Replacing an international publicly-funded institution for the advancement of science with pods for Silicon Valley psychos to do coke and jack off in. We are in the bad timeline.
Cyberpunk dystopia but without any of the cool stuff.
Not really a new thing just an area with a lot of commercial and industrial zoning. Usually where there’ll be big offices and manufacturing with warehouses or what have you. Similar to an industrial park.
Maybe, but if capitalism does in fact rely on a pool of excess and disposable labor to keep bargaining power down, it’s more likely that we’ll have slums in space, tenement stations that capitalists will point to as evidence of the beneficence of the system and as an implicit warning to anyone thinking of asking for something beyond their station. Maybe earth will be the slum.
Who the fuck would ever want to work their shitty white collar job in orbit
There’s definitely a cadre of nerds out there who would gladly get put into orbit just to crunch spreadsheets in SPAAAAAAAACCCCCCEEEE
all of your bones and muscles atrophying while you’re working in a call center
Being sucked out into the vacuum of space because management needed a TPS report
So you are telling me they are gonna have davos in a place without oxygen built by the lowest bidder? Comrade bezos gonna do thr revolution for us
I know it’s a joke, but the real answer is that if you wanted to destroy something in orbit, it would be very, very difficult. This goes out the window if you want to send up a well-timed nuke that blows up in the general area of your target, but this is still very difficult and not advisable.
Apparently it was a modified df21 missile that can do exactly that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_missile_test
