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Re:Seasteading: Cities on the ocean by Czarnian on Sunday December 04, 2011 @05:12PM (#3312032)
Where exactly would one put a space port on a seastead? The minimum safe distance for a launch at Kennedy is something like 2 miles. And launching anything into space from a floating platform . . . let's just say that the basic laws of the universe are not on your side.
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Re:Seasteading: Cities on the ocean by dredmorbius on Sunday December 04, 2011 @06:21PM (#3312234)
A detachable or detached launch platform would be trivially feasible -- at least at the scale of triviality in which one envisions seasteads in the first place.

We've been launching ballistic rockets from submerged platforms for ... oh, a half century or so now. Space launches for most intents.

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Re:Seasteading: Cities on the ocean by yummyfajitas on Sunday December 04, 2011 @05:53PM (#3312162)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_(launch_platform)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broglio_Space_Centre

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