Oh thank god, I would love to have better conditions here for everyone.

My grandparents were trying to guarantee healthcare access and end medical bankruptcy. No such luck.

You need some bricks? You have to wait two months between small loads while having access to large supplies of food and water that would presumably make excellent bricks. Also making the bricks reduces your physical capability to use the bricks.

Hong Kong and Taiwan importing democracy into China would have been nice. What could have been.

I think it was a comedian, no orphans were harmed in the creation of this sub

Edit: https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/1309325764739858432?lang=en

But it’s so punny!

We played god when we made dogs 20,000 years ago. That ship has sailed.

Now give me my glasses and coffee while I listen to music on my pocket supercomputer while reading the sum total of human knowledge in the form of cat memes. As I board a plane. Which was built using knowledge from an unnatural cultural transmission method called “university”.

tl;dr We’ve already hacked our brain’s software to make the impossible possible and we’re getting better at it all the time.

This one is my favorite.

Check out Isaac Arthur on terraforming mars. Spinning up the core is insanely impractical. Some satellites can generate the needed magnetic field, or you can let the atmosphere blow off, which is a process that takes thousands of years. Hundreds of thousands if I recall correctly?

The solar particles slamming into the air are charged.