From Dan to me to you
The notion of stability
is dialectically opposed
to nature.- Dan Telegdi
Energy is required in any situation to keep it from breaking apart. The more unstable the situation, the more energy is required. Energy has a fixed total value in our universe.
Then every attempt at stability destroys it somewhere else?
posted by Sj @ 6/13/2006 10:47:00 PM
3 Comments:
At 14 June, 2006 21:49,
Unknown said…
Greattttttt post. Love it.
At 15 June, 2006 20:20,
kristin said…
interesting... when i first read this yesterday I just didn't know what to say. where to start, more like it. but today I was reading my book on Biomimicry, and the current chapter is about farming. farmers throughtout history have come up with all these clever ways to stabilize the land, to get rid of weeds, make very very tidy rows that are very very easy to till... and the yields are big big big. The only teeny weeny bad part is that they are losing 1.5 inches of soil every year, fertility is declining, farmers are spending more and more to get the same yield because they are dependent on fertilizers and pesticides and believe it or not, at the core of that, oil.
maybe not what you were thinking your comments would be about but what the H, it's what i'm thinking about. so thats what i thought.
At 29 June, 2006 10:34,
El Chupacabra said…
The inhabitant of Easter Island had a pretty tough time (duh) Easter Island is a prodominately flat island with very thin layer of top soil over very dence hard rock. They had huge soil erosion problems due to ocean winds washing over the flat terrain. Also they had a problem because often it was too cold to yeild enough crops to survive. Their solution. Big black rocks. They would use the rocks both as a shield against the wind but also the rocks would absorb heat from the sun throughout the day and warm the ground at night. Cleaver I guess. But then they cut down all their trees and started eating each other, so maybe we cant rely on them for the answers to everything.
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