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> Make large flying machines to enable cheap and efficient mass transport of people and materials. You might be interested in ground-effect vehicles which woul

> Make large flying machines to enable cheap and efficient mass transport of people and materials. You might be interested in ground-effect vehicles which would be much faster than ships, yet still cheaper as well as more energy-efficient than conventional aircraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-effect_vehicle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-effect_vehicle There are some startups working in this area like the Flying Ship Company: https://flyingship.co/ https://flyingship.co/ > Collect and recycle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (and the other ocean gyres.) An easier approach might be to bioengineer bacteria to eat plastic: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/14/bugs-across-globe-are-evolving-to-eat-plastic-study-finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/14/bugs-acr... But this might have unintended side-effects.

carapace 5y ago
Your enthusiasm warms my heart, cheers! > ground-effect vehicles I know of them a little. There may well be some applications for ground-effect in the devices I hope to build. > bioengineer bacteria to eat plastic Maybe so but that's outside my wheelhouse. :) > you might be interested in concatenative languages like Forth, Factor, and colorForth. Indeed! My "macro language" is a dialect of Joy: https://joypy.osdn.io/ https://joypy.osdn.io/ > A good starting point or source of inspiration might be the Smalltalk and Lisp Machines from the past. For sure they are inspirations, as well as the Oberon OS and Jef Raskin's "Humane Interface". In re: Loper, yeah I love that guy (he's even more grumpy than I am for one thing.) There are a lot of interesting projects and software out there that seem in the same or similar vein, such as Collapse OS or akkartik 's Mu.