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Isn't the sabbath a "weekend"?
I think the term 'weekend' has connotations of not being religious, but sure, maybe weekends were invented earlier than the Industrial Revolution if the definition is generalized to 'a day when you don't work at the end of the week'.
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There is a star trek episode where they encounter a civilization which has built a benevolent AI a long time ago and has since lost capabilities to do much more than give commands to the AI. Our society has managed to write down some things like math for example so our knowledge as species won't be lost if mathematicians suddenly died. But it's harder to find permanent storage for the more skills based human activiti…
I don't know if NASA themselves could stick Saturn engines onto new rockets, but I reckon the Air Force probably could. Air force technicians are pretty good at fabricating and fitting parts from what I've seen. Skills like hand fabrication and fitting aren't something that you can store. You can record videos or interview skilled tradesmen as much as you want, but the real skill is something that is learned through…