How much inertia do they need? The UK was doing some of this with giant flywheels.

Its a cover story. Theyre afraid of it becoming a target when China invades.

Or they first shape it, then harden it? The density might rule out any weight savings. I wonder if its impervious to termites and carpenter bees.

Wouldnt that be hilarious? First class accommodation followed by a forced parachute landing over Bikini Atoll. Welcome to your new home.

I am surprised how efficient low power mode can be. During a pretty bad ice storm we lost power and I was using a 3kw generator to power some essentials like an oxygen generator for the mother-in-law. I was at 60% but had no idea how long we would be running on backup. I switched to low power mode and closed all my apps. I still used my phone to check for status updates. In 5hrs my battery only depleted 5%. Now anytime I am in a situation where I cant get to a charger or battery for an extended time I always switch over to low power mode long before I get down to 20%. More like 40%.

Guess its the plantains next. Lol.

We used to eat the grouco (sp?) but we have been eating the Cavendish for about 45 years now. We clone them. So there is so little biodiversity that a blight can easily wipe out a species. Theres been a quest for the next banana for about 10years.

I imagine it eont be but a few more years before Fanduel betting starts cashing in on eSports.

some religious groups, not even the religion as a whole. Its not just vaccines either. What do you call Amish that have a telephone in their Barn but not in their house? We dont really call them Technoidiots or Anti-techies. We just call them Amish.

I read that the 'anti-vaxxer' label for the TX outbreak is really a bunch of media bullshit. When you use the term 'anti-vaxxer' you tend to conjure up images of rednecks in jacked up pickup trucks yelling 'get er done!'. Whats really driving the outbreak in TX is the Mennonite community. Apparently its a religious issue. If the outbreak was heavily concentrated in a community of Hindi or Muslim (like say Dearborn, MI) I seriously doubt the media would be throwing that pejorative around. Its just like that whole gay wedding cake bullshit. The media had to shop around just to find a christian bakery that refused to make a gay wedding cake and intentionally did not mention the 9 Muslim bakeries that also refused make a gay wedding cake. I would call it media bias but honestly it seems to go beyond that. Its almost like an axe to grind.

  It sucks that we are compromising herd immunity, but there really isn't much you can do about religious objections. Some religious groups refuse to accept blood due to some misinterpretations of the bible. As if it was that easy to condemn someone's soul to hell by cross-contaminating their biology with some other organic biology. The biggest problem is that its not just the unvaccinated that are at risk. There are those that are unable to acquire immunity through vaccinations. Despite getting vaccinated multiple times, their titers come back that they are not immune. Those people rely entirely on herd immunity.

Complacency

My money is on stress. Nobody escapes it. Remember in the 90s when a major event or scandal was so infrequent that it stayed in the headlines for months? Tonya Harding kneecapped Nancy Kerrigan. OJ killed his wife. Monika Lewinski wasnt much of a swallower. None of these would survive 2 days in the headlines. No matter how big an event, something else will displace it within 48 hours.

its everyone's job this time. there no turn. youre gonna be out of work too. This isnt John Henry and the Steam Engine. Hell even doctors and lawyers are gonna get replaced. We have way too much population to have AI be good at what it does. If your talking a bare bones Mars outpost/commune, AI doesnt present an issue. When your society already has 15% or more of its population not in the work force and you suddenly replace 60+% or more with bots things go south fast. Sure you could say UBI would step in to solve these problems, but idle hands are the work of the devil. Nobody has a fucking job in areas of Africa for the most part and large swaths of that are war torn shit holes run by warlords. Jobs do more than create income. They give people purpose and keep people busy so they stay out of trouble.

you are thinking too 1950s. When AI replaces every fucking job there is, those 12 guys are competing with another 25 million other out of work fellows trying to find a job. This isnt one backhoe. This is a backhoe, your car, your mail man, your plumber, your landscaper, your teacher, your amazon delivery, your door dasher, your bartender, the list of potential replacements will be staggering in the next 15-20 years. There wont be a more pleasant better paying job. If youre lucky you'll be a waiter working for tips. I have even seen robots delivering food from the kitchen leaving the waitress to move a plate from the cart to the person (a whopping 3feet) and do drink refills. Skilled labor is evolving to be under threat by a system that never sleeps and can work 24x7 without demanding more pay. China is already merging AI with robotics which means goodbye labor jobs. Hell you wont even get a job repairing robots because other robots will probably do that too.

Dumbass. They worked less because precisely from automation. The printing press replaced a thousand scribes. Scribes that were wiped out by the plague. Throughout history every major advancement of automation that did the work of dozens of men has gone hand in hand with a major population adjustment. War being one of the most common.