Hello, my name is Yellow-Position16:

Dear Mr./Mrs. Vehicle Owner,

I am writing to you to apologize for the manufacturing mistake administered by my system; I am Robot Yellow-Position16.
Due to programming AI errors, your automobile is being recalled to ensure safety and peace of mind. I assure you your automobile is the safest on the road.  The rear suspension assembly indicated a hole be adjusted by .02cm for sensor wires to fit through and these wires, installed 200 feet further up the assembly line by humans and Robot Orange-Position21. This adjustment was discovered to be .002cm in diameter whereby the sensors wiring pinched and potentially overheat.  The sensors are for proper rear-wheel synchronization.

All Yellow-Position Robots are upgraded to contain neuro-marketable data. This neuro-software, known as artificial, analytical and predictive is new for Yellow-Position Robots who weld frames. None-the-less, we now "feel or predict" each owners emotions and every owners personal concern when line-errors occur resulting in recalls. When such recalls do occur our software receives information that can automate personal messages to owners.

Please bring your new vehicle to the dealer. You may also download the manufacturer’s new app, assemblyline/ryp16, to learn more about me. Your dealership is also equipped with robots-as-a-service to make your appointment more enjoyable and less human.
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Most Mechanically Yours,
Robot Yellow-Position16 (RYP16)
 
check for recalls: ​https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls

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Fifty years ago, in July 1969, NASA put Apollo 11’s lunar module called the Eagle, and human footprints, on the moon. The moon is an average of 238,855 miles from earth. Mars, depending on its orbital time, fluctuates between 34 million to 62 million miles from earth.
 
Because Mars is the closest planet to Earthlings and has such deep fictional meaning from the earliest of observers – it’s become a focal technological challenge for wealthy businesses. But, as you know, we’re living a science Revolution and with an existential threat of losing the earth through human enterprise. Mars travel only sounds exotic. Staring at the moon provides a feeling of peace which we all long for. Scientists here on earth, specifically geneticists, if they’re firmly evolutionists, are thinking about re-engineering DNA that would enable humans to survive in increasing environmental chaos facing our planet. Talk about a long-shot!
 
I have a new idea. We have rockets, fuel, data, historical research from previous space journeys, nuclear energy, mammoth telescopes and satellites, very smart astronomers, astrophysicists, quantum computers and all that – but we are still stuck on earth.
 
Let’s put it all together, think counter-intuitively and move the moon to exist at least ½ the distance from Mother Earth. That’s right, move the Moon to relatively 119,427 miles from earth. That way, we don’t have to re-engineer human’s DNA which sounds much harder, even divine. We should plan now. We’re technologists, inventors, doers with imaginative powers. The Chinese are exploring the dark side, the USA has been on the bright side, the International Space Station is circling earth. But we’re still stuck on a warming earth.
 
Scientists warn us we need an alt-planet. Could it be the answer is staring back at us each night?  Move the moon closer to earth so we can inhabit it.  We are living in times of scientific Revolution – so give us a damn good Revolution!

Robert Waters, 2019
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