Thus The Guardian today. “From schools at sea to a city that perpetually sails the oceans, is climate change creating a bold new era of floating urban design?” asks the newspaper. The questions in both the title and byline are half the answer, to be sure. In spite of the picturesque images of seasteading communities that grace the article, the subject is enveloped in thick haze. Just like science fiction, it smacks of daydreaming. One more time, the need for self-defense is mentioned not even in passing (“Seasteading: A Letter to The Economist,” December 4, 2011). And all this at an age when piracy is rife across the oceans. Not surprisingly, the article centers on the Seasteading Institute, a think-tank financed by Peter Thiel of PayPal fame and his merry friends. Are they naïve beyond compare, or are they engaged in yet another climate-change scam? These are the real questions behind floating cities, but the article offers no clues about the answers to these simple questions. Chances are that beatific images of floating cities are here to stay. Now that heaven on earth is not to be hoped for any longer, heaven on sea is taking its blissful place.