Re:Seasteading: Cities on the ocean
by leot on Sunday December 04, 2011 @05:01PM
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No doubt in part because they benefit from the protection afforded by nation-states. Cruise ships tend to be filled with the citizens of powerful countries (or countries allied to powerful ones).
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Mostly governments have done very little about piracy in Somalia.
Also at the scale you're talking about, small fast boats, a well armed private militia would be just as effective, as a billion dollar destroyer.
A few 3" guns will stop anything a pirate can throw at them.