OK Michael, Continuing the engineering analogies. Submarine and (heavier or lighter than air) aircaft both depend on foundations. Banks and shores and beds of the body of water, gravitation of a planet for the atmosphere. So forget trains and boats and planes, and forget hi-rise glass buildings and not even space-elevators free us from this ...
Spacecraft ... ? ... well, once we're are in deep space independent of not only planetary but galactic gravitation ... you architects may be on your own, for a while .... but we will simply arrive at the cosmic question of what the universe(s) is / are, and we find another glazed boundary through which we'd love to engineer a door, or even get a sneak preview of what lies beyond ... but ... Oops we're back where we started. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, bleeding-edge glazing, great light show, great sound-track, but all menu and no food. The fly-bottle. Turtles all the way down. Ian On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Michael Poloukhine <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5 Feb 2009 at 0:03, [email protected] wrote: > >> Ian >> MP, nice to be accused of being wholly logical for a change, I used >> to dream of being wholly logical ;-) >> >> Some great analogies of that which we discuss in Lamb Lies Down >> too. The footer of my blog has a permanent reminder that Rael is not >> real. > MP: Glad you picked up on that, I was hoping I was obvious enough! I > particularly related to you "how I got here" story. > > "It" although rather juvenile and simplistic, does open up a whole lot of > questions in the end though that relate to all this discussion, doesn't it? > >> Ian >> Eventually your door guys will need an engineer (or a neat trick, >> ingenuity) unless they find a "foundation" to stand on outside one >> of those doors. > MP: Yes, but there's also the thought to consider that we are assuming we are > in a house. What if its a submarine? An airplane? Or a spaceship? Opening a > window could be an decision with unfortunate consequences... > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
