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  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    2 years ago

    i think it's a tech concept that's very appealing to the kind of omni-engineer who thinks expertise in one field qualifies him to solve problems in every field. he learns some basic physics, notices that very little energy is lost when a vehicle is propelled through an idealized frictionless vacuum, and decides that the solution to efficient transport is to simply create a frictionless vacuum, because surely once that is figured out, there'll be no glaring externalities to worry about.