I thought Musk did a similar thing... Fake it, or maybe just had the robot remote controlled. In any case, Musks robots seemed to be a flop too.

To the heart of the matter, as Don Henley would say, I think that what I crave in music is an artist who can reflect and understand my human experiences. With AI, what are people to become? Their experiences reflected by AI's? By and algorithm? It seems that after many "reflections", humans will become more like AI's.

Ignoring the reference to the Oligarcy presently running America, I do find it kind of 'offensive' about Republicans behavior. They seem to tank the economy every time, and the Democrats fix it. When Bush Jr. got in office and saw a surplus, he immediate gave huge tax cuts to the Rich, and ran deficits again. Obama fixed the next crisis, Biden the next. Now more tax cuts for the Rich. Something the Covid Crisis did show me is that the quickest, and best way to get out of a recession, is to give direct cash payments to poor and lower middle class people. They spend it right away on necessities, and even a few frivolous things like going out to eat at restaurants. While the richer people just bank the money, or buy more stocks.

I think that, in general, during recessions, the government should do deficit spending, and when the economy is doing well, the government should run surpluses and paying down debt.

I think the implications of that is that there will be no taxes paid by any of these companies, probably for the next 20 years, all while pocketing billions upon billions of dollars.

That approach worked in the 1930's, oh wait.

lol, i guess your right.

I never 'hit that', seemed like a spamming waste of time to me.

What you call destruction of service jobs, I would call the introduction to the age of plenty, and the end of the age of scarcity. There shouldn't be an "upheaval", but I know there will be. The haves are too good at dividing the have nots for them to stop. That said, I still have plenty of time to think of that, plus thinking about colonizing the moon and mars. I even spend an occasional day or two thinking about colonizing a few moons around the gas giants in the outer solar system. Sometimes even Venus.

I think if we re-thought out the game of Civilization, but for colonizing the moon and mars, we may see that there is a way to have 5-10 humans controlling 10's of thousands of robots. It seems like the first step is to seal off a bunch of caves, or build bricks for buildings, or both. Perhaps creating a machine that could round up and process materials for a huge 3D printing machine for enclosures. Run that to build spaces. Collecting huge stores of water ice may be a step, and have them next to processors for water, oxygen, and rocket fuel. Nitrogen seems to be a problem to be worked out. A step may be to bring seeds, and start growing them in pressurized, radiation free spaces, then bring animal embryo's and "grow" animals. After there are 5,000 or so of square KM of pressurized space with plants and animals, then consider taking more humans in. 1 machine like the boring machine may be enough both create new habitats, and bring up raw materials. I suspect that the lower gravity MAY make it easier to dig. When they develop the technology, and find the raw materials they find to both create plant growing lights, and an energy source, then Bingo, self sufficiency.

Perhaps they are "moving quick and breaking things"?, like SpaceX does. Send it out, and in the case of a rapid deconstruction of the ship, learn from it and iterate.

You posted an insightful post in my opinion. It is an Engineering challenge, and should not be debated from a pro-oil point of view.

I am good with the "all of the above" energy solutions. Nuclear, in my opinion, is a decent choice for boats at sea. I am kind of irritated about the oil pushers. They are like drug pushers to me.

I think that opinion needs to be tested in an objective way. Facts seem to be lost on the oil pushers and liars.

Oil power is lazy, dirty, and inefficient. Wind is the obvious choice. From an engineering perspective, in 2025, it seems like quite a challenge to me. It used to take many men to make it work. Now we have control systems, precise sensors, and efficient motors. We could send up massive Kite type of things to propel the ship. Sure the package may arrive a day or two later, and big deal. As people we have all of this 'anxiety' about instant gratification, then when it comes, we think, big deal.