Someone suggested buying these on the cheap to create floating white ethno states.
The problem with that idea is that ships need a LOT of maintenance. Like 10-20% of the new price every year 'a lot'. (With this in mind it's not that surprising that they are scrapping ships the moment they don't produce revenue)
I was into the seasteading idea before developing our current strategies. Basically salt water acts a lot like acid and not even stainless steel will work perfectly. You also have waves constantly accumulating stress into your structures.
For seasteading maybe a purposefully built spar structure or platform resting on the ocean floor with carefully chosen materials could work, but ships won't.
GOOD ships might kind of work, but cruise ships are only barely even ships.
What is a "good ship"? Like I said even glass fiber or stainless steel won't work and those cost a lot more than normal ships.
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