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| BrianHG:
Arrrgggg, again. I just started watching a TV series called 'Revolution' from 2012. OK, I give them the 'magic effect' of no electricity anywhere, even from batteries. 100% fair. But, the claim of they cant pump water or plow their fields. They show candles still work. Any old hand-cranked diesel tractor engines (many farmers still have them even if they are not in use today) with no electronics whatsoever should burn diesel as well and run perfectly fine. And, why cant they still not use old fashioned wind mills for pumping water, let alone old fashioned diesel engines to do the same job. Has all scientific knowledge and it's use become taboo? I bet some old WW2 tanks with diesel engines and a hand cranked inertia-starter should also still work fine. |
| Andy Chee:
--- Quote from: BrianHG on February 11, 2024, 05:46:05 am ---Has all scientific knowledge and it's use become taboo? --- End quote --- Published scientific knowledge online can potentially be lost in a digital apocalypse. Printed books in libraries can also be burnt and destroy much scientific knowledge. Today's generation prefers to "look things up on Google" rather than committing knowledge to their brains (well they might commit useless knowledge, like who Taylor Swift's latest boyfriend is). I don't know what the premise of 'Revolution' is, but I can easily imagine a human society where established scientists are regarded as heretics and are executed. Such a society then has to re-learn science from scratch. |
| 5U4GB:
--- Quote from: Andy Chee on February 11, 2024, 05:59:36 am ---I can easily imagine a human society where established scientists are regarded as heretics and are executed. --- End quote --- If you're a scientist working in the field environmental science, in particular as it applies to climate change, or vaccines, or responding to pandemics, we're already not too far from that now... |
| coppercone2:
get out of my cash flow you ******* hippy!! |
| SiliconWizard:
Do you think as Homer said in the Iliad, that "Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed." ? |
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