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9 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

 

I know what you mean.

 

We just seem to work harder and harder to buy shite that is meant to make our lives easier.

 

Not all tech is an improvement anyway.

 

To flip the back seats down in my Fiesta I press two levers and gently push the seats down.

It takes about 4 seconds and a granny could do it (and has!).

 

My wife’s Discovery had an electric version.

It broke, and they had the car in for 7 weeks to fix.

 

Progress?

The " climate control " ( read heater ) in my truck is digital . A button for the front and another for the back . You press and it slowly scrolls up or down through the numbers and you cant do both at once . What happened to the old slider that took a nano second ?

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12 hours ago, sime42 said:

 

I've often thought along similar lines myself. I think the huge amount of effort and money that's gone into space, (literally), over the years would have been far better spent on conserving this once fabulous planet of ours.

(Granted, there have been plenty of great technological spin-offs along the way.)

 

I suspect I'm going out on a limb here but I've never really seen the allure of space, it just doesn't excite me. I've no desire to go to some lifeless, inhospitable rock in the middle of nowhere to try and exist on artificial everything. Musk and his pals are very welcome to stay there if they make it. We've got, or at least did have, everything we could ever desire on this nice little cosy Earth. There's untold scientific research potential in the complexity of the myriad of lifeforms in the natural world around us. We'd do better to learn from it before it's too late I reckon.

 

As you were.

 

 

 

 

 

Me too.

We think of humans as intelligent with forethought but we are still going to pickle ourselves in our own waste much like yeast does in apple juice but there is no other apple.

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I forget the book - think it was one of the Red Dwarf spin offs - Humans have colonised space, and need a garbage dump planet, Earth lost because of the damage done to it, might as well complete the job and kill it off. Trash it and move on.

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32 minutes ago, Steven P said:

I forget the book - think it was one of the Red Dwarf spin offs - Humans have colonised space, and need a garbage dump planet, Earth lost because of the damage done to it, might as well complete the job and kill it off. Trash it and move on.

I think we're getting more towards a hitchhiker's guide, with the captain sitting in a hot tub planet

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 The idea was that a third of the population was informed they'd be sent off to colonise a new planet, and so departed in a fleet of starships. It turns out the entire crew consisted of what we might consider useless professions... car salesmen, hairdressers, I forget who exactly. 

There was no planet, they just flew around the galaxy in circles.

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Late to the thread and haven’t read it but you’re taking about the Golgafrincham B Ark from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Telephone sanitisers, marketing executives etc. They crashed on earth, wiped out the indigenous cavemen and we’re descended from them.

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1 hour ago, AHPP said:

Late to the thread and haven’t read it but you’re taking about the Golgafrincham B Ark from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Telephone sanitisers, marketing executives etc. They crashed on earth, wiped out the indigenous cavemen and we’re descended from them.

When I started harvesting, in about 1976, we cut pulp in the grounds of a cottage occupied by a load of hippieish avant-garde musicians. They were composing synth music for a theatrical production of HHG. It was the first time I ever saw a floppy disc or a wood burning stove (a Quebb IIRC). Basil still apparently plays locally.

 

It was my introduction to Douglas Adams and what I took away from it was that humans are at best a sideshow in the scheme of things.

 

Basil explained to me they recorded the sound of burning droplets of plastic falling, he called the sound zorch which I think was the name of his band, and the sound was what was fed into his synthesiser.

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