RE: Discussions with Zen
September 10, 2013 at 7:56 am
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2013 at 8:19 am by KichigaiNeko.)
pocaracas Wrote:Awesome concept... don't know how I could apply it at my home... maybe when the kids have grown and left...I would suggest you implement it NOW. Mum and Dad NEED time (say about 30 mins whilst the kiddies are watching their favourite TV program) to have a discussion. Besides it would be a good influence on them (the kiddies) that males and females actually TALK to each other rather than being servants to a brood of kiddies.
pocaracas Wrote:"have become", or "have always been, for the most part"?
In this day and age I am being generous and leaning towards "become"
pocaracas Wrote:Take away the people and the wealth that money represents will mostly go away, yes... but some will still be around.
A friend of mine once drew my attention to the fact that the value money has is mostly psychological. Money is valued because people perceive that money as something they can use to exchange for other things.
Not all money is equal.... would you accept monopoly money in exchange for your hard earned carrots?
That's the whole point. You ARE accepting monopoly $$ for you hard earned carrots. Your friend is correct (in my thinking) that $$ are psychological-idea construct and the only system we function within...take that away (people and structure) and what do you have?
pocaracas Wrote:Fission and fusion rely on heating the material around with fast neutrons.
Matter/anti-matter annihilate and release only photons... in opposing directions! Look into solar sails and you'll probably come to the conclusion that photons don't give off that much power... although you should be getting the full energy of the two particles that annihilated.
There's a huge plus: no waste! everything gets turned to light.
And there's a huge con: The trouble* of handling anti-matter...
*trouble, as in amount of energy required.
This is Zen's area of interest (as I stated) apparently it is more to do with $cost$ than anything else
pocaracas Wrote:Living in an apartment, "home garden" is something that goes missing, we do have a few pots with flowers and stuff, but nothing we can live of.
Perhaps, some day...
Even "apartment living" can yield results so think about it? Your recycling, use of electricity, purchasing locally grown food and container gardening (if you have a balcony) all help. Heck, if people can grow hydroponic marijuana why not food?
pocaracas Wrote:When reasonable, I eat it... when it sounds like too much of a stretch, I try to dig deeper... take Syria... it's starting to look an awful lot like Iraq.
On the other hand, news like this, sound reasonable:
http://rt.com/news/radiation-tepco-fukushima-leak-637/
It does sound reasonable. And yes Syria is like Iraq...it's all about the oil.
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
