Which of the ideas should @BoredElonMusk pitch to @ElonMusk?

Maybe the Elongated (not gated) City?

Abundant food, water, energy could solve a lot of problems occurring in the Sub-Saharan Africa

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As you disarm child soldiers what to do with all the AK47?

Throwing weapons into molten lava.

Proof-of-burn NFT.

Airdropping $LSDDMT Ledger System Distributed De-Militarisation Token to the hodlers.

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To prevent toxic fumes pickles help reduce acidicity.

Aluminum foil keeps the heat out of the way.

Optionally: consume after use.

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Now onto the crazy shit…

...to be fair, not sure to what extent possible.

Surely loads of rules, regulations, compliance - unless you decide to run your own model of reality.

Pretty sure that was illegal too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

(UK">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit... didn& #39;t like it)

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pfeil nach rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach rechts"> SpaceX International

@Tesla patents: https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you

https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/blo... href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX">@SpaceX patents: https://hbr.org/2021/03/elon-musk-doesnt-care-about-patents-should-you

“If">https://hbr.org/2021/03/e... we published patents, it would be farcical, because the Chinese would just use them as a recipe book.”

In the movie “The Martian” there was a collaboration.

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Due to rocket science export restrictions technology, the SpaceX is open only to US citizens (and other legal aliens).

Effectively, 96% population of the Earth cannot even apply.

Can we run a franchise SpaceX UK, SpaceX EU, ...?

Or maybe something completely different.

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pfeil nach rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach rechts"> Cosmodrome Baikonur - can we buy it?

Currently Russia is leasing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikonur_Cosmodrome">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baik... from Kazakhstan

In an attempt to reduce its dependency on Baikonur, Russia is building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostochny_Cosmodrome

7/n">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vost...
Russians messed up one of the recent launches…

“The rocket was really programmed as if it was taking off from Baikonur, they didn’t get the coordinates right.”

It& #39;s rocket science, details matter.

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Why would Kazakhstan like this idea?

PR exercise. We can frame it the right way:

“billion dollar investment and positioning as the hub of space exploration” - arguably better than Borat.

A question remains - to use an existing launch port or build a new one from scratch?

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pfeil nach rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach rechts"> Asteroid avoidance

#Nuclear_explosive_device">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_impact_avoidance #Nuclear_explosive_device

Will">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aste... a nuke work in outer space?

What is the shortest notice we can source a rocket? (and a nuke)

Do we have any on standby?

This dude appeared out of nowhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor

10/n">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chel...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pfeil nach rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach rechts"> Nuclear disarmament

It’s funny / not funny, depending how you look:

#2017_Nobel_Peace_Prize">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Campaign_to_Abolish_Nuclear_Weapons #2017_Nobel_Peace_Prize

The">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inte... Economist wins some kind of prize for snarkiest headline of the day with: “This year’s Nobel peace prize rewards a nice but pointless idea.”

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pfeil nach rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach rechts"> Quattara Depression

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project

“use">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatt... of nuclear explosives to excavate the canal was another proposal”

“plan called for the detonation in boreholes of 213 nuclear devices”

Could that be a good use case?

Or maybe @boringcompany could handle this?

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Analysis: https://energycentral.com/c/ec/qattara-depression-project-time-revisit

The">https://energycentral.com/c/ec/qatt... author replied:

“I& #39;ve been focusing instead on a vaguely similar project closer to home: rescuing the Salton Sea in Southern California and encouraging development in the Mexicali region near the mouth of the Colorado River.”

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pfeil nach rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach rechts"> Salton Sea

Check it out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea 

“The">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt... idea of importing seawater from the Pacific Ocean or the Sea of Cortez in Mexico has been around for a long time.”

You have a smelly problem (ecological disaster) out there in LA: https://laist.com/news/salton-sea-rotten-egg-odor

15/n">https://laist.com/news/salt...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pfeil nach rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach rechts"> Aral Sea

Maybe the same trick with Aral Sea?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBz_7qTNCQE

Less">https://www.youtube.com/watch... urgency.

(it’s been drying up for ages)

The volume is big enough to measurably affect the global sea level, especially when you account for ongoing evaporation

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pfeil nach rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach rechts"> Flooding desert

http://carbon.ycombinator.com/desert-flooding/">https://carbon.ycombinator.com/desert-fl... by @ycombinator

There is a concern about the availability of labour.

“war on drugs” is ending, as we revisit incarceration for non-violent crimes, there will be plenty of able-bodied citizens eager to earn a legitimate income.

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“Helping the planet” is better recruitment strategy than targeting graduates with student debt to join the military https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷‍♀️" title="Achselzuckende Frau" aria-label="Emoji: Achselzuckende Frau">

We would build some Elongated (not gated) cities along the way: https://www.politasconsulting.com/migrant-cities-refugee-camps

18/n">https://www.politasconsulting.com/migrant-c...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pfeil nach rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach rechts"> International vote

The current voting system was designed when information was traveling at a speed of a horse or a ship

With real-time access to information and ubiquitous access to the internet, we can design a better consensus-making technology.

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To begin with, we can ask the entire humanity YES / NO

Simultaneous https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🛰" title="Satellit" aria-label="Emoji: Satellit"> satellite photo ( #Bitcoin https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> block 888888 or sooner)

Make an “X” shape with your body to tick the box, say YES.

Lied down with hands alongside your body “I”, hold on to the old system, means NO

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Surely some edge cases to resolve:

- Will it work at night?

- Will it work through cloud cover?

- What about people who cannot move or cannot be outside?

- Confidentiality of a vote? (lie down, face down, remember to breathe)

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If the majority agrees, the international community agrees, everything is verifiable and transparent - looks legit enough to me.

Can we install additional measurement apparatus on satellites?

Or maybe such technology is already deployed?

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"My answer would be to develop a world energy grid, an electric grid where everybody is on the same grid.

All of a sudden there would be no problems any more, no international troubles. Our new economic basis wouldn& #39;t be gold or dollars; it would be kilowatt hours."

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There is always a place on the planet where the Sun is shining and the wind is blowing.

Tesla claimed it was possible, can we do https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transfer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire... economically on the grid scale?

That would be awesome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower

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Closing thoughts.

We can solve any problem.

We cannot solve all the problems, all at once.

Full support to Elon making humanity multiplanetary, that should be (is) the highest priority.

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