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Hilarious to state that Seattle wins over Austin in the weather and politics categories. And completely ignores crime rates.

Mars Colony RTS with a strong emphasis on optimizing the ecosystem for self-sustainability and economic viability. 50% Age of Empires, 50% Factorio.

- Manage energy, waste, air, soil, water, food production.

- Build and expand your colony above and below ground.

- Manufacture robots, rockets, tools, everything your colony needs.

- Keep your population healthy through infection, virus, disease outbreaks.

- Control immigration/emigration policies to optimize skills and capabilities.

- Explore the planet and gain scientific skills and funding.

- Declare independence from earth and fight a war if you so choose.

Expansion packs: spread your empire to space, asteroids, and other planets. Basically The Expanse but in an RTS.

Store it on the Bitcoin blockchain in the OP_RETURN field [1][2]. Note that this is considered an abuse of the system and discouraged, but of all the systems available now, Bitcoin is most likely to still be around in some form in 500 years IMO.

[1] https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/39347/how-to-sto...

[2] http://www.righto.com/2014/02/ascii-bernanke-wikileaks-photo...

Two thoughts:

- I'd be very surprised if Apple releases their AR headset without a similar-size (70% or more) investment over the preceding decade. RDT&E for environment-aware devices is incredibly expensive.

- Defense funding and procurement amounts often shock those not in the industry, but the truth is that the entire market for most of what the DoD funds is...the DoD. Sure, a lot of the components and IP can be reused in the commercial sector, but for most programs the DoD has to fund both the initial R&D and the unit sales, because the market is so much smaller and device sales are heavily restricted (e.g. ITAR). The DoD also has MUCH broader and stricter requirements for security, safety, reliability, and compliance with a daunting array of standards and processes than the commercial industry. To be clear, this is on net a good thing for the DoD and by extension the rest of the USA, but it does increase development costs.

Certainly there is profit being made by Microsoft here, that's kind of the point of partnering with the DoD. But the intuitive comparison of "DoD programs should cost the same as developing a commercial equivalent" that many of us make is fundamentally apples and oranges in both the product development and the economics.

Here’s a video of early testing for the previous generation Nova: https://vimeo.com/326968277

Newer models (Nova 2+) are much faster and explore in multi-level buildings.