I don't understand

[magid]

Why is it we can make all sorts of cool geeky things, from robots driving on Mars to nanotechnology, and yet there's still no way to repair a street so it's flat again without repaving the whole thing?

[grumble] bumpy patchwork roads [/grumble]

Comments

[magid.livejournal.com]

That sounds so cool! But what Queue said; it's so unlikely to happen.

I'm in the middle of the Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars trilogy (Kim Stanley Robinson), and there was mention of a machine that travels along a cable, salvaging it, not only spitting tracks out its posterior, but sending train cars back with salvaged stuff. I hadn't thought there was anything like this already designed/produced.