The Metaverse is anything you want it to be!
We should build what Neal Stephenson described in Snow Crash and give it away just to piss Zuck and the crypto fanbois off.

I went to the local Fry's last Thursday and it was like picking over a corpse. Note, some of the items there have been sitting on shelves for years, some of those vendors don't even exist or don't really want that 10 year old, single pole double throw switch returned.

Or an S60. Nothing like a phone that can be dropped from 2 meters without worry.

only occasionally as Piracetam creates a two week boom-bust cycle in brain chemistry and they don't make Vasopressin anymore. Biggest piece of advice is to make sure you know how whatever you're dosing interacts with your internal chemistry and any other foods or drugs you are intaking.
1. Take nootropics
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3. Profit!

It's not making a touchscreen work. It's that touchscreens are the wrong interface for space capsules.

People were saying the same thing in the '80s and it hasn't happened. We were supposed to be living in a polluted desert hellscape by now. Before that, people were saying industrial pollution was going to trigger an ice age.
This all assumes that both humanity and Earth biota are somehow fragile.

Skinsuits are a great idea, if they can be made to work in full vacuum. Dr. Webb's SAS tests were only to 38,000' in a vac chamber. A more current option would be something lighter based on Final Frontier's suit or the old Apollo Extension Suit from Elkins. One thing to consider with any lighter suit is the opposite need, that these are suits used in heavy construction and need to be built tough. NASA almost went with the AX5 hardsuit for station.

The numbers don't close for funding space like a reality TV show.

The only Code of Conduct that makes sense is explicitly encouraging disagreement and challenging each other. This is the only way to make mission critical systems. You can't hugbox, gold star and safe space your way out of some obscure processor overflow or failing turbopump. Note this movement has grown in places where nothing mission critical happens, like app and game developers and is now spilling over into critical systems.
NASA engineers used to say "Always question, never defend."

It's libel at worst. There's no way Deep Fake videos would qualify as assault or sexual assault. This is basic jurisprudence. It's much closer to stating publicly that "Stacey is a slut" versus assaulting Stacey.

We've already found it but don't know that we found it. Viking' Labeled Release surface experiment showed a biorhythm in the data, for instance. Not saying that's a confirmation but we already have tons of data that likely contains a bacterial signal. Intelligent life will probably have to wait until we can listen to some kind of tachyonic signal.

Eyephone and Data Glove.

I can get a lot more monofilament nylon than nitinol in both cost and availability.