Am I missing something here? They say they will remove Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere, but at the end it says they will bury "carbon" under the sea bed. Carbon (also known as charcoal or graphite) is very light and will eventually float to the surface. Surely there are better uses for it? - maybe they could make millions of pencils for illiterate children in Africa?

I hope somebody answered the Kentuckian with: "Sorry, but that ink is only rated to work Mondays thru Fridays". North Carolina is currently legislating to permit 7-day ink use, and a few other eastern states are debating similar changes for their 2023-2026 agenda"."

This is what is ridiculous: $1,400,000,000 is shared between 8,000,000 people. That's an average of $175 each. That's not news. That's like saying 1% of the population owns a cheap suit.

Here in Sydney, Australia, traffic was non-existant for the first month or so when most people stayed home. Later, when we we all started to go back to work (for those who still had jobs), people AVOIDED buses and trains for fear of catching Covid from fellow commuters. So more people started to drive. This caused the price of 2nd-hand cars to skyrocket due to the demand for an extra car in a family. And our suburban roads became choked beyond what they used to be. To add further insult to injury, a private toll-road operator introduced a new toll on a section of motorway that used to be toll-free. Result: hundreds of semi-trailers and trucks now diverted off the tollway and into suburban streets to save a few dollars, and the local roads are even worse. AND. . . . Mothers of precious babies (ie: 8-14 years olds) now drive their kids to school instead of letting them catch buses. So the roads are totally F***ED.

"Dat's not my department . . . says Werner Von Braun."

How can they get lost on a Ringworld? If they just keep walking they will end up where they started. The greater danger is if they try to dig a hole to bury a bone, and break through the other side and fall out from centripetal force.

I'm approaching 60, and I've been coding in COBOL, VB, FORTRAN, REXX, SQL for almost 40 years. I remember seeing Object Oriented Programming being introduced in the 80s, and I went on a course once (paid by work). I remember not understanding the concept of "Classes", and my impression was that the software we were buying was just trying to invent stupid new words for old familiar constructs (eg: Files, Records, Rows, Tables, etc). So I never transitioned away from my reliable mainframe programming platform. I thought the phrase OOP had dies out long ago, along with "Client Server" (whatever that meant). I'm retiring in a few years, and the mainframe will outlive me. Everything else is buggy.

Yet another of SF writer Iain Banks's ideas that Mr Musk is adapting. Neural "laces" appear in several of his more recent novels. At this rate, Elon Musk will also deliver us orbital habitats and 'snap' glands.

I reckon the Government of North Korea will buy the technology behind this app, and use it to monitor the facial expressions of the thousands of people who turn out to cheer a missile parade, or cry when a "dear leader" dies. Anybody caught frowning at a new missile (or alternately, laughing when they realise it's made from balsa wood) or looking happy when Kim's coffin trundles past is immediately sent to the prison farm.

If this were The Culture, then we and our loved ones would be backed up through neural laces, thus the order becomes Possessions, any, any.