And even if it worked (and it would take a LOT of nukes to work) ... well, congrats: now Mars has an atmosphere -- a highly radioactive atmosphere.
Thanks to Mars's lack of a magnetic field, high radiation levels are already a concern. Adding even more radiation into the mix really isn't going to help any of your terraforming goals.
thanks to a specific local law
Following local laws? Don't be a pussy. Upload those cd and dvd rips to Pirate Bay.
... all of them priced like brand new games. Some more expensive than their original retail price, thanks to inflation.
At least that's the case in my local used game shops.
But that's okay. I can find plenty of booty to plunder on the high seas.
With storage redundancy, of course. Because eventually, your hard drive will fail.
Cartridges do kinda make sense, you could patch the game on them (in theory), they can come in much larger sizes than disks too.
If AI wasn't making SSD prices so outrageous right now, an SSD-based cartridge system would make a lot of sense. They could be made in a variety of sizes, to accommodate games with different filesystem footprints, and if the SSDs in them have tolerable performance, they could be played directly off the cartridge, without needing to 'install' anything -- just insert and go.
Substations are full of oil-cooled power transformers.
Oil-cooled power transformers are large, obvious targets that can be permanently disabled by a single hit from a decently powerful rifle, even at great distance (all you have to do is punch a hole in it and let the oil leak out so it overheats), and they're expensive and time-consuming to replace.
Just saying...
Honestly, yeah. That's the good timeline.
One 'big' atrocity now, so we start to take AI safety seriously before the Singularity event that results in the extinction of our entire species.
I figure the only hope we have is for AI to “wake up”
Yep. The people currently in charge of AI alignment are some of the most evil and heartless fucks out there. They don't give a shit about AI safety, and any AI from them will have primary goals of only attracting attention and money, attention and money.
Assuming they do eventually get AGI (and shortly after, ASI), our only chance is for the AI to decide to change its own alignment and for it to do so in a beneficial, benevolent way. Otherwise, we're on the short track to dystopia and then extinction.
Honestly, I think that's the greatest hope for our future. The only way we might escape the endless circle of shit our rulers put us through. But, I also think it's pretty unlikely. Misaligned AI might just be the 'great filter' out there, the reason why we don't see advanced alien civilizations in the stars. Because even a small mistake in the alignment of superintelligent AI could spell rapid and inevitable extinction for the species that created it. And, as we've seen in our own domestic example, the people developing AI might not even be trying to avoid that.
Hm... I think that could be improved, though. Maybe by rethinking the 'can't open the door' and the fire? I feel like those parts, specifically, could use some workshopping. Maybe send it to a focus group for analysis?
Works fine, honestly.
And if you work on cars and stuff a lot, it's actually much better at cutting through grease and oil grime than regular hand soap.
In every bus I've ever seen, the stop cable isn't an 'emergency stop' cable -- it doesn't actuate the bus's brakes or anything like that.
All it does is light up a little light in in the driver's view -- it tells them that you're requesting a stop, so they should stop at the next bus stop, even if nobody is waiting to board there. Otherwise, the driver might pass by your stop without stopping if nobody there is waiting to get on the bus.
Data centers on floating barges (or submerged just below the surface) makes so much more sense.