Spend the money on education, health, transport, space exploration, helping other countries... but for fark sake, cut the budget for the military. There's people starving in Africa picking your coffee for you. People starving in Colombia, picking the coffee for you. Same goes for many other countries who America wants to defend itself from... mainly nations of little brown people who are tired of eating granies for breakfast, lunch and dinner!
I don't see how this is going to help prevent and solve unemployment. Most importantly, I don't think I would want to be taken somewhere by a piece of hardware, that I can't even ask a question, directions or some piece of information available exclusively to local humans (Could you take me to the nearest supermarket, pharmacy, whorehouse first, please?), and less so if it's running software, that's bound to have bugs...
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Sure, with a bit of extra work you'll be able to clone octopus-human chimeras... But is it better than having sex?
Spend the money on education, health, transport, space exploration, helping other countries... but for fark sake, cut the budget for the military. There's people starving in Africa picking your coffee for you. People starving in Colombia, picking the coffee for you. Same goes for many other countries who America wants to defend itself from... mainly nations of little brown people who are tired of eating granies for breakfast, lunch and dinner!
Bunch of fscking crack pots...
As long as it's not US, North Korea or Russia - Yes.
I don't see how this is going to help prevent and solve unemployment. Most importantly, I don't think I would want to be taken somewhere by a piece of hardware, that I can't even ask a question, directions or some piece of information available exclusively to local humans (Could you take me to the nearest supermarket, pharmacy, whorehouse first, please?), and less so if it's running software, that's bound to have bugs...
With four times more precision and an army-free, independent control body its worth more than the cash that its worth...