I don't think we have any idea of what they would think of us but it is a chance I am willing to take.

I would leave in a heartbeat. If aliens landed in front of me I would already have run up the ramp by the time they asked for people to come with them and waiting inside.

I hope that as our technology keeps improving that it will be viable to build a ship and leave this planet. Sure a new colony might be worse .... but that would be hard to do.

This does not actually sound much different then what it is like working with larger private sector companies. Where they do a focus group and take months to make simple decisions. From working with both government and large corporations I have not noticed any real difference in the time it takes to get things done or how much money is wasted they just do it in different areas. Small business though are a different matter, they are usually far far faster at making decisions and doing things.

Having worked with large private companies and governments I have not seen any real difference. I know it is popular to say that capitalism encourages efficiency and the government always wastes money but I just don't see it. Capitalism and government are about equally efficient, which is to say not at all.

Companies burn your money just as happily as the government does, especially large ones.

Then why didn't it solve the problem when it had a chance and before legislation had to be involved?

If the free market can solve all problems why do so many go unsolved for so long?

Include an unfoldable solar panel in the car and a small pole to put a mini wind turbine on ;)
Actually with solar panels getting better that options is actually pretty viable. You could charge up enough in an hour to get to another town most likely.

Or you could just do what everyone else does and call AAA or hit the onstar button for assistance.

Overall it is easy to get the idea that leviticus was an ahole

Even better lets get rid of the fighting entirely and give people robotic bodies that want them and go explore space. The human body is really not very well designed or built so it is time for upgrades. Evolution may have gotten us this far but I am all for going in another direction.

Batteries for laptops don't have to be expensive. I can get a 9-cell lithium ion laptop battery for most hp laptops on amazon for about $30-$40 which is FAR FAR less then buying a new laptop.

That is one advantage of a trivially user replaceable battery, you end up with a competitive market for those batteries and it drives the prices down including from the original company.

I see no problem with replacing a hand. I want to replace my entire body. Until we know how to digitize the brain it would probably have to be a brain in an enclosure inside a robot body but later the goal would be to replace the brain. Do synapse by synapse replacement while you are awake and by the end you can think thousands to millions of time faster and at no time did you ever die.

Imagine all you could learn and see with a fully robotic body. You could explore space, many places on this planet that humans can't go and you would live long enough to see participate in many things that humans are only beginning to work on now. I would love to live for millions to billions of years and learn everything that I could.

Once you are fully digital you could even make probes to send down to new planets and it would feel just like you where there but if the probe is destroyed you would be fine since you could run it on remote. You could even have your brain be a massively redundant computer with stable memory in case of full power loss. Humans bodies are just not up to what I want to do and I prefer to go the technology route and fix the problem instead of accepting the limitations of what humans can do. We have been at our best trying to strive beyond what we can do, even if we don't reach our goal we learn a lot in the process. Artificial eyes, ears, legs, arms etc will help many people.