead was launched. 01:55.700 --> 01:58.620 I'll just play the video here so you can see it. 01:58.820 --> 02:04.700 This was in Thailand, 13 miles outside of the coast of Thailand by Phuket. 02:05.820 --> 02:08.500 And it was beautiful, it was amazing. 02:08.780 --> 02:16.820 Well, it was a beautiful thing, but the prototype itself was not very attractive, not very pretty. 02:18.580 --> 02:26.700 But the technology to do this is the same technology that is used on an oil rig, where you have a deep spar. 02:26.700 --> 02:31.520 You can see a metal pole going into the water and the house actually just floats on top of it. 02:31.520 --> 02:40.040 But the metal pole goes really deep into the water and creates a source of buoyancy, which pushes the house that's above the water up. 02:40.100 --> 02:43.740 And then, basically, your house is above the waves. 02:43.740 --> 02:50.180 So you don't have to worry about big waves coming and making your house move around. 02:50.180 --> 02:56.600 And it's actually very stable because of this, because you're not at the surface of the water level. 02:56.600 --> 02:59.600 So it's actually very stable and nice to live in. 02:59.600 --> 03:05.820 What I loved when I saw this was that I saw that this could be the new frontier. 03:06.400 --> 03:09.600 It's like many years ago, America was the new frontier. 03:09.600 --> 03:14.860 It was this new land to be discovered, new opportunities, incredible new opportunities. 03:15.220 --> 03:22.960 I believe that if we do this right on the ocean, that the ocean can be the new frontier. 03:22.960 --> 03:24.580 So this is really exciting. 03:24.580 --> 03:28.080 I think there's so many technologies that can come from this. 03:30.960 --> 03:38.560 So I kind of have the philosophy that we should do the ocean first and then Mars. 03:38.560 --> 03:53.100 It doesn't make any sense to spend tens of billions of dollars to send something to Mars, when we can actually, for a very small fraction of that, we can start building thriving ecosystems on the ocean today. 03:53.100 --> 03:55.540 Like right now, the technology is here. 03:56.800 --> 04:05.240 So it's really exciting because I think maybe 10 years ago, we didn't have all the technology to do this, to make this feasible. 04:05.240 --> 04:11.200 But now like all this technology is evolving, it's coming available very, very quickly. 04:11.200 --> 04:24.140 And it's to the point where we can put all these technologies together and make them work and make a home on the ocean that is affordable and is eco-restorative and has all these other incredible benefits. 04:25.600 --> 04:29.060 So I think the opportunities are very exciting. 04:29.240 --> 04:36.900 But when I first was on the original Seastead by Thailand, it was really ugly. 04:36.900 --> 04:38.040 It was a diamond in the rough. 04:38.040 --> 04:44.700 You had to have a lot of imagination to see where it could go because it was not pretty. 04:44.920 --> 04:54.260 So we've spent a lot of time since then to redesign it, to make it sexy, to make it beautiful, to make it inspiring to want to actually live there. 04:54.260 --> 05:00.840 So we have our new design model that is called the Seapod. 05:00.840 --> 05:08.400 So Seastead is a basic class of this kind of floating home idea. 05:08.520 --> 05:17.620 So with every major innovation, major change, sometimes that is such a dramatic change that it causes fear in some people. 05:17.620 --> 05:19.620 And that happened in Thailand. 05:19.620 --> 05:29.420 And if you hadn't heard, our project became very well known because the Thai Navy actually decided to invade our Seastead. 05:29.420 --> 05:33.700 And it was frontline headline news around the world. 05:33.780 --> 05:43.860 Most major newspapers, TV shows, radio programs covered the story because we were actually on the run for a long time. 05:43.860 --> 05:54.020 The Thai Navy was chasing our team and they were threatening the death penalty and life in jail and saying that this was a threat to... 05:54.440 --> 05:58.220 like this was an act of terrorism and all kinds of things. 05:58.560 --> 06:06.600 So it was... at the time it was horrible, but now in retrospect, it brought a lot of attention to the whole movement. 06:06.600 --> 06:14.320 And it's actually, I think it's helped a lot, but just, you know, while it was going through, it was kind of a little bit scary. 06:14.580 --> 06:20.500 So some of the media that's covered us is like all the big names that you would recognize and know. 06:21.360 --> 06:28.000 So we almost ended up in one of these, which is a Thai prison, which is someplace you don't want to end up. 06:28.260 --> 06:32.800 It does not look like a comfortable place to be at all. 06:32.800 --> 06:37.300 But as Chow said in the movie The Hangover, but did you die? 06:37.560 --> 06:41.820 And the answer is no, we didn't. 06:41.820 --> 06:56.180 And here is our hero picture to prove that we survived after the big rescue, which a whole book and a movie is being written about because it had all the elements of a James Bond thriller kind of movie. 06:56.180 --> 06:59.180 So it's pretty interesting what happened. 07:00.200 --> 07:02.120 So now we are in Panama. 07:02.120 --> 07:08.080 This is the location where we will be building the first community of homes. 07:08.120 --> 07:14.820 And this is the exact island that we will be on where our manufacturing plant is in construction. 07:14.920 --> 07:16.840 This is the early pictures. 07:16.840 --> 07:18.400 This was back in February. 07:18.400 --> 07:20.180 We've gone a lot further now. 07:20.180 --> 07:24.200 These pictures have not been, these are the first time these pictures are being shown. 07:24.920 --> 07:28.240 This is our manufacturing plant now, mostly built. 07:28.240 --> 07:32.840 We're still missing the front door, but that's okay because things are going on inside. 07:32.840 --> 07:41.280 So we're going to show you during the live part of the presentation here, we'll be showing you some more pictures, some of the things we've been building, some of the things we're putting in the water. 07:42.960 --> 07:47.840 And so we're and we'll talk about a lot of the technologies we're going to be developing. 07:47.840 --> 07:57.240 And that's one of the really exciting things about these, this thing, is that to be able to live on the water, we need to develop so many different kinds of technologies. 07:57.240 --> 08:08.460 And so many, we need to innovate so many different things that haven't existed before because we haven't been, we haven't had a need to live on the water and do it in a way that's eco-sustainable. 08:08.840 --> 08:17.500 Because the way we've built homes and built a life for ourselves on land has not been good for the environment. 08:17.500 --> 08:21.080 We usually clear cut a forest before we put a house up. 08:22.040 --> 08:24.700 And that's just not, not good. 08:24.700 --> 08:30.460 But when we put something in, when we build something in the water, it actually becomes a habitat for life. 08:30.460 --> 08:39.820 And we're trying to do it in a way that life can actually thrive and actually add more life to the ocean instead of damaging it. 08:40.080 --> 08:43.920 So there's a lot of really innovative technologies we're working on for the CPOD. 08:43.920 --> 08:46.880 And we're really excited about a lot of these things. 08:46.880 --> 08:50.680 We have a huge 3D printer, we'll show you some pictures of that later. 08:50.680 --> 08:54.720 It's 20 feet long by 16 feet wide and 8 feet tall. 08:54.860 --> 09:01.940 And our goal is to eventually be able to print an entire house with a 3D printer. 09:01.940 --> 09:02.940 We're not there yet. 09:02.940 --> 09:10.560 We're right now starting with printing molds and then making the houses from the molds itself. 09:11.280 --> 09:19.500 There's a lot of IoT technology we're developing, home automation for a home on the water, which is very different. 09:19.940 --> 09:23.840 We're developing hydroponics so your home can be self-sufficient. 09:24.040 --> 09:28.200 We're developing aquaculture systems, coral gardens. 09:28.200 --> 09:36.280 So you can actually, instead of having a front lawn with a garden, you'll actually have an underwater coral garden, potentially as an option. 09:37.400 --> 09:45.020 There's aquatic transport drones we're building to be able to transport garbage and take out the garbage, basically, to take out the trash. 09:45.020 --> 09:48.200 You'd have an automated drone that comes out and does that. 09:48.260 --> 09:51.120 We have desalinization technology we're developing. 09:51.440 --> 09:59.980 There's marine sensor stations we're developing so we can get advanced notice on what the weather is going to be like and what the marine conditions are like. 09:59.980 --> 10:04.000 And we can actually monitor what the conditions of the ocean are. 10:04.000 --> 10:13.200 So we can actually measure over a sustained period of time, or a long period of time, what the environmental impact of living on the water is. 10:13.460 --> 10:27.800 And we can actually show scientifically that our homes are actually helping to restore coral in the area because we're going to be doing a number of different projects to help restore the marine ecosystem. 10:30.080 --> 10:40.480 One thing is to be able to 3D print a coral design that has the optimal shape that coral polyps love to live in. 10:40.480 --> 10:50.100 And we can do that by scanning existing coral and see the exact shape of kind of like a little nook that they like to live in. 10:50.100 --> 10:53.660 So we can recreate that in 3D printing designs. 10:54.520 --> 10:56.000 Then there's other techniques. 10:56.000 --> 11:00.960 There's like five or six different techniques for doing coral restoration that we're developing as well. 11:00.960 --> 11:09.680 And we're hoping to partner with other companies that are doing these things because there's so many different things that need to be developed to make this happen. 11:09.700 --> 11:12.820 So we're kind of trying to reach out to the community. 11:12.820 --> 11:17.460 We're trying to reach out to people and say, hey, you know, this is the new frontier. 11:17.460 --> 11:30.460 I think this is the most exciting thing humanity has on the go right now that is possible and feasible for anyone to just say, I want to get involved and actually make it happen. 11:30.500 --> 11:32.040 And it's feasible. 11:32.040 --> 11:36.900 It's not like doing a startup and going to Mars. 11:36.900 --> 11:39.780 That's a massive project. 11:39.780 --> 11:41.540 It takes a lot of money. 11:41.540 --> 11:43.300 This is something we can do. 11:43.300 --> 11:47.140 We can actually decentralize a lot of the development of this technology. 11:47.140 --> 11:57.640 So people around the world that are right now on lockdown maybe and don't have a lot to do can actually find ways of contributing to this project. 11:57.660 --> 12:00.780 So that brings me to something that I'm really excited. 12:00.780 --> 12:09.660 We're announcing it first here on this conference is that we are releasing all of our technology. 12:09.660 --> 12:20.120 We're releasing all of the programs we're doing and we're releasing the designs of our seapods, all the software and releasing it to be open source. 12:20.220 --> 12:23.260 And we're doing this because we want this to happen. 12:23.260 --> 12:27.400 We are not doing this for any other reason than we are passionate about it. 12:27.400 --> 12:27.980 We love it. 12:27.980 --> 12:39.460 We love the idea of being able to live on the ocean, being able to open this new frontier, being able to develop new technologies, eco-sustainable technologies, marine restoration technologies. 12:39.960 --> 12:43.340 And all the other things that need to be developed to make this happen. 12:43.340 --> 12:44.600 It's really exciting. 12:45.160 --> 12:49.900 We're all just... there's a lot of... there's a very big community of seasteaders. 12:50.060 --> 12:55.040 There's actually a big community at DEF CON that's like big on seasteading. 12:55.040 --> 13:00.280 But outside of that as well, there's a huge community that are really passionate about seeing this happen. 13:00.280 --> 13:10.840 So we have like a decentralized team all over the world that we're trying to get them to collaborate and get them to focus on different areas of development. 13:10.840 --> 13:22.560 And if we can do this, I think we can make like 20 years of development progress in the next couple of years if we can do this right, if we can really focus and find a way to make it happen. 13:22.560 --> 13:25.500 It's really exciting time for us. 13:25.500 --> 13:33.800 And we hope to kind of put the call out to the community here and say, well, who wants to be involved in this? 13:33.800 --> 13:35.480 Who wants to help out with this? 13:35.480 --> 13:38.180 Who wants to contribute? 13:38.180 --> 13:54.660 Whether it's just writing a little bit of software code or maybe making a design for a floating drone or your own floating house design that you think might be better than what we're doing. 13:54.660 --> 13:56.220 And you can actually take our designs. 13:56.220 --> 13:57.480 You can take our software code. 13:57.480 --> 14:04.620 You can take our designs that I've been sweating over for the last year plus. 14:04.860 --> 14:07.740 And you can say, well, that's really beautiful. 14:07.740 --> 14:08.540 I love it. 14:08.540 --> 14:11.600 But I want it to be longer. 14:11.600 --> 14:12.580 I want it to be taller. 14:12.580 --> 14:14.980 I want it to be a different shape. 14:14.980 --> 14:16.920 I want whatever it is. 14:16.920 --> 14:21.720 You can take our CAD drawings, which are being... everything's in the process of being uploaded. 14:21.720 --> 14:29.200 Hopefully by the time this presentation starts, a lot of our code is going to be on our GitHub account. 14:29.200 --> 14:37.640 So you'll be able to go there and download code and start playing with things, which is what we want to see happen. 14:37.640 --> 14:39.340 We want to see this progress. 14:39.340 --> 14:40.660 We want to see this move. 14:40.660 --> 14:43.620 And it's just really exciting. 14:43.620 --> 14:45.160 I think we can do a lot. 14:45.160 --> 14:52.860 And I'm kind of inspired by the idea of this lockdown for a lot of people has been horrible. 14:52.880 --> 14:55.220 It's been kind of boring. 14:55.220 --> 14:59.060 It's been a time of frustration. 14:59.060 --> 15:02.740 And I think we can maybe turn things around. 15:02.740 --> 15:10.920 And what if we could mobilize millions and tens of millions of people around the world to actually do something productive with their time? 15:10.920 --> 15:30.260 If we had millions of people contributing just a couple hours a day to different projects that they're passionate about, put all that together, and we could have an incredibly different world, new ideas, new techniques, new things that we weren't even thinking about before. 15:30.260 --> 15:32.440 They can develop very quickly. 15:33.160 --> 15:39.340 But we have to just try to find a way to focus their energies into something that is productive. 15:39.340 --> 15:55.680 And I think we have a track here for developing technologies on the ocean to build floating homes and a floating ecosystem that can thrive and has a lot of potential, I think, for humanity. 15:55.680 --> 15:57.120 So I'm really excited about it. 15:57.120 --> 16:07.820 I'm really excited about opening this up to the open source community and having you guys take what we've been looking at and what we've been trying to do and what the Seasteading community in general has been trying to do. 16:07.820 --> 16:10.740 And we want to move this forward. 16:11.140 --> 16:18.500 So I invite you to take part in the whole conversation we're going to be having here today. 16:18.560 --> 16:23.800 We're going to be sharing a lot of things we haven't shared publicly before and giving a lot of things away. 16:23.920 --> 16:27.760 So yeah, we'd love to have you involved. 16:27.760 --> 16:30.300 Yes, we have mobile app. 16:30.980 --> 16:33.420 All the code for mobile apps is being uploaded. 16:33.420 --> 16:36.540 It's probably going to be here by the time we start this presentation. 16:36.680 --> 16:45.100 The backend software for controlling seapods, controlling floating homes is all going to be there. 16:45.100 --> 16:50.500 IoT software, it's still in development, but we might have something to upload by the time this conference starts. 16:50.500 --> 16:51.900 IoT hardware. 16:52.560 --> 16:54.740 We have all kinds of things coming together. 16:54.740 --> 17:00.880 So we'll be posting our plans for hydroponic system that is really cool. 17:00.880 --> 17:06.840 I think it's a super high yield technique for growing food that I'm really excited about. 17:06.840 --> 17:19.260 We'll be putting, as soon as we have Gerber files for the actual circuit design for our home automation hardware, we will be publishing that as well. 17:19.260 --> 17:20.920 So it's very exciting. 17:20.920 --> 17:22.500 Lots of stuff going on. 17:22.500 --> 17:26.580 So CAD drawings for all our models, CAD drawings for our boats. 17:26.780 --> 17:30.020 And once again, we just want to open it up. 17:30.020 --> 17:43.400 And if you have a better design or newer design, or maybe there's parts that we're missing that need to be designed, we're just asking for people to, if they're passionate about this, to contribute and see where we can take this. 17:43.400 --> 17:46.220 I think we can take this to something really incredible. 17:46.220 --> 17:56.060 So we're going to start now a movie that we made to kind of show what's been happening with Seasteading. 17:56.060 --> 18:02.300 What happened with our event in Thailand and the whole controversy that happened over there. 18:02.300 --> 18:05.720 So this is a little presentation that kind of takes you through all that. 18:05.720 --> 18:06.580 So hope you enjoy it. 18:06.580 --> 18:08.980 Then we'll come back and we'll go into the live section. 18:08.980 --> 18:12.080 Welcome to Ixli, or Seastead. 18:12.200 --> 18:16.640 So you come in from this beautiful entrance. 18:17.340 --> 18:30.880 Here's the kitchen, where Nadia does all of her magic. 18:30.880 --> 18:32.900 Anything special about the kitchen? 18:33.380 --> 18:35.960 Just fresh water. 18:36.220 --> 18:37.600 No problem. 18:37.600 --> 18:43.420 We could refill as needed, but we've never had to do that because we have a water maker. 18:45.800 --> 18:48.840 This is the big kitchen table. 18:48.900 --> 18:53.180 Underneath is actually where this bar entrance goes. 18:53.320 --> 18:57.660 I would lift it to show you, but there's food all over it. 18:57.660 --> 19:00.220 We have a nice little electric room. 19:00.700 --> 19:03.000 Understand electricity. 19:05.200 --> 19:14.400 There's a lot of little hidden storage all over this. 19:16.040 --> 19:24.000 It's a good size with a little bin closet. 19:24.000 --> 19:25.960 A nice little bathroom. 19:25.960 --> 19:31.200 A nice little shower. 19:31.200 --> 19:33.900 Pretty decent size. 19:34.980 --> 19:41.240 It should be great for all these small home welders out here. 19:41.240 --> 19:42.980 So beautiful. 19:44.580 --> 19:45.980 Yeah, alright. 19:46.160 --> 19:48.720 We've got some islands off in the distance. 19:48.860 --> 19:51.300 So that's only, he said, 20 miles out. 19:51.300 --> 19:56.940 You can go and spend a day on the island if you're a little tired of just floating around. 19:57.940 --> 20:00.060 So plenty of the sea out here. 20:00.300 --> 20:02.300 All within a short sailing distance. 20:02.540 --> 20:03.440 Alright, that's it. 20:41.240 --> 20:48.480 I read an article in the Thai media saying, talked about the sea stead. 20:49.660 --> 20:55.440 Basically right out of the bat saying it was a threat to national security. 20:56.420 --> 21:06.660 I can't see how they would see a loving couple living in their home on the water as a threat to national security. 21:06.660 --> 21:10.480 We understand how the media works in Thailand. 21:10.740 --> 21:13.800 They're basically a mouthpiece for the government. 21:14.260 --> 21:20.700 So anything the government needs to do, they just use the media to express it. 21:20.700 --> 21:27.380 Basically set the narrative so that the people know where they stand. 21:28.180 --> 21:31.800 There's some contacts we have with the military. 21:32.180 --> 21:33.460 We contacted them. 21:33.460 --> 21:39.120 They said, yep, they're all up in arms about your sea stead. 21:40.420 --> 21:43.260 The military is at the top level. 21:43.860 --> 21:45.900 They're beating their chests. 21:46.560 --> 21:49.100 They're trying to one-up each other. 21:49.100 --> 21:53.480 Who can shoot it down the best. 21:53.480 --> 21:58.240 Just in the middle of the night we were trekking through mud. 21:58.300 --> 22:00.840 Pushing our knees out at low tide. 22:00.920 --> 22:04.800 Trying to quietly get out of Phuket. 22:04.800 --> 22:08.080 It was all, all stories were BS. 22:08.380 --> 22:13.420 The way things work in Thailand is it's a military dictatorship. 22:13.420 --> 22:22.920 So if they want somebody, if somebody's giving them trouble, or they think they're giving them trouble, they just take them out. 22:22.920 --> 22:26.520 So we're not going to take the chance. 22:28.420 --> 22:30.280 There's no due process. 22:30.280 --> 22:36.440 They obviously displayed by taking out our sea stead. 22:36.780 --> 22:37.880 Destroyed our home. 22:37.920 --> 22:40.980 I had everything I owned there. 22:40.980 --> 22:46.600 I just have a bag with some clothes that I was in Phuket. 22:46.600 --> 22:48.460 Unfortunately I was in Phuket at the time. 22:48.460 --> 22:52.460 Otherwise they probably just taken us down with a sea stead. 22:52.620 --> 22:59.020 Chad Elwartowski's sister says sea steading has been a dream for him, but one that has now turned into a nightmare. 22:59.020 --> 23:00.740 Oh my God, I'm sick. 23:00.740 --> 23:03.060 I'm just so sick about it. 23:03.060 --> 23:04.400 I just want him home. 23:04.460 --> 23:07.980 Family and friends of Chad Elwartowski fear his life is on the line. 23:07.980 --> 23:16.540 He and his girlfriend are now on the run after Thai police officials accused them of essentially trying to lay claim to Thai territory with their floating house. 23:16.540 --> 23:20.220 It all of a sudden changed to where he became a fugitive. 23:20.220 --> 23:23.660 It was almost like you're reading something out of a movie. 23:23.660 --> 23:28.240 My greatest fear is that he's going to end up killed through all this. 23:28.240 --> 23:29.880 They were just living there. 23:29.880 --> 23:30.560 They didn't build it. 23:30.560 --> 23:31.660 They didn't buy it. 23:31.660 --> 23:33.920 They were living on the sea stead. 23:34.360 --> 23:39.100 But now they are hunted as criminals. 23:39.100 --> 23:42.760 I used to FaceTime him and be able to see my brother and now I can't. 23:42.760 --> 23:44.780 I can't see where he is. 23:44.780 --> 23:46.120 I can't talk to him. 23:46.400 --> 23:47.220 It's killing me. 23:47.220 --> 23:48.040 I'm sorry. 23:49.540 --> 23:50.360 It's hard. 23:50.360 --> 23:52.940 And we're also trying to communicate with Chad ourselves. 23:52.940 --> 23:55.440 We'll let you know if he's able to reply. 23:55.440 --> 23:57.320 Kimberly Craig, 7 Action News. 23:59.180 --> 24:00.740 She's Thai. 24:02.000 --> 24:07.520 So she's her family. 24:08.160 --> 24:11.340 Her son was supposed to start school this week. 24:13.440 --> 24:15.420 She's been trying to sign him up. 24:15.420 --> 24:19.920 Had to go in this week to go take care of that but she can't. 24:19.920 --> 24:24.160 This is all messed up. 24:24.160 --> 24:25.400 The doubles are resolved. 24:25.400 --> 24:27.040 The sea steading has to happen. 24:28.620 --> 24:33.680 We're obviously still... I mean this week was a whole hit on freedom. 24:34.720 --> 24:38.140 We need to show that we can have new governments. 24:38.940 --> 24:42.260 We were free on the sea stead. 24:42.260 --> 24:43.980 We lived just for a moment. 24:45.040 --> 24:46.600 And it was great. 24:47.140 --> 24:52.400 When I die at my funeral I'd like them to show that I lived a life. 25:03.540 --> 25:05.160 So far we're safe. 25:06.160 --> 25:07.480 We're here for our lives. 25:07.480 --> 25:10.840 Nadia and I are very worried. 25:12.480 --> 25:14.260 It's been hard for both of us. 25:17.120 --> 25:19.180 So far we're still alive. 25:19.180 --> 25:21.540 That's all we're trying to do is stay alive. 25:27.400 --> 25:28.940 Hey, hello everyone. 25:29.260 --> 25:42.800 Well, so hopefully that gives you a good overview of what we are doing, what we're about, and just kind of the plan A to B from a very high level. 25:42.800 --> 25:49.320 But excited to be here today to be able to speak with you all and share with you our vision of what we're trying to do. 25:49.320 --> 25:53.460 Like I said at the beginning, we see this as the new frontier. 25:53.460 --> 26:05.940 This is almost an undiscovered country because people have never really been able to build a home that can float on the water, that can be in international waters, on the ocean. 26:06.140 --> 26:08.840 And so we kind of cracked the code a little bit with this. 26:08.920 --> 26:28.180 And what I'm really excited about is just in the last week, like I shared just before, we are now announcing that we are open sourcing all the technology, all the software, all the hardware, everything we're going to be developing for making this happen is going to be open source. 26:28.180 --> 26:31.160 And it's on our GitHub right now. 26:31.340 --> 26:33.300 Hope you guys can hear me right now. 26:33.820 --> 26:41.560 And if you have any questions, post it in either the general text area or the Seasteading text area. 26:41.560 --> 26:47.520 And I'll try to answer your questions or whatever you have while we're on live here. 26:47.520 --> 26:50.960 And I'm going to share my screen. 26:52.540 --> 26:56.200 And let's see right here. 26:58.840 --> 27:01.040 Okay, hopefully you can see my screen. 27:01.040 --> 27:04.760 So like I showed earlier, this is the original prototype. 27:05.260 --> 27:18.940 It wasn't anything special to look at, but when we were sailing towards it for the first time and we saw it there, first it was off in the distance, there's this little white dot, and it was just getting bigger and bigger and bigger. 27:18.940 --> 27:34.840 And it was just, it was an amazing thing to be there because it felt like this represented something like a whole new thing that's starting from scratch, like the whole new frontier was starting from this just one little dot. 27:35.060 --> 27:40.200 And it was really exciting to approach it and see it getting bigger and bigger. 27:40.200 --> 27:45.060 And then to actually be there and then to actually step foot on the Seastead. 27:45.180 --> 27:47.680 That was pretty amazing. 27:48.320 --> 28:01.460 I was involved in a project called Freedom Ship about 20 years ago, which was a project to build a floating ship that would travel all over the world every two years and stop at different ports of call as it went along. 28:01.460 --> 28:05.580 So it would stop around different cities and different countries around the world. 28:05.580 --> 28:10.600 So I thought that was just the most amazing thing because it felt like, wow, this was really an amazing... 28:11.180 --> 28:16.880 you get to live at home on your, you know, one of the 20,000 condos that would be on this floating ship. 28:17.600 --> 28:22.760 But you could also see the world, which I thought was a really fantastic idea. 28:22.840 --> 28:26.820 The problem with that is it was going to cost like seven or eight billion dollars to start. 28:26.820 --> 28:35.580 So it just couldn't get off the ground because that's so much momentum that you need to do to get to that point that it's just really hard to do that. 28:35.580 --> 28:40.100 I mean, who has seven or eight billion dollars hanging around to start that kind of a project? 28:40.380 --> 28:47.980 So what I loved about this when I saw this was that this only cost $150,000 to build the first project. 28:47.980 --> 28:50.020 That's just building one. 28:50.120 --> 28:58.560 So the idea was if we built like 20, the cost would go down and be even more affordable for people. 29:00.360 --> 29:09.880 And so when I first got involved, the units looked like this, and that was not very attractive, and it's not something that really inspires people to want to live there. 29:09.880 --> 29:24.880 So we felt it was really important to... well, I felt it was really important to make it something that when you looked at it, you said, wow, that's beautiful, or that's amazing, or that kind of inspires you to want to visit, to be able to experience it, 29:24.880 --> 29:36.080 to see it for yourself with your own eyes, or to just walk on it and see what it's like, and check it out, and just inspire some curiosity. 29:36.420 --> 29:46.820 So that was kind of started a whole... it's been like a year and a half of major redesign that we've been doing. 29:46.820 --> 30:02.000 So now the houses kind of look like... it's the same kind of general structure, but now it's like something with Jetsons, rather than something out of, I don't know, something much more prehistoric. 30:02.000 --> 30:08.620 So I think we have a beautiful design now, and so we are in Panama, like I shared. 30:08.780 --> 30:13.780 This is one of our renderings for the new design. 30:13.780 --> 30:16.060 I think it's beautiful. 30:16.060 --> 30:18.100 Some people love it, some people don't. 30:18.100 --> 30:23.680 But I think most people think it's pretty darn interesting and looks a lot better than our project. 30:23.680 --> 30:41.920 So I think it's... I really wanted to capture the idea that this is a futuristic thing, that this can be a futuristic and technological achievement, because the technology that goes into making this is very, very simple, but it just hasn't been done before. 30:41.920 --> 30:48.020 We've had this technology to make this happen for the structure for a very long time. 30:48.020 --> 30:58.920 It's the same structural backbone as making the oil rig, where you have this big hole that goes into the ground, or not into the ground, sorry, into the water. 30:58.920 --> 31:03.640 It's kind of like when you have a wine bottle, you throw it in the water, it'll just float. 31:04.040 --> 31:11.560 And then it stays afloat, because it'll just stay there forever. 31:11.560 --> 31:15.480 But it kind of bops around and it's not very stable. 31:15.480 --> 31:22.120 So what we do to make this very stable is we put a very heavy weight underneath, very far below the water. 31:22.320 --> 31:27.160 And that's about 100 tons of weight, like 100 tons, that's a lot of weight. 31:27.300 --> 31:29.740 You wouldn't want to have that fall on your foot. 31:30.360 --> 31:34.280 So it's very heavy, and so that makes it very stable. 31:34.280 --> 31:39.260 And then we tie it down with three mooring lines, so it's locked in place. 31:39.260 --> 31:50.560 It's very adverse to bad weather, because normally, when you're in the water, waves come along, and your boat is moved around a lot by the waves. 31:50.560 --> 31:59.840 But in our case, you can see from the designs here that the house is about two and a half meters off the water, so the waves pass it. 32:00.140 --> 32:07.400 There's only a little bit of interaction between the waves and the poles, because it's just a fairly thin area, and the waves just kind of go around. 32:07.400 --> 32:11.320 So we're excited about it, and we're building in Panama. 32:11.900 --> 32:17.360 Like I said, we're open sourcing, which is something we're announcing officially here. 32:17.360 --> 32:22.500 We've started getting all our code on our GitHub account, so you can go there right now. 32:22.500 --> 32:32.340 We have software for mobile apps that will be able to control your smart home, your floating smart home. 32:33.960 --> 32:43.520 Actually, our code is written in Flutter, so it can be used for both iOS, Android, as well as for web apps. 32:43.580 --> 32:47.100 So it's a really nice little platform, so it goes all three ways. 32:48.420 --> 32:50.940 And so right now, we have the beta there. 32:50.940 --> 32:55.180 It's released into the Android store, but not yet into the Apple store. 32:55.240 --> 32:58.520 So you can go there on the Android store, if you have an Android, and check it out. 32:58.520 --> 33:01.820 I think you just search for Ocean Builders, and you can find it. 33:01.820 --> 33:08.860 But on our GitHub, we created several different repos for different projects that we're really excited about. 33:08.860 --> 33:11.540 And I'll show you some of the projects we're really excited about. 33:12.120 --> 33:22.560 And for anyone that signs up to do any of our challenges, we're going to give you some exclusive first-look details on some of the things we're working on. 33:22.760 --> 33:29.060 There are some things breaking right now that I can't talk about yet, but should be able to in about two weeks. 33:29.060 --> 33:35.320 So anyone that signs up for our challenge, you'll get first access to some of those details. 33:35.320 --> 33:41.240 And my mind is blown by all the stuff that's going on right now. 33:41.960 --> 33:51.420 We're making more progress in the last two weeks than most of the seasteading history has made in the last 10 years. 33:51.420 --> 33:57.820 It's really exciting to see, and it's really moving fast, so it's like trying to keep up with it. 33:57.820 --> 34:15.720 So part of the reason I wanted to do this conference was to reach out to people like you guys that are passionate about building really cool things, hacking the future, hacking technology, and finding ways to make technology work better for us. 34:15.800 --> 34:19.500 And that can be in so many different kinds of ways. 34:19.500 --> 34:34.760 That can be from writing software, hardware, figuring out new hardware, and building different devices that have never really existed before because there hasn't been so much of a need. 34:35.120 --> 34:46.200 We've never had a floating city before, so this will create a whole new wave of entrepreneurism that can create all new kinds of technologies. 34:46.200 --> 34:59.600 And I think a lot of the technologies that will have to be invented to live on this kind of floating future would be a pretty breakthrough and pretty amazing. 34:59.600 --> 35:00.740 Oh , there's some text over there. 35:00.740 --> 35:02.900 I'll see if you guys have any questions. 35:11.840 --> 35:12.680 Waterworld. 35:14.900 --> 35:18.120 So some people say, yes, this is like Waterworld. 35:18.120 --> 35:23.160 And I kind of reply to that, this is more like the Jetsons on the water. 35:23.160 --> 35:25.580 So it's protecting from that. 35:26.120 --> 35:35.220 So probably a stupid question, why have the log smaller than the part where people live, what purpose the log serves? 35:36.520 --> 35:38.340 I'm not sure. 35:39.960 --> 35:42.100 Not sure what you're talking about. 35:46.880 --> 35:51.860 Relationship between... I'm just going to take some live questions here while you guys are asking them. 35:51.860 --> 36:00.540 I was wondering a bit about the relationship with the local communities and areas you're building in, for example, outreach and support or support. 36:00.540 --> 36:05.440 So that's something we're really trying to emphasize a lot this year. 36:05.800 --> 36:11.560 Now, because we've learned what not to do in the past, and we're trying to improve and make things better. 36:11.560 --> 36:14.340 So we're actually in Panama, like I said. 36:14.340 --> 36:21.420 And when this whole pandemic started, we have like some very large scale 3D printers. 36:21.420 --> 36:27.980 One is 20 feet long by 16 feet wide and 8 feet tall, made by RectorBot.com. 36:28.080 --> 36:31.060 And then we have another one that's one meter by one meter by one meter. 36:31.060 --> 36:32.640 So they're huge. 36:32.640 --> 36:38.700 So we wanted to see if there's something we could do with printing emergency medical supplies. 36:38.700 --> 36:44.380 So we're actually working with the government of Panama to help 3D print emergency medical supplies. 36:44.380 --> 36:47.020 We were on it right away at the beginning of the pandemic. 36:47.620 --> 36:55.120 The government took a little bit of time to set up all the regulatory procedures for how things would need to be certified for health use and all that. 36:55.120 --> 36:56.880 So that took them a little bit of time. 36:56.960 --> 36:59.420 But I think they're almost ready to go. 36:59.520 --> 37:02.420 So if there is a second wave, we're all set up. 37:02.460 --> 37:05.840 All the health stuff is all ready to go. 37:05.840 --> 37:19.060 So we're ready to start going into production with making emergency medical supplies or parts for hospitals, for machines in hospitals or anywhere else that they might need supplies. 37:19.060 --> 37:21.980 So we'll be able to help out there. 37:22.440 --> 37:24.440 We're creating a lot of jobs. 37:24.440 --> 37:26.700 We're creating high tech jobs as well. 37:26.720 --> 37:32.020 And we're bringing foreign investment into the country. 37:32.040 --> 37:34.580 So we're doing a lot. 37:34.580 --> 37:42.860 We also several times every couple weekends, we do deliver food to communities that have been impacted by coronavirus. 37:43.100 --> 37:46.820 So we're definitely doing as much outreach as we can. 37:47.800 --> 37:50.740 So 100 tons is feasible to move. 37:54.060 --> 37:57.240 There's a couple different versions we're working on. 37:57.240 --> 38:03.980 There's the deep water spar model that goes about 35 meters deep total. 38:03.980 --> 38:07.980 And that has 100 ton weight at the bottom. 38:07.980 --> 38:09.960 So that's not very easy to move at all. 38:10.480 --> 38:13.020 The other one is a shallow water model. 38:13.020 --> 38:15.880 And that is only about five meters deep. 38:15.880 --> 38:18.460 And that's much easier to move. 38:19.420 --> 38:22.000 They can all be moved, but they're not really made to be moved. 38:22.000 --> 38:26.520 Now, we are considering designs that would allow you to fully move your house. 38:26.560 --> 38:28.700 But that's an experimental thing. 38:28.700 --> 38:33.080 We're actively building tests and prototypes right now to test that. 38:33.580 --> 38:34.760 So it's kind of cool. 38:34.760 --> 38:37.160 Actually, I think I have a picture of those. 38:38.640 --> 38:39.740 One of the prototypes. 38:39.740 --> 38:44.460 This is actually one of the prototypes of the movable version. 38:44.480 --> 38:46.820 This would be the hull that goes under the water. 38:47.080 --> 38:49.220 Which is kind of an interesting design. 38:49.760 --> 38:51.160 Oh, here it is, actually. 38:51.320 --> 39:00.800 So you can't really see too much, but this is a small 1-8th scale size of just a transport vessel using the same technology. 39:00.800 --> 39:05.060 So instead of having a normal-shaped boat, this actually is called a swath. 39:05.060 --> 39:07.020 So it has two hulls that go under the water. 39:07.020 --> 39:08.580 So this is one hull here. 39:08.920 --> 39:11.900 And the other one's on the other side, kind of out of focus here. 39:11.900 --> 39:13.960 Then you have these arms that go down. 39:14.080 --> 39:17.220 And the water line would be about here and here. 39:17.580 --> 39:24.240 And then the base, the house, or the vessel, the boat, where people, passengers would sit, would be on top. 39:24.320 --> 39:26.800 So it kind of rides above... it's the same kind of idea. 39:26.800 --> 39:28.340 It rides above the waves. 39:28.340 --> 39:36.980 And the reason we make this is that we found when we had the first seastead, it was hard to get from point A to point B when there's big waves. 39:37.140 --> 39:42.280 And it was hard to be able to go to your house and pick people up or whatever. 39:42.280 --> 39:49.740 We designed this kind of craft to be able to break through very high waves and still get places where the weather's not so good. 39:51.420 --> 39:53.840 Let's see... we have some more questions. 39:56.300 --> 39:59.060 Is it possible without polluting the ocean? 39:59.060 --> 39:59.820 Yes. 39:59.900 --> 40:06.340 Our first seastead in Thailand was... it was 13 miles from shore. 40:06.520 --> 40:11.840 And what's interesting was when you're that far away from shore, there's no life in the water. 40:11.840 --> 40:15.600 People think that the ocean is filled with life, but there's really not a lot of life. 40:15.620 --> 40:23.520 There is... it's just water mostly, because there's no place for water, for life to congregate around. 40:23.520 --> 40:29.940 So we put our spa into the water, and two months later, there's thousands and thousands of fish around. 40:29.940 --> 40:32.660 It was just... there was a lot. 40:32.660 --> 40:37.000 It was hard to... you couldn't look anywhere and not see thousands of fish. 40:37.080 --> 40:38.540 We have video of that. 40:38.540 --> 40:40.360 It was pretty astounding. 40:40.960 --> 40:43.160 So, can you do it without polluting? 40:43.160 --> 40:50.780 We're actually creating an environment for fish, so we actually are building our homes in a way that is eco-restorative. 40:50.780 --> 40:58.580 We have some ways of composting our toilet water, so it actually becomes compost. 40:58.860 --> 41:05.680 There's some methods of using electrocoagulation for treating ray water instead of using other processes. 41:05.720 --> 41:15.740 Electrocoagulation is a fantastic technology that's not really used very much, and we have a version of it that I think is an improvement of what else is being used. 41:17.780 --> 41:19.760 So, let's see. 41:19.760 --> 41:21.700 Jump through some other things here. 41:22.680 --> 41:24.900 Some other questions here. 41:27.520 --> 41:33.600 Okay, there's... oh, thanks, Pierce Nichols, for the swath link there. 41:36.840 --> 41:40.260 Okay, so we have some projects. 41:40.260 --> 41:41.740 I'd like to just go over them. 41:41.740 --> 41:43.740 We're actually going through time here pretty quickly. 41:43.740 --> 41:46.160 So, I'll give you a bit of an overview. 41:46.160 --> 41:47.720 This is our manufacturing plant. 41:47.720 --> 41:52.000 We started building just before... this was like early February. 41:52.160 --> 42:00.880 We just started putting the concrete in for the bases for the poles for the frame for the manufacturing plant. 42:01.280 --> 42:06.480 Now, this was about two weeks ago, this picture, so now the plant is up, which is... yay! 42:06.480 --> 42:09.920 We got some work done even during a global lockdown. 42:09.920 --> 42:15.780 We did little pieces here and there, but it was a lot slower, obviously. 42:15.780 --> 42:20.720 So, we're about three months behind, but we're forging ahead as fast as we can. 42:21.040 --> 42:23.560 This is a pretty huge building. 42:23.840 --> 42:33.180 It will house two CPODs without the pole, of course, inside at a time, so we can produce two at a time at this location. 42:33.180 --> 42:35.720 Here's a view of the inside. 42:35.720 --> 42:43.620 This is our roller machine, so our round spars that go into the water that you saw in the pictures, those will be rolled on this machine. 42:43.760 --> 42:57.480 You put these big slabs of flat steel, and it goes through and rolls it, and then it bends it a little bit, and then you go through it again and bends it, bends it, bends it, and you keep on putting it through until you get the right curvature on the steel. 42:57.520 --> 43:04.140 I haven't seen it in person myself, because I'm in Canada right now, because I left before the lockdown, so I can get some things done up here. 43:04.140 --> 43:07.320 We have a full team down in Panama working as well. 43:07.480 --> 43:13.760 This is our main engineer, Rüdiger Koch, who is a German aerospace engineer. 43:13.760 --> 43:30.740 He started Seasteading because he wanted to go to space, and he decided that he needed Seasteads to be able to have as a platform to observe the places where he would be launching his vehicles into space, or things that he would be sending up into space, 43:30.740 --> 43:33.180 so he's definitely a pioneer. 43:33.180 --> 43:40.820 So this is a view of him looking through one of the molds that goes to the central spar inside the house. 43:41.820 --> 43:43.600 Here's some more images. 43:45.840 --> 43:51.520 And let's see, this is our development site where we're actually going to be putting the homes into the water. 43:51.940 --> 43:56.500 This is our... we set up a technology incubator, so... 43:56.500 --> 43:59.380 I don't know if this video will play. 44:02.400 --> 44:02.880 Then... 44:04.480 --> 44:13.460 Yeah, so we set up a technology incubator where we have people from all over the world coming down to help us figure out really cool technologies to build and to put into these. 44:13.460 --> 44:17.720 We have all kinds of really fantastic technologies that I'm really super excited about. 44:17.860 --> 44:19.520 I'll talk about those soon. 44:19.520 --> 44:25.900 This is a video of me swimming around the underwater spar of the original prototype in Thailand. 44:25.900 --> 44:32.500 And there's just thousands of fish, even more and more and more as the video goes on. 44:32.840 --> 44:35.640 So I can't jump ahead on the way it's lined up. 44:36.200 --> 44:38.180 It's pretty cool. 44:38.440 --> 44:43.400 This is us in Panama, we're launching another prototype. 44:43.400 --> 44:47.220 This is a one third scale, but one third scale is actually very large still. 44:47.320 --> 44:49.060 So we're towing it out to the site. 44:49.200 --> 44:50.800 And here we're standing on it. 44:52.880 --> 44:55.180 And so this is the spar. 44:55.180 --> 45:01.020 So the full scale size would be three times wider, three times taller, three times longer. 45:01.020 --> 45:05.660 This is just the pole and then the base to test some engineering principles. 45:07.480 --> 45:13.160 So I'm going to jump to talk about some of the projects we are really passionate about. 45:13.160 --> 45:16.040 One is the Aqua Boy, we're calling it. 45:16.360 --> 45:19.540 Names may change, but we'll post the exact details of this. 45:19.540 --> 45:24.560 I guess we'll coordinate with DEF CON about all the details of this. 45:24.560 --> 45:26.520 But this is the basic idea. 45:26.680 --> 45:33.600 The vision of what it might look like and all the specifications may change and be modified and refined. 45:33.600 --> 45:39.160 But the idea is that we'd have this like a water boy that would just collect data. 45:39.540 --> 45:51.920 And data for us is really important because if there's a big storm brewing a couple miles away, we might want to know, we might want to get back to our seastead and just prepare it for rough weather. 45:51.920 --> 45:54.440 Or do whatever we need to do. 45:54.440 --> 46:00.380 Or if we're out fishing nearby, we might want to go home and tie up the boats or something like that. 46:00.380 --> 46:10.120 So we'd like to have a remote beacon that can check weather, check wave heights, see if there's some big huge rogue wave coming our way. 46:10.120 --> 46:16.680 We'll be able to monitor weather at different locations so it can check wave height. 46:16.680 --> 46:33.660 So movement from this flat average sea level and then if the sensor goes up 2-3 feet, then goes down 2-3 feet below the horizon, then we know the wave height is like 4 feet. 46:33.660 --> 46:41.560 And we'll know the time between the maximum heights, between the height and then when it goes to the lowest point to the highest point. 46:41.560 --> 46:50.140 So we'll be able to measure the time in between the period, the wave period, the wave length as well, because we'll know the time in between. 46:50.400 --> 46:52.540 So we can get some really valuable data. 46:52.980 --> 46:56.900 So we can collect data underneath the water as well as above the water. 46:56.900 --> 47:12.520 We can collect turbidity levels, oxygen levels, pH levels, all kinds of really cool things we can collect. 47:12.520 --> 47:22.200 We can even have cameras under there and collect data on nearby ecosystems and see what the coral is like there and just monitor over time. 47:22.200 --> 47:32.800 We can have some instruments on the top to measure air temperature and whatever other factors, humidity or whatever. 47:32.800 --> 47:50.360 And then what's really exciting about this is also we may look at going into new areas we've never been into before and we might put these buoys, areas that we've never been that we want to look at, maybe for putting a whole community there in five years or in two years. 47:50.360 --> 47:59.860 But we can put a buoy there and collect data for a year and just see what the average conditions are throughout a year or two of collecting data. 47:59.860 --> 48:01.200 Like, is that a good place to be? 48:01.200 --> 48:07.540 Are the waves usually good there, but then there's some crazy wave that really makes it not a nice place to live? 48:08.700 --> 48:15.920 And we can get some really good valuable data from that for ourselves, for where we might want to use to do sea study. 48:15.980 --> 48:29.260 But maybe there's also useful data we can collect for environmental purposes, environmental monitoring, share it with organizations that track the effect of different water temperatures on coral. 48:29.260 --> 48:37.420 We can have cameras and see what the effect is of different water temperatures and different water conditions on coral in the area. 48:37.420 --> 48:40.500 So we can do some really cool things with this data. 48:40.500 --> 48:50.480 And if we had like 10 of these all over Panama where we're located, then we can maybe crunch it with AI and get some really, really cool, useful information. 48:57.180 --> 48:59.780 The aqua buoy would be geostationary. 48:59.780 --> 49:07.920 So we'd ideally like to hold it in place and we'd have one of our engineers figure out what the best way of doing that is. 49:09.220 --> 49:19.380 Yes, so we have a signup page pinned on the Seasteading chat on our channel here. 49:19.380 --> 49:20.600 So sign up there. 49:20.600 --> 49:24.680 We have tons of projects that we're very excited about. 49:25.880 --> 49:29.500 We're going to pick a winner for all these different projects. 49:29.500 --> 49:33.740 We're going to, I guess, we'll pick that next year at DEFCON in Vegas. 49:33.740 --> 49:39.040 Maybe put some of these in the water and see who performs the best. 49:39.460 --> 49:41.660 And then we'll have some really cool prizes. 49:41.660 --> 49:47.120 We'll feature you as a contributor, as a winning participant. 49:47.120 --> 49:52.720 We have tons of media that's always trying to cover us because we're doing some pretty interesting things sometimes. 49:52.720 --> 49:56.540 We want to highlight our partners and people that we're collaborating with. 49:56.820 --> 49:59.500 So I think there's some really cool, fun opportunities. 49:59.500 --> 50:14.420 There will be some cash prizes, and we will be picking someone that wins from participating in some of our projects to fly them down to Panama and give them a couple days on a Seastead so you can experience it for yourself. 50:14.420 --> 50:17.720 So I think it's some really fun, cool stuff we have. 50:17.720 --> 50:22.980 We're building the future, and the future is floating, and it's really exciting. 50:22.980 --> 50:26.540 So let's see if there's any more here. 50:26.540 --> 50:27.860 How do you power? 50:28.620 --> 50:29.620 How do you... 50:36.540 --> 50:41.040 Okay, so how are we powered? 50:41.040 --> 50:45.580 We will be... the default system of power will be solar. 50:45.580 --> 50:47.780 So we have to be pretty conservative with power. 50:47.780 --> 50:54.020 We will have, of course, batteries, and we're looking at using a propane backup. 50:54.020 --> 51:00.420 So if the batteries run really low, then we can switch on a propane backup, propane-powered backup. 51:00.420 --> 51:12.700 And then hopefully, in the not-too-distant future, we'll be able to make methane from seaweed and then use that in our generators as a backup power source. 51:12.700 --> 51:18.980 We're also looking at some potential power generation from the water itself. 51:18.980 --> 51:20.580 So using OTEC. 51:21.120 --> 51:31.020 It's a little bit tricky to use, but we may have a way of solving that on a small-scale version of OTEC, which is Ocean Thermal Electrical Conversion. 51:32.800 --> 51:36.020 And wave generators and some other things that we're looking at. 51:36.020 --> 51:43.960 We have some people that we're partnering with that have some wave generators that they're developing in St. 51:43.960 --> 51:44.360 Lucia. 51:44.360 --> 51:47.360 So we may partner with them to bring that to Panama as well. 51:47.360 --> 51:54.500 Some of the other projects I'll mention quickly is... let's see... 51:56.100 --> 51:59.160 AquaCycle... no, let's not talk about that one. 51:59.500 --> 52:01.080 So many projects. 52:01.220 --> 52:03.780 Build Identification with ML. 52:03.920 --> 52:10.860 So I guess the one that Nina was talking about yesterday would be a swimmer. 52:10.920 --> 52:14.000 So we would be doing the Aquaboy. 52:16.060 --> 52:19.880 The AquaScanner is really, really cool technology. 52:20.320 --> 52:32.040 The idea that was suggested originally, and this can change, would be to have a really inexpensive add-on that you can add to any normal drone. 52:32.040 --> 52:38.440 That would be like an array of cameras that you could dip in a grid over the water. 52:38.440 --> 52:40.560 So you could have a grid like this. 52:40.560 --> 52:47.040 Each of these red dots would be a point where the drone, the array of cameras would go into the water. 52:47.180 --> 52:51.540 And then that takes pictures with three cameras under the water at an angle. 52:51.740 --> 52:59.640 So you get three pictures at this way, 120 degrees offset from that, and another 120 degrees offset from that. 52:59.640 --> 53:06.120 So you actually get, you can put all these pictures together and get like a 3D image. 53:06.360 --> 53:10.540 We call it photo photometry, I think it's called. 53:10.540 --> 53:15.040 And you stitch all these images together and you actually get a 3D recreate. 53:15.040 --> 53:23.460 You can recreate a full 3D recreation of the surface of the underwater landscape, which is breathtakingly beautiful. 53:23.460 --> 53:37.660 And I think it's really important for research to be able to do something like this because you can see what is going on with the ocean live as it's happening. 53:37.660 --> 53:48.200 And you can do it year after year and year after year and compare to see what's going on with the ocean, what's going on with the coral. 53:48.200 --> 53:55.940 And you can see if there's improvement in any areas and if there's a reduction in or depletion in any areas. 53:55.940 --> 54:03.060 You can also put different sensors on these, on the scanners, detect other things like pH or other things we want to measure. 54:03.060 --> 54:15.380 And then we'll have, we have this incredible database of highly precise data that's mapped very, very quickly and very inexpensively because this really shouldn't cost very much. 54:15.380 --> 54:23.680 So we have all these things pinned on our seasteading page, on our seasteading channel. 54:23.780 --> 54:25.440 So please check that out. 54:26.240 --> 54:27.940 Underwater drones would be great. 54:29.860 --> 54:32.580 Yeah, we'd love to have some underwater drones. 54:32.580 --> 54:39.380 I'd love to coordinate, I think, with Dave, who was supposed to be on the talk yesterday with Nina, talking about how to do underwater IoT. 54:39.380 --> 54:42.100 So I'd love to be in on that as well. 54:47.020 --> 54:48.600 Let's see if there's anything else. 54:48.600 --> 54:52.180 I have just a few minutes left, so I want to make sure I cover as much as I can. 54:54.760 --> 55:03.240 So basically, we wanted to come here because we wanted to really reach out to people to help, because I think this is like the most exciting thing that's going on on the planet right now. 55:03.240 --> 55:05.900 Maybe I'm a little bit biased, but I think this is. 55:07.160 --> 55:14.960 There's so many technologies that can come from this, because we need to develop technology to be able to live successfully on the water. 55:15.220 --> 55:17.320 So we're kind of doing a call to action here. 55:17.320 --> 55:18.240 We want this to happen. 55:18.240 --> 55:19.600 We're excited about this happening. 55:19.600 --> 55:20.420 And we're opening. 55:20.420 --> 55:21.400 We're so excited about it. 55:21.400 --> 55:24.320 We're opening all the technology up to be open source. 55:24.320 --> 55:39.500 So anyone, any personal individuals or corporations or anyone else can come in afterwards or come in anytime they want and download our code, download even all of our designs for like our CAD drawings for all our homes. 55:39.500 --> 55:42.780 And everything we're building is going up on our GitHub. 55:42.780 --> 55:45.380 We're probably going to move it somewhere else eventually. 55:45.380 --> 55:50.340 But for now, because GitHub is not the ideal place for CAD drawings, but we're starting there. 55:50.340 --> 55:52.400 We just threw it all up in a hurry this week. 55:52.400 --> 55:53.140 So it's all there now. 55:53.140 --> 55:56.880 You can all download it for archival purposes if you like. 55:57.500 --> 56:06.940 So yeah, we're really want to call out the community and see who can contribute, who's excited about this, who would like to contribute in some different ways. 56:06.940 --> 56:12.840 Help us with hacking 3D printers, like large scale 3D printers to be able to print. 56:12.840 --> 56:19.560 We would like to be able to, within a year, we would like to be able to 3D print an entire floating home in like a long weekend. 56:19.560 --> 56:20.960 We think it's possible. 56:20.960 --> 56:24.460 We have some ideas on how to do it, but we need some help figuring it out. 56:24.460 --> 56:31.980 Because we have the hardware, but we don't all have the software and things to make it up and figuring out what all the materials are going to be. 56:31.980 --> 56:33.460 There's some really cool IoT. 56:33.460 --> 56:38.360 We love some really cool IoT projects, home automation projects, hydroponics. 56:38.360 --> 56:45.720 We have some really kick-ass hydroponics things we're doing, 3D printed coral gardens, aquatic transport drones. 56:47.560 --> 56:51.420 So yeah, there's a lot of things here that are really exciting. 56:51.740 --> 57:00.900 So I hope you guys got to answer most of your questions. 57:01.740 --> 57:04.100 Chris Nichols is typing another question. 57:05.300 --> 57:13.820 So I'll be around on and off for the next couple hours, and then I'm going to have dinner and then I'll be back around. 57:13.820 --> 57:16.880 So I'll be available to answer questions. 57:16.880 --> 57:25.260 Try to put them on the Seasteading chat channel, so I make sure I see them right away and it's easiest for me to find them. 57:25.260 --> 57:27.100 And you can get in touch with us. 57:27.100 --> 57:30.300 My email is grant.oceanbuilders.com. 57:30.300 --> 57:33.020 It's grant.oceanbuilders.com. 57:34.880 --> 57:39.740 So yeah, please go and sign up for our challenges. 57:39.900 --> 57:42.060 Tell us what you're interested in participating in. 57:42.060 --> 57:45.860 We'll send out more information on the challenge that we're going to be doing. 57:45.860 --> 57:52.440 And I suppose we'll be coordinated with Hack the Sea organizers as well to get all that information out. 57:52.480 --> 57:54.420 And I'll see you there. 57:54.420 --> 57:56.720 So I guess that's the end.