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Keeping the peace when independent operations can make their own giant robots. Staying somewhat prepared for returning existential threats.
\\n\\n Jaeger graveyard \\n\\nStowing expensive purpose-built machinery. Aircraft graveyards. The economics of storing and securing out-of-production technology for later use.
\\n\\n Robotics \\n\\nAvoiding trouble with the square-cube law by building smaller robots. Boston Dynamics and the inevitable impression of the coming robot apocalypse. Parkour Atlas. Robot kumite.
\\n\\n Drones \\n\\nSecuring mobile war machines. EMPs. Resistance to signal-jamming. Broad attack surfaces.
\\n\\n Brain in a jar \\n\\nIRL progress towards a brain in a jar: human brain organoids implanted on a mouse brain. Sensory apparatus and feeling pain. Getting (ethically) hairy.
\\n\\n Rare earth elements \\n\\nActually: not so rare! But a pain in the ass to extract. The Japanese rare earth ocean-bottom treasure trove and how it will be difficult to access. Mining rare earth elements from spaaaaaaaace and how we probably need a new colloquial name for these materials. Underwater volcanoes.
\\n\\n Jaeger blood rocket fuel \\n\\nMagical Jaeger blood rocker fuel. Gravity gun space race. Keeping Earth as a farm for kaiju blood, fueling our expansion into the entire solar system. Throwing rocks at things for fun and profit.
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