Comments by "" (@DanielSMatthews) on "Academy of Ideas" channel.

If you see the stages of a civilisation as segments in a circle it is possible to maintain it in a perpetual manner by constantly spawning a younger stage, thus each segment in turn experiences a progression of stages while the circle is in an aggregated steady state. This also allows for minds of a particular ilk to migrate to a segment that best suits their attitudes and motivations, however this could also accelerate the cycling by polarising each segment's society more rapidly. So can this be done at the scale of a single planet, probably not, but across an entire solar system including artificial space habitats it may be feasible, it is certainly more likely across multiple star systems as they would be less likely to homogenize due to the tyranny of distance, however the collapse or end stage for given segment in a given epoch may see them not able to sustain interstellar travel therefore the above mechanism could become disrupted if pioneers and their ideas are not able to reseed that segment, therefore it would be beholden on one stage to monitor and maintain the other segments that were in less well resourced and competent stages to ensure the circle keeps "turning".
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If you see the stages of a civilisation as segments in a circle it is possible to maintain it in a perpetual manner by constantly spawning a younger stage, thus each segment in turn experiences a progression of stages while the circle is in an aggregated steady state. This also allows for minds of a particular ilk to migrate to a segment that best suits their attitudes and motivations, however this could also accelerate the cycling by polarising each segment's society more rapidly. So can this be done at the scale of a single planet, probably not, but across an entire solar system including artificial space habitats it may be feasible, it is certainly more likely across multiple star systems as they would be less likely to homogenize due to the tyranny of distance, however the collapse or end stage for given segment in a given epoch may see them not able to sustain interstellar travel therefore the above mechanism could become disrupted if pioneers and their ideas are not able to reseed that segment, therefore it would be beholden on one stage to monitor and maintain the other segments that were in less well resourced and competent stages to ensure the circle keeps "turning".
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@jasjay873 I'm from the future. ;-)
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@ANDY-ue7dk The Maya calendar system is just a product of their number system, an arbitrary choice, the rest is just the mechanical consequences of the interaction of repeating integer sequences of different lengths. BTW my wife's side of my family are from that culture.
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@ANDY-ue7dk Nope, it is entirely a mechanistic system and any correlations with other cyclic phenomena is entirely coincidental. It arose from their way of counting, their way of counting did not arise from a calendar devised to match observations of different phenomena in the world. You are trying to sell me a concept that is the equivalent of "rain causes clouds", which is an obvious nonsense, unless you are a Zen master?
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@chrisapgar6344 Walk away from it then. :-)
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@ANDY-ue7dk I am saying that any magical ideation you have with regard to the "deep and mystical" meanings that you think you can see in the products of the integer cycles used for counting days and years in that system are entirely figments of your imagination.
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@ANDY-ue7dk Your beliefs?
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@chrisapgar6344 It was a time zone joke, you know UTC +X etc.? 🙄
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@jasjay873 You are welcome, I have a box of that here in the garden shed, I can send you as much as you want.
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@chrisapgar6344 The jokes on you.
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@jasjay873 The saddest and most pathetic thing about trolls like you is when your delusions of grandeur lead you to getting angry and frustrated when people don't take you seriously. I've been using the web since day one in the early 1990's, and I can see people like you coming a mile away. 🤣
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@chrisapgar6344 Not going to matter to me either way, because this was always about you and your ego anyway.
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@dustinmenezes559 Dust and radiation are major barriers. Now with Helion looking to sell fusion generated electricity to Microsoft in 2028 there will be a growing market for Helium-3 and the surface of the Moon has a lot of it, however there is still no real need to send humans to do the work.
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@dustinmenezes559 Consider the economics, what do you expect to learn that is remotely profitable compared to everything else needing the same magnitude of funding?
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