Except for thinking...

But since this won't happen in one fell stroke, it won't work. At some point, those who own the robots call the shots. What can YOU offer them (the owners) in return when they don't need your particular labor, and it's no longer marketable because huge swaths are all scrambling for a few crumbs? You can't have an economy where everyone is doing the equivalent of "taking in everyone else's laundry".

No, but they could enable them with their cheap technology. Think of how cheaper the MSL rover could be if if were launched by a Falcon Heavy. All that weight-shedding typical for aerospace can't possibly be cheap. But we won't have any chance to substantially get rid of it until we get cheaper launches. (New Horizons probably could have been much more heavyweight, too, if FH had been available at that time.)

In retaliation, sharks have implemented an anti-aircraft campaign.

Perhaps you need to read the the original announcement Salient points:

In other words, it hasn't happened yet. They're still at the "laying the foundation" stage, by their own admission. NOT ready for prime time. Anyone using it today still needs to maintain multiple code bases.

Again, an announcement of what WILL happen. Again, not there yet.

The question isn't "is .NET viable today" but "is open-source .NET viable today"? The answer is a resounding NO. You're the one presenting the straw man, not me.

There are tons of online services already like iMaterialize and Shapeways - they do really excellent work.

If it doesn't happen everywhere at once, then the proles are divided into the haves and have-nots. And since it won't happen anywhere "all at once", it's going to get extremely ugly.

We are deluded. There isnt a shred of evidence tying the DPRK to this hacking and yet they get all the blame. The movie was filmed in Fall 2013, but there were no statements from the DPRK until June 2014. They really arent the kind of people to miss out on a threatening press release if given even the slightest opportunity. Their press bureau literally salivates a this kind of thing. They also rarely lie. Huge exaggerations? Sure. But not lies. So it seems reasonable they didnt hear about the movie until June when official announcements and trailers started coming out

Meanwhile, the hackers apparently got into Sony's systems over a year ago. They first asked for money, then only later started talking about The Interview and wanting it pulled. The broken english used in their communications is not consistent with a Korean speaker. DPRK citizens speaking english is pretty obvious- they only have a small number of schools which teach it, and without many native english speakers, the teachers are very consistent.

We need to back up a little and reask the question of who did it. The answer might be even more interesting that the line we are being fed.

Is that an argument against NASA buying cost-effective services from SpaceX?

No, an engineer, among other things, is a person in charge of a steam engine. It just so happens that some trains happen to use a steam engine, too.

to engineer, v.: 2.b fig. To arrange, contrive, plan, superintend. Also (U.S.), to guide or carry through a measure or enterprise; to manuvre, (occas.) to ‘shepherd’.

So, in your scenario, is there anyone who is not corrupt/complicit in some degree?

Lets see ... how much of the population lives in an area where conditions are right to grow everything they need to eat? Simple observation says it's less than the total human population, so what to do? Wishing for more water won't make it happen. Wishing for drought to "not happen" won't work. Wishing for snow not to cover the ground for months at a time won't happen for a while - and when it does, it will mean that global warming has turned other areas where people live into inhabitable deserts.

And even if everyone could be moved to the areas that have optimal growing conditions, they're going to need space to live. Where is that coming from? The people who already live there? Don't think they're going to like "squatters" taking over part of their "home". Who's going to police the conflicts that will cause? Or does everyone just print up armaments and leave it to the last one standing?

The fact is that while it might, theoretically, be possible to achieve, WE can't get there from here, because WE are humans.