You nailed it!

We've had VTOL passenger transport for decades now, in the form of tried and proven technology: helicopters.

Right now a bunch of startups are trying to reinvent the industry by claiming "carbon zero" and "autonomous" when we know:

1. the market is *very* limited (ie: where are all the helicopter-based flying taxi services?)
2. the tech isn't ready (current battery tech isn't up to the task)
3. we don't trust autonomous sytems on the road so why would be trust them in the air?
4. regulators are still many years away from approving such things in Western nations
5. there is zero mitigation available for GPS failure (or malicious attack) and eVTOL craft don't autorotate in the event of power faulure.

Call me in 10 years time and we'll reconsider.

Yeah. I was afraid of that. The only sorts of solar power projects that could conceivably affect interstate commerce are the really big ones. Not the little "put panels on my roof or the roof of a small business" subsidy stuff. Which are typically the bailiwick of state and local utilities and regulators. Because that's all the farther the electricity is likely to go.

Another "gibs" for the big boys.

Wait! What? You must have some real slow pokes using your gas pumps. It's about 5 minutes to fill my truck. Which includes the time to swipe my credit card and request a receipt. For you EV enthusiasts, that's a charge rate of about 3000 mph (Mach 4).

Or sold off to the AI operators. I guess the poor crypto miners will just have to live off of hand-outs.

That's only 1.4 mother-in-laws.

... a new particle. To carry the property of mass across space. And bend space-time to produce the emergent field which we call gravity. One with a very long, but not infinite lifetime. So that its decay across space produces the non uniformity that we observe.

Sorry, but the Higgs boson cannot be responsible for mass directly. It has too short a lifetime to even be directly observable in the LHC. Never mind moving across galaxies or the universe like photons do.

But we shouldn't do anything different about this one then we did with the last.

Yeah. But a unicycle?

... due to someone dumping PFAs in that ocean to begin with, would it?

What part of "No! No! Don't do that!" did they not understand?

You assume that corporations are assigned shares on the same crap servers that consumers are given.

One word:

"Software as a service/subscription"

Okay, that's more than one word but if Microsoft says it's one word then you have no option but to believe them because when you run Windows, they *own* you!

(Smug grin, having been a satisfied Linux user for decades).

That'swhat the "Download Ubuntu" button is for.

This can only go well (pfffft!)

Do not stare long into an abyss ....