SeaPunk or MarinePunk

an Manifesto
of
Emanuele Nicolosi

SeaPunk or MarinePunk is an new genre of Sci-Fi, a new genres of science fiction ...

If the "Steampunk" and retrofuturism imagining worlds like the Eighteenth Century dominated by
Steam Technologies, if Cyberpunk are futuristic metropolitan Hackers or unscrupulous
multinationals, if the "BioPunk" are futuristic worlds, dominated by genetic manipulation or by
biotechnology ...
"SeaPunk" or "MarinePunk", and to imagine the future in the sea, a technological or science fiction
future in the sea or in the depths of the sea or the oceans of the earth, hypothesize how it can be a
science fiction or futuristic civilization in the depths of the sea or in an environment marine...
SeaPunk and science fiction to the sailor, science fiction, science fiction on a Marine future, or an
Marine Futurism o Oceanic Futurism o Seafaring Futurism...

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It is true that humans have taken more and more control of marine areas, but the sea still remains
largely the mysterious world that has always appeared.

The seas and oceans of the earth, are a universe in its own right, an underwater universe,

The oceans occupy two-thirds of the earth's surface, coloring it in blue, making the world the "Blue
Planet" that holds something special. The seas were the incubators that gave birth to life, and are
still populated by hosts of creatures of all kinds, many of which are still completely unknown.
Unable to make a precise estimate, but it is estimated that up to 90% of marine species have not yet
been described. It is not surprising, then, to know that it is with great frequency that new species are
continually discovered. The First Census Marine Life, published in 2010, is particularly remarkable:
a particularly ambitious research project dedicated to all the seas and oceans of the planet, involving
researchers from 80 nations, capable of reaching 10 years Discovery of over 6000 new species.

The sea, due to its impenetrability and the aura of mystery surrounding it, was in the past
considered to be a moon of monstrous monsters and creatures that incited deep reverential fear in
human beings. Some of them have found rational interpretations in the modern age based on the
observation of creatures that actually inhabit the seas. A typical example is the siren, which has
given the name to a whole group of marine mammals, sirenas, also called "sea cows" because of
their vegetarian habits, unique among aquatic mammals. Their shape, with the fish tail, and their
graceful movements, could have deceived the sailors who remained in the sea for a long time.
Mothers also have the habit of breastfeeding their little ones, "hugging" them with the front fins - an
apparently human behavior that may have further stimulated the fantasies of ancient sailors.

90% of all marine species have not yet been discovered or unknown to official science,

But there are also some sea monsters of tradition that sink roots into reality. The myths and tales of
peoples around the globe are dotted with references to giant creatures and equipped with tentacles:
kraken, giant rain, giant squid. Until 1861 they were still considered by many mythological animals,
until in November of that year dozens of sailors aboard a corvette ship off Tenerife were witnesses
of a sighting that left no room for doubt: It was a giant squid, and even tried to capture it. The new
creature inspired Jules Verne the genesis of twenty-five leagues under the seas, and gave new
impetus to scientific research on the submerged world.
In the following years, sightings became more and more common, and the Architeuthis species
became a reality. Over the last few years, it has stirred a debate on the existence of several species
within the genus Architeuthis, and it is only since the year 2000 that we have immaginifotographs
and giant squid movies that live in their natural habitat.
A recent Italian work has put together the data collected over these 150 years, creating an
unprecedented map showing the global geographic distribution of giant squid. The map informs you
of the areas where it is most likely to meet, and proposes a timeline with the succession of sightings
over the years.

The work was carried out by the Institute of Science and Information Technology "A. Faedo "of
CNR in Pisa, and was recently announced in a CNR official press release. The author's commitment
was not limited to giant squid, but it also led to the creation of distribution maps of 406 marine
species in order to "monitor habitat changes from 2050 to climatic anomalies in course".

Also because, in sum, the marine world remains largely an unexplored world, an alien planet under
our feet. And yet we can not say to know exactly what's happening down there. Irresponsible
actions can undermine delicate balance, with potential upsets even at the expense of our own well-
being. We will probably never see scenes like those of the best-seller The fifth day, in which the
whole life of life sets in motion an adverse reaction against humanity to stop its impact. But a more
responsible course will be a duty and a burden for all of us.

The sea and the new frontier of the human race, together with the Space ...

The Terre emerged, only 29% of the Earth's surface, all the continents of the Earth, are islands in the
midst of a vast and immense ocean, the seas and the oceans, are 75% of the entire Earth's surface,
98 % Of all the water of the Earth and salt water of the sea, while fresh water and only 2% of all the
water of the earth, the human race, the billions of humans who inhabit the earth live abundant and
crammed, In this 29% of lands emerged, living with the natural resources of that 29% and with that
2% of water on earth, living surrounded by immense seas and oceans, which are the majority of
Earth, the "dominant faction" of Earth, The majority of all the water and natural resources of the
Earth, lies in the seas and oceans of the Earth ...

The Human Race, has two ways to go: either go to Space or go to the deep sea ...

The depths of the sea are the new frontier of the human race, together with the Space, but the sea
and a frontier near and easily reachable from the Space ...

Then, climate change, are increasing and raising sea levels, reducing the extent of emerging lands
and increasing the ocean and ocean extension on the Earth's surface,

A human civilization, which is found with the coasts submerged by sea rising, with dissolved Arctic
and Antarctic ice, with much of the lands flooded or submerged by rising sea levels, will make the
human race or an aquatic race or adapted to Marine environments or intended to have a strong
relationship with the sea, in this case, with global warming and rising sea levels, the human race
will have to deal with the sea and the sea element very much, The future of the human race and a
marine future, the sea and the future of man, in one way or another, man must confront the sea, have
much to do with the marine world, man will need More than ever of the deep sea ...
The rise of the sea level could push the human race to expand to the depths of the sea, since the
lands that have emerged will be completely compromised, made completely uninhabitable by
environmental disasters or by the exploitation of natural resources or the depletion of water
resources, To seek new resources, the human race, will inevitably expand to the sea ...

We would have a "Ocean Race" or "Marine Depth Race", as well as the Space Race from 1950 to
1960, among the world's major powers, we would have Marini programs or underwater exploration
programs, such as a NASA Sea or Ocean, we would have "Aquanauti" or "Marinonauti" or
"Oceanonauti" ...

The human race is exploding, but in the land that emerged, the whole human race is packed and
crammed into the emerging lands, like so many ants, that are packed in a small sand bank, amidst a
vast and immense ocean, or as a group Of monkeys confined in their tropical island, becoming so
prolific to clog the island, making the island a single mountain of monkeys emerging surrounded by
the sea, the only solution for those ants and monkeys are two: either go in Space or go to the
surrounding sea, take advantage of the surrounding ocean to your advantage, there are only two
roads to take: either go over the sky or go deep in the sea ...

The Sea and today, the largest source of food supply in the world, the Sea and the largest food
dispenser in the world, more than farmland or land cattle breeding ...

The great challenge of man's future and access to the natural resources of the depths of the sea, but
also access to a vast and immense source of food supply: the sea can be derived from algae, which
are very important in feeding the future, to support a population In continuous and constant growth,
such as human, the sea can have a double or triple food production capacity of that of the emerged
lands,

But to popularize the sea, the human race must protect the natural submarine habitat, the conquest
of the sea, by man must be an eco-compatible achievement, man will have to learn to live in peace
and harmony With the marine ecosystem, as it will be the source of every vital function of a water
people of the future ...

It is not said that today's human race will go into the sea, but a post-human or transuman evolution
of today's humans, who with genetic or bio-technological modifications, can adapt to underwater
aquatic life

But underwater colonies do not have to be stereotyped futuristic cities like those of science fiction
from 1950 to 1960, I do not expect stuff from "Futurama" in 1964, but submarine bio-cities,
ecosystems-towns that are fused and mixed with the " Underwater habitat,

But for example, the ocean and much more hospitable and welcoming of desert or space, space and
much more hostile and difficult to conquer than seas or oceans, humans are much more familiar
with the sea and the marine habitat , Which with space or spatial environment ...

SeaPunk can also talk about marine-alien marine alien or races that have developed without landing
on the land, remaining in the depths of the sea, creating submarine alien civilizations, an alien
submarine civilization, having endless resources And unlimited, both natural and artificial, would
not have food or water supply problems, it would have immense deposits of natural resources and
raw materials, while a terrestrial or terrestrial race, such as the human race, limited by the limited
and limited space of emerged continents or Terrestrial zones emerged from the sea ...

We take too much for granted that human or alien civilization is always a terrestrial or terrestrial
civilization, just because we terrestrials, being terrestrial creatures, of emerging lands, are
accustomed to thinking that all intelligent forms of life or great sentient civilizations are Inevitably
terrestrial or terrestrial, we see history as an emerging from the primitive phase of the primordial
waters to the advanced or evolved phase of earthly evolution, following the basis of evolutionism:
that is, the fish that comes out of the sea, creating today's forms of life ...

But it is not said that it has been so in other worlds and planets: we are discovering more and more
new and numerous Esophianities or twin planets of the Earth ...
In 2003, two astronomers, one American and one Frenchman David J. Stevenson and Alain Lger,
one of Caltech, and the other of the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale of Paris-South University,
theorized and hypothesized the existence of Planets -Ocean, planets entirely covered with seas and
oceans, a planet that, for example, is a unique and immense ocean, with huge and immense depths,
deeper than the Earth's oceans, even 200 km deep.

The existence of these planet-oceans and considered probable and plausible by official science,
there are also 2 planets-ocean candidates: GJ 1214 b and Kepler-22 b

In these planets, the path and evolutionary process may have taken and created other paths and
paths, an evolutionary path where life forms, by lack of lands emerged, never emerged from the sea
or from the depths of the sea, creating forms of Evolved aquatic-marine life, which may have
evolved from Pisces or Cetaceans or Dolphins or Sea Anemones, molluscs, or any form of marine
aquatic life, creating marine-marine alien creatures that may have created and developed their own
history , Culture and civilization ...

Even by creating advanced and advanced science-fiction civilizations, even more advanced and
advanced than ours who may have begun to conquer and colonize space by conquering and
colonizing other planets or galaxies, controlling them or the local ocean planets or oceans and seas
Those alien planets, interested alien races not to conquer the planet itself, but the seas and oceans of
that planet ...

We always think and believe that aliens, when they want to invade or conquer the Earth, always
think to conquer only the lands that emerge, or to control the terrestrial territories, as if the aliens
were like us terrestrials, but if an alien race that wanted to invade Or to conquer the land or lands
that emerged or continents of the earth to fight, but want to conquer or control the depths of the
earth? Would not it be cheaper to control and dominate 75% of the planet instead of 29%? What
would make an evolved civilization of 29% of a planet, moreover a hyper-exploited, hyper-
urbanized and over-crowded surface, for an alien civilization evolved, it would be much more
convenient to conquer and colonize the seas and oceans of the earth , To the detriment of the human
race ...

Then the existence of submarine water-alien races would solve Fermi's paradox: nobody ever saw
aliens, since they live in the depths of the sea, are aquatic aliens who communicate only through
Marine or Acquatic means of communication, which are completely irrelevant to human
telecommunication systems, there is a lot of trouble for one

Aquatic race, get in touch with a terrestrial race, com is the human race ...
That is why we do not see the aliens, not because they do not exist or there are or never existed, but
simply they are not "Terricoli" as we are terrestri, we are not only anthropocentric, but also
"Terricolocentrici" or "Emersocentrici" ; Giving too much importance to earthly forms of life,
ignoring or neglecting the marine life-forms of life ...

But they would be biological races, accustomed to or adapted to live in water, in aquatic
environments, but who could move into space, having generational spaceships inside them that can
reproduce oceans or artificial miniature seas such as terrestrial artificial spaceships, Which in them
reproduce pieces of Earth in miniature to allow generational travels between the various planets.

A strong and powerful civilization, and inevitably, an aquatic-submarine civilization, which can
keep the earthy civilizations of the emerged lands ...
Such a civilization, will have to be ecological-environmentalist, refusing any form of pollution,
avoiding any harmful activity towards the natural submarine habitat ...

For example, in the future, an aquatic civilization, which gains control of the seas and oceans of the
earth, would be a victorious civilization, a masterful civilization, since, controlling the seas and
oceans of the earth, it controls and holds out the lands and peoples That inhabit it, a marine
civilization, would have all the natural resources, raw materials and sources of water supply and
food of the ocean, with which it can bend, blackmail and keep the lands out of the shake, having
immense resources on its part ... it is inevitable that 75% of the land, to control 29% of the earth, is
a crushing and powerful force that nothing can fight, an oceanic civilization, can dominate and
control the world ...

SeaPunk technologies are Astronavi-Submarine or aquatic spaceships, or multitasking or multi-

modular spacers that can travel both in space and underwater ...

Seapunk and imagine hyper-technological or futuristic civilizations evolved at aquatic or submarine

or oceanic or oceanic levels

SeaPunk takes a lot from the "BioPunk", but you have to imagine a "BioPunk", dropped into an
aquatic-submarine context ...
SeaPunk focuses heavily on genetics, biotechnology and engineering and genetic manipulation, the
biogenetic fusion of human-animal marine breeds ...
SeaPunk, also takes a lot from the "SolarPunk" or "EcoPunk" or "GreenPunk", submerged in an
aquatic-submarine environment, a civilization based on the exploitation of green and renewable
energies, or BioMassa, a zero-impact civilization based on energy Clean and renewable ...

SeaPunk can imagine an aquatic humanity or human evolution in the depths of the sea, to imagine a
Transumanity or Post-Humanity in the depths of the sea, since I think very well that future humans,
who go to colonize the depths of the sea, will be very different from Human as we understand it
today, will be humans other than today's human beings ...

In a SeaPunk civilization, the main sources of nutrition are Algae, but also fish and seafood, in a
SeaPunk civilization GMOs and bio-genetic engineering for food production are widespread ...

SeaPunk, can also talk about a breed of sentient marine creatures such as Dolphins, Calamari,
Pisces or Foche, who have evolved following the evolutionary process by creating evolved or
sentient cultures, conquering and dominating the seas and oceans of the Earth. Disadvantaged by
the human race, something like "The Planet of the Monkeys" with the Dolphins or the Focuses
instead of the Monkeys, transposed into the sea ...
A future, where marine life forms have evolved, overcoming and overcoming the forms of earthly
life ...

SeaPunk, has two types of setting:

The Earth and Earth Oceans in the Future, whether it is near or distant in time or in Ucronie or
alternate stories or alternative time lines ...
In Seas and Oceans Aliens or other worlds, planets, galaxies, universes, or dimensions.

Low-Tech SeaPunk: Can speak of indigenous, terrestrial or alien peoples living in or in the oceans
of the earth or in alien oceans or other worlds or dimensions that are like Polynesians or indigenous
peoples strongly bound to the sea, but they have Bonds with aquatic-marine creatures, using a kind
of "BioPunk" or advanced primitive biological capacity, mutants or biological mutations that have
made these peoples fit to live in marine environments ...
They can also be alien aquatic-marine peoples, on another planet, living in underwater villages,
technologically stuck in the Palaeolithic or ancient world, but with a strong sense of natural marine
habitat ...
Something like "Rapa Nui" or "Waterworld" or "Oceania" (also "Moana"), but with water aliens or
acquatic\marine\oceanic aliens or acquatic\marine alien civilizations or empires or factions or
cultures , or, fallen into a science-based SeaPunk or Biopunk (but marine) science fiction, as mutant
aquatic indigenous, or biologically "fused" or "blended" with aquatic-marine creatures ...
High-Tech SeaPunk: It speaks of marine-aquatic civilizations, hyper-evolved or advanced, often
placed in the future, preferably a distant and remote future in time, or, in other worlds or alien
planets, or fantasy-science civilizations evolved beyond each Imagination, which have created their
new home in the depths of the sea, or, in the oceans of alien planets, here the marine civilizations
are hyper-evolved and technologically advanced with the advancement and scientific-technological
development that has been oriented in advanced aquatic technologies -marine, to make life easy
underwater or in marine environments ...

In SeaPunk, civilizations or galactic empires, aquatic or submarine civilizations, human or post-

human or trans-human or alien civilizations or civilizations can also be imagined on a space level
that control and populate alliances and federations of galaxies or planets or Solar systems,
controlling the seas and oceans of those planets, living with peoples of the lands emerging from
those planets or dominating the ocean planets.

Or, a spatial civilization that, by throwing itself into the conquest and colonization of Space,
colonizes the surface of the planetary oceans or the alien oceans without venturing into the depths
of the sea, colonizing its sea surface, floating cities or metropolises, such as SeaSteads, Cities or
colonies floating in the sea, completely independent and self-sufficient in industrial and food
production ...

This kind of colonization and conducted by terrestrial civilizations or "emerged" and not strictly
aquatic or marine.

There may also be a post-apocalyptic filename of "SeaPunk", a Post-Apocalyptic SeaPunk type of

submerged world, where our civilization becomes a new "Atlantis" or "Lemuria" or where the sea
submerges the whole world ...
An example of post-apocalyptic "SeaPunk" and the movie "Waterworld" (or "WaterWorld Mondo
d'Acqua in Italy) with Keanu Reeves in 1995, something like "Mad Max" but in an marine or
seafaring version, an "Mad Max " on the sea...