<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>Jeffrey Epstein &lt;jeevacation@gmail.com&gt;</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:</td><td>Monday, August 29, 2011 8:18 AM</td></tr><tr><td>To: </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>Re: FW: Sci Fi Cities.</td></tr></table>

it turns out first great reveneu is selling stamps, to collectors that r=quire ALL nations.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 =t 6:28 AM,  < 
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Just beca=se Lowell mentioned you!

:)

These things are super cool.<=u>

Fr=m: Lowell Wood [mailto:████████████████████=/a>]
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 9:05 PM
To: ████████████Cc: 'Bill Gates'; Boris Nikolic (BGC3)
Subject: =E: Sci Fi Cities.

highly-active communities-at-sea, A=tually, as it turns ones out, the that Somalis su=port have extensive pioneered entrepreneurial really quite activities vigorousl= great in recent distances years from in forming the nearest=shore, moreover over prolonged time-intervals.

They've even m=de such communities pay -- sometimes remarkably 'handsomely' -- so tha= they've 'naturally proliferated both quickly and widely!=/u>

With another hat=on, I've been peripherally involved in detecting the existence-&-loc=tion of — and then 'interacting' with -- such communities, which as-=s-class have had utterly remarkable impacts on marine insurance rates in t=e western Indian Ocean! :):(

Lowell=/u>

=A0

PS. Indeed, these d=rt-poor people have innovated remarkably swiftly — and in a highl=-effective manner! Why, they've even attracted significant quantit=es of international venture capital (of a non-too-savory flavor, to be sur=I) to enable their building-out!

In the abstract-=amp;-from a great remove, I do admire aspects of their derring-do! [=ut then I was able to find a number of features of the Soviet system-of-do=ng-things to likewise admire-out-loud — to the continuing fury-&- des=air of the far-too-many USG security officers assigned to my case... :):(J

PPS. If=you were really-&-truly entrepreneurial, you'll pull-togethe= a consortium that'd go out and lease a dozen war-surplus deep-sea drill=ng platforms, and deploy them in a line transecting a major marine-shippin= lane in the deep ocean at a 24-mile pitch, i.e., just a shade less than t=ice the internationally-recognized "exclusive control of offshore seas=94 margins of sovereign nations.

After declaring =hemselves to constitute the Sovereign Archipelago of Francis Drake (or per=aps 'Jeffrey Epstein'?), they=could commence to charge tolls on all of the ocean-traffic passing through=their mostly-'offshore' territories...which fees would likely accumula=e quickly to a tidy sum (e.g., one supporting the oh-so-swiftly build-out =f ever-more 'islands' of the Archipelago, their proliferation across o=her major sea-lanes, etc.).

These tolls woul= naturally be priced at just a shade less than the total costs (fuel, time=...) of navigating around the Archipelago's territory. Correspondingl=, I'd recommend emplacement of the initial Archipelago across either =he east-or-west entryway of the Straits of Malacca... titanic 'regrets=92 are involved in avoiding the Straits in making the transit between the =ersian Gulf and East Asia! :)<=p>

Of course, the i=come derived from licensing fishing, etc. in the "exclusive economic zon=s" of 200 mile radius around each such island would be additional...but =hese could be employed to offset the substantial lawyers' bills, "Wash=ngton representation" fees, etc., etc. that would be involved in operati=g such an "instant sovereign!" J [And= to be sure, "The essence of sovereignty lies in its enforcement" — =ut the famous international arms bazaars can instantly outfit-&-staff =he navy of any newbie-among-nations that has a reasonable line-of-credit..=J

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| Sent | Sunday, August 28, 2011 8:12 PM |
| To | Lowell Wood; Bor=s Nikolic (BGC3) |
| Cc | 'Bill Gates' |
| Subject | RE:=Sci Fi Cities. |
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Not sure this is about autonomy?<=span>

I'm certain this wou=d be better than life in Mogadishu. And probably cheaper...<=span>

Think of all the cool =nnovations that would follow —

	1. Desalination would be easier and smaller=/p>

	2. =span style="color:#1F497D">Energy requirements would be about the same b=t necessarily renewable

	3. =span style="color:#1F497D">Sanitation would totally change!

4. Health would matter since living in such tight q=arters means communicable disease becomes real again (for everyone!)

I think it would=be cool to offer this up to Somalia or somewhere desperate and see what ha=pens.

Rich people don=92t innovate as quickly!!

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Fr=m: Lowell Wood [mailto:██████████████████████████]
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 7:15 PM
To: Boris Nikolic (B=C3)
Cc: ████████████; 'Bill Gates'
Subject: =E: Sci Fi Cities.

Y=u’re a practical guy after my own heart, Boris – =93Everyone’s allowed to dream about what they’ll eventually
do =ith their dollars, as long as they contribute their pennies to our Good Ca=ses in the here-&-now!”  JJ<=u>


Lowell=/u>

=A0

PS. It's admitted=y interesting to contemplate from a technical perspective how such 'esta=lishments' might gain Lebensraum in a genuinely-feasible manner, =.e., how both area and volume could be 'accumulated' at a feasible cos= per hectare, per cubic meter, etc., so that indefinite expansion of a '=eedling' might be 'self-executing'....

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| Subject | RE: Sci Fi Cities |
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Note: several names and email addresses in the screenshot are blacked out/redacted.

Some Libertarians tried to create these new community (with autonomou= structure, no taxation and even own currency) — Since islands can, unde= international law, only be claimed if they are at least 30 cm above the h=gh tide point, some have even attempted to build sovereign islands, like r=al-estate millionaire Michael Oliver's attempt at building a libertari=n city-state called the Republic of Minerva in the southern Pacific Ocean.=A0 Not sure how anyone could get significant autonomy. </=pan>

http://en.wi=ipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Minerva <http:=/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Minerva>

Perhaps it=would be better that Peter gives more to HIV!

We are still waiting f=r his reply re October dinner in NYC

Boris

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Sent: Sunday, August 28, 20114:24 PM
To: Bill Gates
Boris Nikolic; Lowell Wood ( <mailto =t> )
Subject: Sci Fi=Cities.
Importance: Low

Peter Thiel's response to urban development. Neat=to think about, cool pictures anyway.

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$1.2= million investment into this (sketchy) organization on his part is probab=y too small to even build one of these but at least he's trying!<=>

What=l think would be cool would be to try this in Africa. Even cancer cells st=p multiplying when you confine their space.1

Miss=on: To further the establishment and growth of permanent, autonomous ocean=communities, enabling innovation with new political and social systems.=/u>

http://www.seasteadin=.org/

Floating cities: PayPal billionaire pl=ns to build a whole new libertarian colony off the coast of San Francisco<=>

	- Ocean state would have no welfare, no minimum wa=e, and few restrictions on weapons

" Platforms would house 270 people and hundreds could ev=ntually join together

PayPal-founder Peter Thiel was=so inspired by Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand's novel about free-market cap=talism - that he's trying to make its title a reality4=pan>

The Silicon =alley billionaire has funnelled $1.25million to the Seasteading Institute,=an organisation that aspires to launch a floating colony into internationa= waters, freeing them and like-minded thinkers to live by libertarian idea=s.

Mr Thiel rec=ntly told Details magazine: 'The United States Constitution had things=you could do at the beginning that you couldn't do later. So the quest=on is, can you go back to the beginning of things? How do you start over?&=39;

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Life on the =cean wave: A design for one of the floating cities which Peter Thiel wants=to start constructing next year off the coast of San Francisco</=>

Green land: An aerial view =f the city, complete with landcaped gardens. Mr Thiel believes many of the=islands could eventually be joined together

Design for l=ving: This island even has a high-level helicopter pad. The cities would b= constructed on oil-rig like terminals

The floating sovereign nations that=Mr Thiel imagines would be built on oil-rig-like platforms anchored in are=s free of regulation, laws, and moral conventions.

The Seastead=ng Institute says it will 'give people the freedom to choose the gover=ment they want instead of being stuck with the government they get'.

Mr Theil, th= venture capitalist who famously helped Facebook expand beyond the Harvard=campus, called Seasteading an 'open frontier for experimenting with ne= ideas for government'.

After making=his first investment in the project in 2008, Mr Thiel said: 'Decades f=om now, those looking back at the start of the century will understand tha= Seasteading was an obvious step towards encouraging the development of mo=e efficient, practical public sector models around the world.

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'We're=at a fascinating juncture: the nature of government is about to change at = very fundamental level.'

Light city: =eter Thiel called the project, Seasteading, an 'open a frontier for ex=erimenting with new ideas for government'

Mr Thiel said: 'the nature of g=vernment is about to change at a very fundamental level'=/span>

M= Thiel and his colleagues say their ocean state would have no welfare, loo=er building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons.

Aiming to ha=e tens of millions of residents by 2050, the Seasteading Institute says ar=hitectural plans for a prototype involve a movable, diesel-powered structu=e with room for 270 residents.

The long-ter= plan would be to have dozens and eventually hundreds of the platforms lin=ed together.

Patri Friedman, a former Google engineer who i= working on the project told Details that they hope to launch a flotilla o= offices off the San Francisco coast next year.

'Big ide=s start as weird ideas,' Mr Friedman said.

He predicted t=at full-time settlement will follow in about seven years.

But while so=e Ayn Rand acolytes may think the idea is brilliant, it's not without =ts critics.

Margaret Crawford, an expert on urban planning an= a professor of architecture at Berkeley, told Details: 'it's a si=ly idea without any urban-planning implications whatsoever.'

Mr Thiel told an audience at the Seaste=ding Institute Conference in 2009 that: There are quite a lot of peop=e who think it's not possible.

'That's a good thing. We don i=3 need to really worry about those people very much, because since they d=n't think it's possible they won't take us very seriously. And=they will not actually try to stop us until it's too late.'=u>

Read more: http://www.dailymail.=o.uk/news/article-2024761/Atlas-Shrugged-Silicon-Valley-billionaire-reveal=-plan-launch-floating-start-country-coast-San-Francisco.html#ixzz1WMuYqS7n=/span>
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