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#1 by Anonymous (Nobody) at 10 Apr 2014 15:04:17 GMT
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#2 by Anonymous (Nobody) at 11 Apr 2014 23:12:46 GMT
| Ok! Ok John, I'll bite: It has my name on it.John Michael Greer: or who hope to see some favorite teogholcny the internet, say, or space travel privileged in the same way, risk finding out the hard way that other things come first. Of course some things are more immediate but perhaps no more essential, like breathing is more immediate than water and water more immediate than food, but all are equally ESSENTIAL. You might survive longer without food than air but without food you're just as dead it just takes longer.Then there is the simple matter of what gets preserved and what sacrificed. If things turn out half as bad as you fear there are a lot of other things, the privileges of the wealthy for one, whose supporters will be desperately trying to jostle the Internet and continuing a space program out of the way.So, why do I think preserving the Internet and a space program more essential than a lot of other stuff people find more immediately appealing? Simple, both offer many benefits, some unique, both offer irreplaceable hopes for the future and both are dirt cheap for what they offer.That's right dirt cheap now that the considerable costs of developing them are sunk costs.Let's start with the Internet. The hardware is cheap in every way and getting cheaper: It costs less, uses less materials all the time, and can use less energy to operate if that is deemed important enough to design for.Don't be fooled because people CHOOSE extravagant equipment like 72 plasma displays, much smaller displays would do the job just fine.Ditto for distribution: A fiber optic (hint it's a few strands of special glass) cable laid out through a bulldozer's ripper is so much cheaper to build and maintain than any previous telecommunications system and as a free bonus offers almost unlimited capacity.As for the last mile to the house, well, that mess of copper wires actually dates to before the oil age really got going not that we'd ever build it again even though we could. No, these days we'd do what the third world is doing go straight to wireless local loops.Cheaper, easier and uses MUCH less materials.As for the benefits we can reap from keeping and extending this oh so cheap teogholcny, well I don't think I have to enumerate them to anyone here. Suffice it to say that I think the Internet is the great hope of the common person in the twenty first century, his only hope against the wealth and power accumulating at the top in much of the world.As for a space program, well, the Russians have shown the way: Gravel truck teogholcny and mass production. This, if I remember rightly, is the path Wernher Von Braun wanted the USA to take.Now let's have a look at the benefits. Well, even a very modest program that a nation of a few million people could afford could keep a network of global positioning and weather satellites up.That would pay for itself straight off.Oh! And if by any chance we're back to sailing ships, accurate, timely weather and wind information is going to keep those new big clipper ships made out of the marvellous new bio-engineered, good-a-composites quick growing wood nearly as fast and reliable as an oil age motor vessel.And of course, as just about anyone who has half seriously studied the problem knows, there is no long term survival for the human species while it is limited to one planet. Further, without robust control of the near-Earth space environment life on earth will continue to depend on Earth's so far astonishing good luck. http://voujbtn.com [url=http://xizgtzicvso.com]xizgtzicvso[/url] [link=http://bhtfwcegbv.com]bhtfwcegbv[/link] |
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