TED Talk Favorite: Janine Benyus' 3.8 Billion Years of Nature-Inspired Design
/ Anne EnkeJanine Benyus and the Biomimicry movement are gaining enormous respect in the world of product innovation and design. The biometric path is simple and described in four steps: quieting human cleverness; listening to life’s genius; echoing what we learn; and giving thanks.
Partnering with Nature is an eyebrow-raising metaphor for super-rational human minds coming to grips with understanding that human brilliance in innovation and scientific discovery may also kill planet Earth.
Men [and fewer women] should be partnering with Nature, not dominating her.
Read MoreArtemis 1 Lifts Off To the Moon | MAGA Will Not Stop Us
/ Anne EnkeNASA's technological marvel, next-generation moon rocket blasted off from Florida early on Wednesday, November 16, 2022 on its debut flight.
No matter what you hear or read — no matter how many fake conspiracies make their way onto Twitter today — the 32-story Space Launch System (SLS) rocket surged off the launch pad from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral at 1:47 a.m. EST (0647 GMT).
Its Orion capsule is now traveling on a three-week test journey around the moon and back T Earth on Dec. 11, 2022.
Just a week after patriotic Americans reclaimed democracy at our 2022 midterm elections, Artemis 1 gives us another reason to be hopeful.
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/ Anne EnkeNASA space agency will try again to launch its Artemis 1 mission moon rocket— the most powerful ever — on Saturday pm September 3. Complications continue.
Looming weather and hydrogen-loading issues cancelled Monday’s Artemis 1 launch.
Will the new heat shield withstand a searing 5,000 degrees?
"We are stressing Orion beyond what it was actually designed for, in preparation for sending it to the moon with a crew," said Cabana, last week. "And we want to make sure that it works absolutely perfectly when we do that."
Orion is the space capsule traveling on a 32-story rocket, and NASA intends to push it beyond every possible limit. With this mindset driving the mission, the team will take chances not possible with humans on board. One assumes that the dummy data will tell scientists if they lived or died.
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