Both the next 3D printer and Deutsche Bank derivatives portfolio were designed by us, the human people.
When are we going to get our act together?
“We research and develop groundbreaking, cost-effective robotic technology with which we can 3D-print beautiful, functional objects in almost any form,” wrote MX3D on the project Web page. “The ultimate test? Printing an intricate, ornate metal bridge for a special location to show what our robots and software, engineers, craftsmen and designers can do.”
And why do we need the pope to remind us that the Earth is the only home we’ve got?
“Scientists weary after years of often vicious opposition by doubters of their climate-change findings see this year as crucial to the planet’s future because of a religious document expected from Pope Francis on Thursday. The rare encyclical, or teaching letter, expected to promote climate action as a moral imperative could do more to slow global warming than international negotiations this year to limit greenhouse gas emissions, scientists say.”
Oh, I forgot. Right now we are still under ‘the spell’, we have somehow convinced ourselves that having money, loads of it, trumps every thing else.
We’ll get over it, sooner or later. Francis Bacon has already warned us, all we need is to remember.
Or, even better, we can ask ourselves:
What is money, instrument or goal?
Some pictures for you to consider:
http://www.businessinsider.com/shocking-photos-of-humanitys-devastating-impact-on-the-earth-2015-6
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“Catholic League President Bill Donohue said this week that Catholics did not have to follow Pope Francis’ teachings on Climate Change because God never specifically expressed an opinion about it.”
God never said a lot of things, He knew we’ll never be able to remember everything.
That’s why He gave us Free Will and made us responsible for our future:
‘To your offspring I will give this land’ (Genesis, 24:7)
Then how come we dare spoil the land that was meant for our children?
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/catholic-league-president-pope-wrong-on-climate-change-because-god-never-said-air-pollution-is-intrinsically-evil/
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“Her core discovery, made with a co-author, Erik M. Conway, was twofold. They reported that dubious tactics had been used over decades to cast doubt on scientific findings relating to subjects like acid rain, the ozone shield, tobacco smoke and climate change. And most surprisingly, in each case, the tactics were employed by the same group of people.
The central players were serious scientists who had major career triumphs during the Cold War, but in subsequent years apparently came to equate environmentalism with socialism, and government regulation with tyranny.
In a 2010 book, Dr. Oreskes and Dr. Conway called these men “Merchants of Doubt,” and this spring the book became a documentary film, by Robert Kenner. At the heart of both works is a description of methods that were honed by the tobacco industry in the 1960s and have since been employed to cast doubt on just about any science being cited to support new government regulations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/science/naomi-oreskes-a-lightning-rod-in-a-changing-climate.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur
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[…] Just as money is a very good tool/servant but a lousy goal/master, equality is a commendable goal but a lousy tool. Human beings ‘work best’ as autonomous individuals who cooperate freely inside what has been described as ‘free market’. Whenever that market was cornered, either from outside – by the government, or from inside – too many of the players acting in ‘concert’/sync because they had been ‘mesmerized’, remember the ‘Tulip mania” of yore? – it had faltered. Sometimes abysmally. Attempting to fit everybody in a ‘one size fits all’ mould would be catastrophic. Just as catastrophic as when less and less people can develop and express their true potential. Remember that we haven’t changed, biologically, during the last 50 000 years or so. But, generation after generation, we’ve been able to do more and more things simply because each generation made it easier for the next one. Most of the times, anyway. Let’s not change this. […]
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Are we nuts? As a species, I mean
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