Just scale everything up and stick a fusion reactor on the pod.
I'm thinking about 1000 30 meter diameter "cables" and pods the size of small aircraft carriers.
What or who is "it"? Ambiguous pronouns are not good. ...and I think it improves life in pretty obvious ways: less time wasted sorting through spam to find real emails, less bandwidth and storage wasted, less time wasted by otherwise useful programmers on making spam filters, less awkward questions from 10 year olds asking their parents what Viagra is, and generally less annoyance.
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Just scale everything up and stick a fusion reactor on the pod. I'm thinking about 1000 30 meter diameter "cables" and pods the size of small aircraft carriers.
"Screw it, let's just cut our losses and move on."
What or who is "it"? Ambiguous pronouns are not good.
...and I think it improves life in pretty obvious ways: less time wasted sorting through spam to find real emails, less bandwidth and storage wasted, less time wasted by otherwise useful programmers on making spam filters, less awkward questions from 10 year olds asking their parents what Viagra is, and generally less annoyance.
If I'm not mistaken, the ratio of wounded soldiers to dead ones in the 17th century was less than one, but now it is actually more than ten to one.