The rockets and capsules are already built, and SpaceX might give a discount for the exposure

They care about saving face, which means not making this a big deal

How do you know that doesn't happen every morning?

>digital beings

In any case, your consciousness ceases under general anesthesia and people still do that.

My guess would be never, since there's no known physical principal which would allow it.

I suppose digital beings could do something similar by emailing themselves around.

Presumably it will be some time before such alternatives can actually be approved as substitutes, but good. There are many ways in which this can be expected to be more effective than animal testing. There must be quite a few drugs over the years that would have been good for humans but were rejected because they were poisonous to mice.

Are you concerned about kessler syndroming the entire solar system?

Often, yes, though trucks often drive well below the limit anyway.

And I'm not sure how multitrailer options affect the limit.

Because that's the amount that the load was short by that led people to claim that they were lying about the gross vehicle weight

Unless the tractors weighs 5 tons more than a comparable ICE tractor, in which case it absolutely did.

Why would hyperloop have a fire problem?

>But semis get in lots of accidents too, and I’ve yet to see one of these go up in flames in a tunnel.

EVs have fewer fires per collision than ICEs.

Suppose you owned guns and your child started exhibiting signs of violent antisocial behavior.

This still wouldn't be the right move, but it's not hard to come up with a motivation.

That one has to go along the seabed though, and involving mote countries is a whole extra level of headache compared to this proposal if the coastal lines were moved inland.

I'm not saying it's wrong, but I'd really like to see the trade study.

Yes. Those hubs are the few places it connects to local grids that I mentioned.

Well let me know when you come up with a solution for fixing the government. Until then, this is what we have.

But then why not just put it further inland and run branch lines off to the few places where this connects to local grids?

I believe the idea is that the government would build the cable network. The profit motive would be to get the bill passed.

It's certainly a thing that can be done. I just don't see the reason for it.

Plenty of companies could profit from this, especially ones running renewable energy production and whoever gets to build the infrastructure.

Why underwater along coastlines though? Isn't that just harder to service?

EDIT: Perhaps my favorite thing about the r/futurology mods is the opaque childish behavior.

Maybe? Never seen a study on it.

To get neonazi comments taken down from reddit you basically have to write a 3 page essay explaining the problem in the appeal. Ask me how I know.