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This is probably going to accelerate a self sustaining city on Mars by a decade. The deltav difference to get to Mars from the moon is ~1/5th that of going from Earth to Mars. If we did not have heavy industry on the moon, it means we would have to lift every single ton of material from the insane gravity well of the Earth for a Mars city. If we do have heavy industry on the moon, then we only have to lift organics, people and Earth specific equipment to Mars. The rest, (metals, silicates, water etc) can be sent for 1/5th the cost from the moon. Essentially, building a Moon industrial base is a compounding factor to a Mars city. Absolutely not needed if you want to visit Mars - but the Moon is a "planet" sized resource depo, close to us in time, but far from us in the gravity well. We should invest into developing it into a heavy industry base. The gravity well of the Earth is a fools errand to fight, but the moon is our "all your base are belong to us".

Claude just drove a Mars rover. yes, the same AI you use to write emails. NASA let it plan a 400-meter drive across Mars and it worked. Here's why this is wild: when you send a command to Mars, there's a 20-minute delay. You can't steer the rover like a remote control car. you plan the entire route, hit send, and pray nothing goes wrong. in 2009, NASA's Spirit rover got stuck in sand and never moved again. Game over. so every drive has to be perfect. usually, human engineers spend hours planning each route. Looking at images, plotting waypoints, checking for hazards. this time, they gave Claude the same images and said "plan the route." Claude: • Looked at satellite photos • Analyzed the terrain • Planned the path point by point • Checked its own work • Made corrections NASA ran the plan through their simulator. Over 500,000 checks. Result? Only tiny tweaks needed. they sent it to Mars. The rover drove the route successfully. Time saved: 50% but here's what nobody's talking about: this ain't special Mars AI. This is regular Claude. The one you can use right now. if it can handle a $2.7 billion rover on another planet.. what else can it handle? NASA just showed us that AI isn't just for writing code or making images anymore. It's making real decisions. In real environments. With real consequences. the same AI that helps you draft emails just navigated a robot across Mars. Let that sink in.

Electricity prices going up due to AI data center construction across America has become a big enough political issue that President Trump is asking Big Tech to be responsible in their data center plans and Microsoft has pledged to cooperate. Meanwhile, sustainability has disappeared from the Big tech vocabulary in the rush to AI, and that tells you how much conviction they had about climate change. It was always part of their virtue-signaling, nothing more. In India, we have no option but to seek an energy-efficient, sustainable approach to AI and I believe that is possible. I don't view climate change as a political issue, but as part of the broader question of how humanity can live in harmony with nature.