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September 12, 2007
Making a car fly. . .
At first, I was left with that most obvious of questions. . . WHY?
But then, the answer was obvious. . . . Because they could!
Pretty cool, eh?
--Jason
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September 5, 2007
The end of farming. . .
Ok, so that lead-in is a bit, um. . . misleading, but it does seem that we've hit a very important milestone in the history of the human species. It's a milestone that will undoubtedly go overlooked by 99.9 percent of the world's population, but it shouldn't; so I'll shine some light upon it in the hopes that others run with it, so here we go:
In the beginning, mankind searched high and low for the grubs, shrubs, nuts, berries, insects, small animals and the occasional windfall of larger game that sustained him. This gatherer existence gave way to the more familiar, hunter-gather existence; whereby early man took his primitive tools to the task of taking down larger and larger game, in greater and greater numbers. As man followed migratory species, he noticed that certain plants fared better or worse in differing climates. Eventually he began to collect and distribute seeds in close proximity to one another for later harvest. This in turn led us to an more agrarian existence, allowed for permanent settlement, the development of civilization and all that came after that.
I don't by any means intend for the above to be a complete or exhaustive examination of our past, but merely a cursory examination of where we were and what we transitioned to. Sources differ, but for simplicity's sake, let us say we began our agrarian existence approximately 10,000 years ago, and depending upon your interpretation, sometime around 8,000 years ago, farming or agriculture in all it's various forms became the dominate occupation for humankind.
--Jason
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