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Questions About the Failure of Technology to Proliferate Downward
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Oh, and, you do know that a movable seawall can generate electricity? Right? As it moves with the wind and tide propelled onshore and inward it absorbs energy and prevents spillover. If it resists the ocean, the water goes over and under it -- why do that with a stationary wall? And of course the "wall" can be shaped like a bulldozer and the sand recycled out through pipes to the bottom of the ocean like a reverse dredge ship. These things are simple even with limited technology. This lack of imagination seems to have been going on for thousands of years. For example, when the Egyptians invented paper and ink, why didn't they make cartoon flip books?
Z28Q ZQuteMale wrote: " ...when the Egyptians invented paper and ink, why didn't they make cartoon flip books? ..."Indeed and the Egyptians also had glue, so why did they roll the paper into scrolls instead of making pages bound into a book? I'm not sure but didn't the ancient world only write on scrolls. It seems silly and awkward... Hmm, for a long time everybody carved words in stone or marked it in clay, and then here comes paper and they don't know what to do with it.
Lumina wrote: "Awesome!"Thanks. It's too bad I'm not allowed to share in detail how we handle it with more advanced technology. I'm supposed to just observe and learn...
Sorry but I'm a bit confused.... What's this all about???
I don't mean to offend you but I'm confused...
Are you from outer space?
I don't mean to offend you but I'm confused...
Are you from outer space?
I'm from the planet Xytol. I come in peace, Bree.
A pleasure to make your acquaintance. You Earthlings inspire me.
Douglas wrote: " ...and then here comes paper and they don't know what to do with it..."I don't think I read anywhere that they ever used papyrus for toilet paper. No wonder there was disease and plagues... and worst of all: no paper planes for the children, and no paper to wrap their fast food hamburgers and French fries -- I suppose that's why later on Napoleon stole the Rosetta Stone from Egypt as revenge...
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I stand firm in my beliefs that papyrus is the best in the bathroom. Gets a person squeaky clean. Most aliens I know use it. Although we go to the bathroom through our mouths.
Cosmos wrote: "WTF??"
I repeat "WTF??"
I repeat "WTF??"
Just wondering what Lumina meant about those scrolls being used as toilet paper. Kinda weird.
After all, you have submarines that go totally underwater without flooding. Why don't you have basements with submarine doors. And why don't you seal houses like submarines. Just close the hatches. And obviously, the submarines must have oxygen to breathe, and they have food and water and power.
Why doesn't technology trickle down to handle common occurrences?
Also, I see you have the technology to make very long suspension bridges where the supports are underwater -- no problem. So build a long and wide suspension bridge and put houses on it. A bridge doesn't have to be just for cars? Does it? Is that a cultural requirement of some kind?
Why build bridges across a river when you can build it sideways in the flood plain. The farmhouse goes on the bridge and the flood and mud goes on the field and fertilizes it.