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>>3329256

They are kind of dicks like that.

The key is that automated production of everything necessary to survive and expand (food, desalination of water, life support, new living space) is possible without any sort of sophisticated robotics. Mainly because you're in an environment rich in biomass and useful minerals. Those minerals can be electromagnetically manipulated to accrete into watertight domes which can then be flushed with air, connected to life support and lived within. A great deal simpler than the massive robots expected to build a post scarcity society's housing complexes.

But there already is a frontier waiting to be settled.

Some scientists carrying an experiment module across the seafloor from the Aquarius habitat.