For that, critical goods, including weapons and war-fighting materiel-but, why not, perhaps also emergency organs for frontline surgery-could be stored underwater, in the middle of the ocean, using “deployable, unmanned, distributed systems that lie on the deep-ocean floor in special containers for years at a time. Purely in terms of this logistical vision, I’m reminded of a DARPA proposal called the “ Upward Falling Payloads” program. The company’s founders imagine the capsules could store artificial organs that are delivered to an operating room within a few hours or serve as mobile field hospitals floating in orbit that would be dispatched to remote areas of the planet. Their goal is to build “earth-orbiting capsules”-“hundreds or thousands of containers”-that could “deliver goods anywhere in the world from outer space.” There was an article last year in the New York Times about a California start-up called Inversion that wants to “speed delivery of important items by storing them in orbit.”
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