That sounds unfortunately likely.

When will bot traffic overload the system to the point where it collapses. Also, what are the AIs likely to do, when they start getting vast numbers of cannot connect messages.

So, of the order of a 100 tons per person. About 10 to 20 moon flights. Not perhaps impossible, but incredibly expensive and you also have to provide water and air. Those could presumably be found on the moon, but the infrastructure to collect them would be another considerable investment. If I was seriously considering this, the first thing I would do, is build a linear accelerator (at high altitude) with a nuclear reactor to power it. That might make it practical to send significant weight of material into space (unlike rockets). However, the potential to use such a system as a weapon would create issues with building it.

Blame the news media, we can only comment on what is out there.

Hot oil in low gravity sounds like a bad idea.

Five percent or one percent it is still not practical. Calculate the weight of a hectare of soil a few centimeters deep and the amount of soil needed to grow food for one person for a year.

I always preferred the Terry Pratchett version where the turtle was swimming through space, and they were concerned whether it was a male or female turtle. Think about it.

They are just assuming that the data center frenzy will continue and that they will be able to push up prices because no one will be able to make enough chips to meet the inflated demand. At some point the boom must bust, but they are probably hoping it is far enough out to be the next guy's problem.

You can reasonably argue it either way. Having worked in the corporate world and watched companies manipulate their earnings to ensure that senior management gets their inflated bonusses, I have little confidence in company financial reports. With skillful accounting, it is fairly simple to move profits from one quarter or even one year to the next. Of course, that is not even considering outright accounting fraud, which I am afraid is a lot more common than we know.

If you can learn anything useful from a quarterly earnings report, I am impressed. There are so many ways of manipulating the numbers. Also, many industries have seasonal cycles, so earnings are often concentrated in one quarter, and the other reports tell you nothing. Companies should be required to report whenever they have a significant change in their financial condition, not on specific dates.

Perhaps for a time at a considerable cost in casualties, but so what. Iran is not shipping any oil out of there right now in any case. All they would be is a nice big target.

I meant that only they used them to tell the future. That is what toxicology is, looking at animal guts and trying to predict the future.

I know that US Marines are the next thing to Captain America, but what are 2200 of them going to do against the 300,000-man Iranian army. I think someone has been watching too many bad war movies.

Only toxicologists use entrails anymore.

Usually as their bosses. Senior management being corporate politicians and bullshitters themselves, seem to be attracted to subordinates that copy them. People wonder why so many companies seem to be badly run. It is because management is made of people who talk a good game not people who really know what they are doing.