More importantly, they don't actually hover.
Or do they?
The underside might be coated with anti-gravitons and the wheels are just there as decoys, so the physicist establishment doesn't get upset and burn down the factory.
In the last few years this asteroid-doomsday-talk really took off.
Sure there is a risk, but maybe not higher than a worldwide pandemic, a nuclear war, or Odin sending a flood.
- Or do THEY know something? Like, that the risk suddenly got higher by something WE did...??!!
That's when it dawned on me:
It is the outer planets that protect us from space debris. And Neil DegrasseTyson removed Pluto!
In the past it was access to waterways, trade routes, location relative to other important places, etc. While these fixed factors are still a part of what makes and brakes a city, the tech factor is variable and can be artificially increased.
How "cool" a city is, livability, determines whether it can keep recent grads even if some other place offers a slightly higher salary.
Why?
Algorithms may be racist, depends on the sample data you feed it. If the dataset is biased, the result will be biased.
Math may be racist, Statistics, Surveys, Engineering, Business. Because the problem design, layout, definition is done by people.
- Oh, and don't even get me started with the Humanities...
... the ideal of non-conformity is inconsistent with the idea of fashion
That would make a great fashionable T-Shirt.
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They wont. They will only use it against cyber-terrorists.
If you have pen testing tools and they come after you, you are a cyber-terrorist. If they don't, you are a researcher.
they a found trove of strange artifacts
An English primer was not among them, it would seem.
The English Prime Minister never made it to Montecello's Pyramids, it was the Spanish under Francesco Bizarro that discovered them.
Scenario A: Google back when they initially developed Android ran into a design roadblock.
Scenario B: Google developed Android without ever having heard of any MS patents.....
Have you heard of my "method to present alternative possibiliies in a 'Scenario A: Scenario B: - structure" ??
Big deal. I'm sure the ones soon to be used by businesses and local law enforcement will be much more safe & reliable, because they will be produced in a competitive market environment (instead of by government contract) by 3D printers.
Oh gosh, it took me a second to detect the sarcasm in that statement. At first I thought, "no way - local law enforcement and safe. - LAPD drones???" But then there was that bold marker for pure sarcasm: competitive market environment hehehehe
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.