May 12, 2022·edited May 12, 2022Liked by Citizen Doctor
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I, personally have serious doubts that the Apollo capsule took men to the Moon.
It was way too flimsy and primitive, and yet NASA is claiming "we have lost the technology" as main reason for not going back, implying that we have gone backwards - which we did, but definitely not technologically - and that "it is now too complicated and expensive to redo all the research". Why "redo" a fakery, when they can start fresh, and build something real ?
Skipping past this embarrassingly uncomfortable subject, education is not only a wreck, it is an already foundered wreck, laying dead at the bottom of an ocean of generalised ineptitude. It cannot be rescued anymore, it will have to be replaced by completely new ways to introduce the children to the world they have been kicked in without being asked how they feel about it.
Both curiosity and independent thought are being killed early with the hammer of "listen to the experts and obey the rules", and unless this atrocity is being stopped, there is no hope whatsoever for Mankind. None at all.
I have often wondered... What if our inventiveness and science, since the beginning, had stuck to the principles of biomimicry? https://biomimicry.org/what-is-biomimicry/
Suppose, instead of reductionistic, fragmented mindset, humanity had simply based its methods of inventiveness and creativity on Nature? For a billion years Nature has experimented, created, refined and optimized every imaginable engineering feat in order to create and sustain Her life forms. Whatever you could possibly need, Nature has already designed and optimized it. So, just mimic Nature's designs and refine it for human needs.
Just about everything mankind manufactures requires violent extraction of elements from Nature. Then those materials are subjected to very high temperatures and enormous pressures in order to fabricate 'raw' materials. Then these materials are elaborated further to eventually arrive at a finished product... a product which is often wholly divorced from and destructive to the Nature that provided it.
Nature, instead, sequesters needed elements directly from its surroundings, elaborates them at ambient temperatures and pressures, and Viola! Food, shelter, protective hardware, optimized interactions with environmental conditions.... it all happens in such a way that nothing is wasted, nothing is poisoned, nothing is degenerated.
Imagine, for example, that humanity had worked with bacteria and fungi in a natural, synergistic way for the last 3 or 4,000 years. What amazing bacterial functions and outputs would we have discovered and optimized over millennia? Imagine our farming methods had evolved from deep, careful observation and experimentation with fungi, protozoa and related soil life over all that time? Coupled with natural interactions of higher life forms, along with various bioenergies, cosmic energies and cyclical rhythms... all carefully optimized over time to develop robust and totally regenerative systems of food guilds?
If you scan through the biomimicry link above, you'll quickly see the obvious benefits to this way of thinking and approaching manufacturing - at all scales. By now humanity should be well along its way growing homes and shelters, generating all manner of fuels from bacteria, on and on and on.
I would very much like to relocate. Probably my biggest frustration is trying to find communities of like minded folks. Do you know of any resources to find these places? Perhaps subject for another article. Cheers.
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I, personally have serious doubts that the Apollo capsule took men to the Moon.
It was way too flimsy and primitive, and yet NASA is claiming "we have lost the technology" as main reason for not going back, implying that we have gone backwards - which we did, but definitely not technologically - and that "it is now too complicated and expensive to redo all the research". Why "redo" a fakery, when they can start fresh, and build something real ?
Skipping past this embarrassingly uncomfortable subject, education is not only a wreck, it is an already foundered wreck, laying dead at the bottom of an ocean of generalised ineptitude. It cannot be rescued anymore, it will have to be replaced by completely new ways to introduce the children to the world they have been kicked in without being asked how they feel about it.
Both curiosity and independent thought are being killed early with the hammer of "listen to the experts and obey the rules", and unless this atrocity is being stopped, there is no hope whatsoever for Mankind. None at all.
I have often wondered... What if our inventiveness and science, since the beginning, had stuck to the principles of biomimicry? https://biomimicry.org/what-is-biomimicry/
Suppose, instead of reductionistic, fragmented mindset, humanity had simply based its methods of inventiveness and creativity on Nature? For a billion years Nature has experimented, created, refined and optimized every imaginable engineering feat in order to create and sustain Her life forms. Whatever you could possibly need, Nature has already designed and optimized it. So, just mimic Nature's designs and refine it for human needs.
Just about everything mankind manufactures requires violent extraction of elements from Nature. Then those materials are subjected to very high temperatures and enormous pressures in order to fabricate 'raw' materials. Then these materials are elaborated further to eventually arrive at a finished product... a product which is often wholly divorced from and destructive to the Nature that provided it.
Nature, instead, sequesters needed elements directly from its surroundings, elaborates them at ambient temperatures and pressures, and Viola! Food, shelter, protective hardware, optimized interactions with environmental conditions.... it all happens in such a way that nothing is wasted, nothing is poisoned, nothing is degenerated.
Imagine, for example, that humanity had worked with bacteria and fungi in a natural, synergistic way for the last 3 or 4,000 years. What amazing bacterial functions and outputs would we have discovered and optimized over millennia? Imagine our farming methods had evolved from deep, careful observation and experimentation with fungi, protozoa and related soil life over all that time? Coupled with natural interactions of higher life forms, along with various bioenergies, cosmic energies and cyclical rhythms... all carefully optimized over time to develop robust and totally regenerative systems of food guilds?
If you scan through the biomimicry link above, you'll quickly see the obvious benefits to this way of thinking and approaching manufacturing - at all scales. By now humanity should be well along its way growing homes and shelters, generating all manner of fuels from bacteria, on and on and on.
I would very much like to relocate. Probably my biggest frustration is trying to find communities of like minded folks. Do you know of any resources to find these places? Perhaps subject for another article. Cheers.
Excellent article.
Here is an article about modular hardware from a favorite site of mine:
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/12/how-to-make-everything-ourselves-open-modular-hardware.html