Pacific Rim Uprising: drone jamming, the aircraft boneyard, and cerebral organoids

Published: Oct. 23, 2018, 7:45 a.m.

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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\\n

Stowing expensive purpose-built machinery. Aircraft graveyards. The economics of storing and securing out-of-production technology for later use.

\\n\\n Robotics \\n\\n

Avoiding 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.

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Securing mobile war machines. EMPs. Resistance to signal-jamming. Broad attack surfaces.

\\n\\n Brain in a jar \\n\\n

IRL 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\\n

Actually: 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\\n

Magical 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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