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i know nicola tesla and albert einstein have been instrumental in getting us to the point that solar powered cars are the std issue, the status quo.
but, what about a world without the advancement of technology? the siberians, american indians, etc. had bows & arrows. can we allow that?
so, just how much technology is enough? anyone know for sure?
humans without technology? is that a oxymoron?
we're meant to populate the planets around the stars, or not?
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If being stupid allows me to believe in Him, I'd wish to be a retard. Eisenhower and G Washington should be good company.
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are you suggesting we don't konow from whince we come, where we are, nor where we're headed next?
i mean, i'm just trying to understand.
is thee a plan, or is it all a free-for-all more or less?
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i for one wish we had never crawled out of the mud. it was easier in the mud.
My diploma is a DD214
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For sure.
Technology is just one facet of evolution which is eternally cyclical, or in layman's terms, 'circular'. You have to think in circles to understand it.
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I doubt it!
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Well then , if so, Gus would be a professor.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If being stupid allows me to believe in Him, I'd wish to be a retard. Eisenhower and G Washington should be good company.
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i have responded but all my posts got lost in the etheral.
y'all carry on,
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We would be not talking to each other on the Net.
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“In Trump We Trust.” Right????
SOMEBODY please tell TRH that Netanyahu NEVER said "Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away."
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Everything happens for a reason.
Gus might not ever know the reason why but everything happens for a reason.
Roll with it Gus, quit worrying so much.
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It's not so bad screaming around in a 1978 Toyota with normal aspiration via Weber. Stick and string don't bother me neither. Primitive dental care? Count me out!
Each technology is incrementally advancing individually, not all as a whole unit with some preconceived outcome in mind. Nobody is setting the bar and asking us to raise it.
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Without technology most of us would be DEAD from starvation.
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
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Pre 'computerized/EPA'd' diesel engines are where it's at.
That technology peaked awhile back.
Still possible to grow food without the latest 'improvement'.
The level of production per acre has for sure increased with new practices not necessarily new technologies. Some of both I guess.
The medical field is really the only thing I think we need to keep improving on. Amazing what our doctors and scientists can figure out.
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Pre 'computerized/EPA'd' diesel engines are where it's at.
That technology peaked awhile back.
Still possible to grow food without the latest 'improvement'.
The level of production per acre has for sure increased with new practices not necessarily new technologies. Some of both I guess.
The medical field is really the only thing I think we need to keep improving on. Amazing what our doctors and scientists can figure out. netin
to this i can agree. it's amazing what's going on in bio-technology in mediciene and the food sciences with both plants and animals. not everyone might like it, but genetic engineering is probably here to stay unless the Luddites pass laws against it.
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Pre 'computerized/EPA'd' diesel engines are where it's at.
That technology peaked awhile back.
Still possible to grow food without the latest 'improvement'.
The level of production per acre has for sure increased with new practices not necessarily new technologies. Some of both I guess.
The medical field is really the only thing I think we need to keep improving on. Amazing what our doctors and scientists can figure out.
I guess it depends on your definition of technology. Those diesel engines you mention are certainly technology. All the fertilizers, pesticides, and even those "practices" you mention are technologies developed, often, in our universities. In the last 110 years we've gone from it taking 30% of the population to feed this country, to 2% feeding it 10 times over. The modern American farmer is an incredible marvel of modern innovation.
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
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We would be up that well known creek without a paddle. Paddles were a very early form of technology.
Leo of the Land of Dyr
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“In Trump We Trust.” Right????
SOMEBODY please tell TRH that Netanyahu NEVER said "Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away."
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We are headed for a survival war next.
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Clothes, spears and rocks are technology. Ready to go hunting bare handed & naked?
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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I've seen it already on TV.
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I've seen it already on TV. i suspect thatas a society we have invested so much in technology there's no going back. if a neutron or plasma bomb or whatever goes off, we won't have a fall back position. well, most of us won't, but a few of us might? STARting from scratch would not be an easy task. without distributed fuel, electricity and food supplies, adapting to a fast & furious change would be detrimental to one's well-being. maybe we'll know how to get to Mars before it's too late?
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