“AntiGravity Drive” - by John Pitts Jane his Wife Even if…

“AntiGravity Drive” - by John Pitts
Jane his Wife

Even if a brilliant inventor created an antiGravity drive which made it economically & physically trivial to exit the Earth’s gravitational pull, we still wouldn’t populate Mars or anywhere else in the Universe.

First of all, 2/3rds of the planet is covered in water, and populating the seas with floating cities is far more preferable and economic than populating Mars or Alpha Centauri. Yet while we have some easily lovable cruise ships, we don’t have our first seaborne town, much less city. Someone would first need to invent a commoditized floating “land” first— one which could add to floating city size when needed for growth.

Then we have all the land and frozen ocean in polar regions— ice-capped. Again this would be FAR more preferable than any other place in our solar system, and more human friendly environments beyond the solar system have not been found, not even the first livable one, and the time cost, rather than the economic cost of travel (which could be solved by solar sails for example) is still prohibitive until mankind either figures out how to live longer (cryogenically or outright literal life-hack) or reach speeds of light without risk of asteroid collision (no small feat but if we already figured out how to shoot a machine gun Thru the blade plane of a World War 1 military airplane, theres hope).

But why waste the invention of a cheap antigravity drive? We would build floating cars, super cheap airplane travel, and best of all floating cities. If water covers 2/3rds of the Earth’s surface, how much extra room do we get if cities can float around in Earth’s upward orthonormal dimension?

Welcome to the Jetson’s. You knew that cartoon was predictive, right? Like 2,000 Leagues Under the Sea predicted nuclear submarines. But if we can conquer antiGravity, can we conquer. pur spend-happy spouses taking our entire wallet instead of just the single $100 bitcoin bill we wanted to deal out? Now that would be some kinda invention.

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