Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 08:43:53 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <64M0O.89975$TyYf.65665@fx15.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 17:43:56 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="02745e3488847831838b36cf8f1ec55f"; logging-data="2814994"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19uTVL7qlL9TqMy4uYRQStL0kusbHDELXc=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:MOummJjzOCuoZbzg85Dj2O6IJGQ= Bytes: 2626 On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 20:51:12 -0700, Dimensional Traveler wrote: >On 6/7/2024 8:09 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote: >> Dimensional Traveler writes: >>> There is a Dutch company with an autonomous brick-laying robot in = final >>> testing. >>=20 >> And there are house-sized 3d-printers: >>=20 >> https://www.mudbots.com/ >>=20 >And 3-d house printers: >https://www.yahoo.com/news/3d-printed-homes-could-help-221842989.html This could help, if the cost of the land is reasonable and the developers using it don't just build "McMansions" priced out of the reach of the people who need housing most. There is also the size problem: young people (singles) starting out don't have a lot of (physical) stuff so don't need a lot of room (hence college dorms and military barracks); but couples/pairs-in-general will need more and those with, say, more than two kids still more. So, in the long run, the trick is to having the right size of housing available for an affordable price in the right proportions. Without, I should note, cutting down every single tree in the area. Or paving over the parks. Preferably. --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"