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Jon <jonmein@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>But can they repair the damaged infrastructure, the communications
>>>systems, refineries, etc...
>"Eugene Miya" <eugene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>> Can you?
>
>Some of it, perhaps (my specialization). But not all, not individually.
>I'm not planning "survival menus" either, though.
Well all choices and available resource foods are a sort of menu. Maybe
choice isn't the best word. They are just lists to ap oint.
>My question for the hunker down in bunker survivalists:
>"What problem are you trying to solve?" Planning to survive the
>aftermath of a disaster? Ok. Prudent precautions are great.
>But how about planning to prevent or avoid a disaster?
Address young Christopher. Or use m.s.
>> Specialization is for insects.
>Or for communities of humans.
I think a degree of that is the case.
>> But I think that Long and Heinlein might be wrong.
>> Specialization might not be just for insects. It might be a necessary
>> consequence for the level of technology we have.
>
>Cooperation. Social contexts. Even with simpler
>technologies, specialization can be an advantage.
Well that gets to Axelrod. It's beyond buying into Milton who's way too
old to be relevant anymore. In order words, we need a minimum threshold
beyond simple literacy. A citizen must have some serious functional
proficiency. Cyli's not here to comment on the latest Survivor:
Toughest Jobs show.
Ah they are driving the Haul road next week! I have driven that road,
but they get 18 wheelers.
>> What's a polder?
>> (w/o looking it up).
>> Zees and dikes I know and would have to deduce that a polder is the
>> recovered land. But that's possibly a limited view.
>
>Yes. Lowest point I saw on the GPS during our bike tour
>was -18ft, highest point only 302ft. We stayed north and east.
>NL mountains are in the south.
How high are NL's mountains?
>> Holland is flat.
>
>I took a 360 degree panorama in the De Hoge Veluwe.
>Open grasslands there reminded me of Texas panhandle.
I can believe that aspects of them look like the Sacrmento river delta.
Minus the windmills. We have 2 wind mills in SF GG park.
>> 1953: Everest ascended.
>
>1953, major NL flood. Early commissions cleared authorities
>of culpability for the dike failures. More recent investigative
>books suggest complacency had left some infrastructure
>without maintenance.
I vaguely recall B&W do***entaries, but that was before my time.
>>>[HHGG]
>> So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. Vol. 4 of his Trilogy.
>I wish Adams had finished volume 6 of the trilogy... RIP
Concentrate on the living.
Remember that he's writing about plausible fiction.
>>>The first books were radio series first.
>>>And which earth?
>> A fictional version of our Earth.
>
>A fiction in several serial forms...
The media should mostly be independent of the narrative.
Wells and War had to be radio at the time. That made problems for
films. And subsequent derviative sequels.
>All the HHGG references I see to the B-ark Golgafinchans
>say they did survive as human ancestors. The basis for the
>earth reappearing in volume 4 after it's destruction in volume
>1 is the plural nature of the zone. Fenchurch has troubling
>"memory" of the destruction event, and Arthur, of course
>lived through it. It took The Book, Mark II to accomplish
>the permanent destruction of all the plural Earths.
You can do parallel universes and time threads, but they are still only
theory.
Even in the program they deduced the ape creatures to be your relatives.
>> You have to know its limits.
>
>Imagination, they say, knows no limits.
Despite the existence of posters with Einstein's comment about
imagination being more im****tant than knowledge, it's the fact that
there are limits which makes knowledge possible. There was a great
Chinese quote I saw only once which noted that were every thing
possible, then that makes hard things less interesting as goals.
I wish I could find that quote. Einstein's comment was perverted for
the money and humanist naivete. You can be like Jonathan Price's
character at the end of Brazil with the lobotomy. When we could send
you off (write one off) to go trisect arbitrary angles in your
imagination.
Go with Dirty Harry.
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