The Mermaid and the Mariner #183 (P)
Are we doing seasteading wrong?
The men who set out to conquer the seas have always known that the oceans are both necessary to our survival and hostile to it, and this duality is personified in the figure of the beautiful mermaid and her dangerous or fatal affections.
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