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Old 06-01-2018, 06:48 PM   #1934 (permalink)
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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'.
Can't happen.
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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?
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.
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