Vanderbeam will have these occasional moments where he shines through his own mental fog. He’s the epitome of “one step forward 2 steps back” of course, but every now and again he is capable of making people say “where is that the rest of the time?”
… assuming they used their resources no less inefficiently than we do.
… which is a horrible assumption because we use our resources very ineffiently and could easily support 10 times the current human population even using the resources the exact same way we use them right now.
Some of you people need to step out of the cities and realize just exactly how big this planet actually is.
You know, robots made of gold actually might help. One of the advantages of gold is that due to its softness you can make smaller, thinner things out of gold than you can out of other metals. Golden needles could concievably be the best way to get the highest possible thread count. And if the robots were gold because they were particularly small for superfine work, and gold was the best material to make a robot that could work cloth with maximum attention to fine detail, you could wind up with a vastly superior product.
This might make more sense if people know that the strip was originally named “Starslip Crisis.”