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Originally Posted by sendler
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Debt and entitlements could be disrupted by the technology to grow houses from high-tech 'seeds'.
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Can't happen.
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Prior art:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/284763/bgpage
A wasp flies up to an Oak tree, injects it with a hormone, and the tree creates a living pod and starts delivering groceries. Would that we were as intelligent as the wasp.
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We might be able to eventually drag an iceberg and beach it at Qatar. But who would pay?
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That was the proposal in the 1950s. High drag and shrinkage. I'd favor huge tubes inflated with freshwater, with the fineness ratio of an oar fish.