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incredibly slick drone piloting generally re: Tesla, I hope we can manage to throw similar enthusiasm and expertise behind promethean engineering projects slig

• panick21_ 5y ago
  Mars colony involves all space technology, much of it is pragmatic. Self-propelled carriages involve battery research/production and transitioning from ICE to EV. So its really far better then you make it seem. What problems would you like solved? For me, I would like nuclear energy to get attention but the world has decided to be dumb and its not changing its mind anytime soon.
  • adhesive_wombat 5y ago
    There's hope yet: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61010605 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61010605 Only about 30 years late (and might be too late anyway). And who knows if it'll even happen, this government is famously u-turny.
  • walleeee 5y ago
    on board with space technology in general, agreed also on energy storage, no qualms with these mars colony however seems untenable as an economic enterprise barring unforeseen developments, and makes no sense as an existential hedge until we demonstrate the capacity to reliably shape and maintain natural and artificial life support systems on this planet I would love to see more nuclear energy Gigafactory is a name for a place that builds mega- up to gigawatt (micro-)reactors fit for any municipality or mobile habitat, not some car