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Without clothes, houses, heating and running water, fertilizers, tractors and specially bred crops, Earth would be pretty alien to us today.

I wonder what technologies we will have at our disposal in 500 years.

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I'm quite bullish on widespread fuel synthesis being a thing. It's carbon neutral, sure, but the big benefit in the Earth I'm familiar with is it's entirely decentralized. There's absolutely no need for conflict over concentrated oil and gas reserves, and no need to manage all these supply lines. Just head down to your local LCH4 plant and get your tanks refilled, paying similar prices as today, just the cost goes directly to energy and capex rather than all these storage and transport networks.

Probably much higher quality AI generated misinformation.

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