This project has invoked a lot of very interesting dialogue and discussion - Very fun fit for HN. Someone mentioned Kim Stanley Robinson's book: Aurora. (There is an audiobook version.) I recommend it also... It is a bit long winded but presents a lot of detail and thinking on many of the ideas discussed in this comment section. A very fun read. A grand adventure similar to old school science fiction books. One of the brilliant concluding quotes, went something like; The earth is an interstellar spaceship too.

All the good story tellers went to work at computer game companies.

We are going up, slowly, in health, literacy, education - globally. But, like all progress, it is up up and down, then again up up and down. Thanks to retro grades like Putin and Trump. As to health indenture -that form of slavery is primarily in USA. Most other countries have figured it out. I agree with hope for the future though. Star Trek, not Star Wars!

Globally this is true because of improvements in developing countries. Not uniform improvement everywhere. Some places backslide.

Reminds me of the book Saturn Run, by John Sanford - which has a lot of effort put into the technology and radiation of heat in their space ship. Fun science fiction book.

I recall a good treatment of this issue in the early part of Joe Haldeman's classic The Forever War. Highly recommended.

Started reading a preview of that. It starts really well. Thanks.

It could be that reality is more "exciting" than any fiction, and your mind can't handle any more.

Yup. Switch to Firefox or fennec and use ublock. Clean story. Even can use text mode.

Motorola. Plus it still has an audio port.

I miss the flashlight chop, but at the time I moved away updates were short and migration was "you're on your own"

Even in Polish, this comes out Greek to me.

I mean, it makes some sort of visual sense, but can't grasp the results from the matrices shown.

They chose that class. The syllabus stated what they are going to study. Having an expert in a subject explain something you want to understand, is what you pay for. There are many ways of expanding your knowledge. To each his own.

Wasn't there a hanging tram under the train going over the Berlin wall? (For workers at Checkpoint Charlie i believe.)

You may be thinking of the M-Bahn: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Bahn - though fits almost none of the details:)