Well, they finally did it: NASA put the Orion Program on a six month hold for evaluation by the next Administration. It may never resume with the current economic crises going on: proposed Bailouts, Entitlements, and tax cuts. Oh well, C’est la vie.

On another note:

I was just perusing David Friedman’s BLOG, Ideas, and flew off on a tangent link of his son's, Patri. This link is about an interesting concept, Seasteading. Seasteading is a concept where Individuals or groups of individuals or a community builds very large, stable, floating structures in the International Sea Waters. These Structures are intended to be habitats for humans; like large Cities or small Countries. It is proposed that some may even claim to be a Sovereign Nation State, at some point in time

They, The Seasteading Institute, have an active Web site that is pursuing this end: Concepts, Feasibility Studies, Basic Engineering, Financing, etcetera.

I have previously read of this concept, in a book by David Brin: in this novel, amoung other things, he had these very such “Seasteads” as large communities, both organized and un-organized. These Seasteads would grow over time as newcomers joined their smaller structures to larger ones; resulting in floating conglomerate structures that would grow to many square miles in area.

This is a very interesting concept and may very well come to be.