Technology: Liberation or Enslavement?

1995 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 7-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
The Moon ◽  
Chuang Tzu ◽  
Return Visit ◽  
Primo Levi ◽  
Richard Nixon ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Technological Achievement

The week, twenty-five years ago, of the Apollo spacecraft's return visit to the moon was described by Richard Nixon as the greatest since the Creation. Across the Atlantic, a French Academician judged the same event to matter less than the discovery of a lost etching by Daumier. Attitudes to technological achievement, then, differ. And they always have. Chuang-Tzu, over 2,000 years ago, relates an exchange between a Confucian passer-by and a Taoist gardener watering vegetables with a bucket drawn from a well. ‘Don't you know that there is a machine with which 100 beds are easily watered in a day?’—‘How does it work?’—‘It's a counterbalanced ladle’—‘too clever to be good … all machines have to do with formulae, artificiality [which] destroy native ingenuity … and prevent the Tao from residing peacefully in one's heart’. ‘Engines of mischief, in the words of the Luddite song, or testaments to ‘the nobility of man [as] the conqueror of matter’, in those of Primo Levi, the products of technology continue to inspire phobia and philia.

scholarly journals Human Fetal Development And The Ways Of Asthabrata As An Idea In The Creation Of Sinjang Batik Tulis

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-106
Author(s):  
Danang Priyanto ◽  
FP Sri Wuryani
Keyword(s):  
Fetal Development ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Development Stages ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Human Fetal Development ◽  
Full Protection

Human beings which are wired as leaders should live based on the practice of transcendent value and total clarity on noble deeds. It functions as a guideline in living to avoid the crisis of morality that often occurs today. One of the values in this leadershipquality is the teaching of asthabrata containing the noble deeds of a leader who symbolized in the elements of the universe: the fire, the ground, the water, the air, the moon, the clouds, the sun, and the stars. The stage of human fetal development occurs from the age of one to nine months. These stages, along with the teachings of asthabrata become the base of an idea in the creation of batik art. The idea comes from the question of how to process the development stages of human fetal and ways of asthabrata as a base on creating the batik artwork which conveys sublime values about leadership. The purpose of this batik artwork creation are:incorporating the concept of human fetal development as part of human life cycle with the tradition of batik; Conveying the sublime sublime of leadership based on the asthabrata which refers to human nature as a natural born leader. The creation processcovering the method of design exploration, design process, and batik as a result of design by establishing the combination ofhuman fetal development and the asthabrata. The result shows nine sinjang batik tulis artworks, covering; Hamasesa Tan Pilih Warna (manage without seeing the color), Sukci (sacred), Hanguripi Sagung Dumadi (give strength to all life), Girise Kang Samya Miyat (be who you want to see), Sorota Hayem Angayomi (make peaceful and full protection), Jembar Tanpa Pagut(sincerity without limit), Muntir Tan Ana Pedhote (infinite rotation), Panengeraning Keblad (signpost), and Ngudi Kasampurnan(sharpening perfection). 

Mysticism

1999 ◽  
pp. 185-204
Author(s):  
Louis Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Jewish Mysticism ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Mystical Theology

This chapter highlights Jewish mysticism. It talks about Rabbi Yitshak Horowitz, also known as Reb Yitshak Masmid who is a leading exponent of mystical theology in the Habad vein. Reb Yitshak Masmid seemed to be a typical ascetic whose head reached to the heavens. He ate very little but drank heavily in the belief that alcohol could act as a stimulant to the deeper longings of the soul. The chapter also describes the traditional ceremony of the benediction over the moon (kidush levanah), which is considered to be a mystical rite. In this ceremony, carried out preferably in the open, at the beginning of the month, a benediction is recited in which God is praised for the creation of the moon and the other heavenly bodies.

Lunar Mansions and Early Calendars

1949 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 48-69
Author(s):  
Stefan Weinstock
Keyword(s):  
Early Time ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Religious Problems ◽  
Remote Past ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Revolution

Lunar mansions are twenty-eight constellations or single stars on the route of the Moon during the twenty-eight nights of its visibility. As a mere astronomical curiosity they could neither attract nor reward much attention. Accordingly learned discussions have been limited to descriptions, to controversies where and when they were first established, in Babylonia, India, or China, or to catalogues of the medieval evidence. But if it is realised that they were not observed for their own sake but because the revolution of the Moon was the basis of early time-reckoning which led to the creation of the first calendar, conclusions of more than limited interest can be produced by relating astronomical to religious problems. And this interest will be further increased by the realisation that our zodiac is nothing but the successor of the mansions as it served first the lunisolar, and then the solar, year, of which the former was a device to bring the monthly revolutions of the Moon into harmony with the annual revolution of the Sun, and the latter was based on the revolution of the Sun alone.But how can we find material to reconstruct a system which was superseded in the remote past, seeing that even the victorious system remains in important respects mysterious, e.g. the reasons for the strange selection of the signs and the presence among them of animal and human figures? We are helped by two circumstances. One is the natural conservatism of our calendars, astrological prognostics, and magical texts: these often preserve traces of earlier stages of human thought. The second circumstance is less natural.

scholarly journals El diluvio (Tlaa:wetsilis). Una narración en náhuatl de la Huasteca Veracruzana

Tlalocan ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 113-146
Author(s):  
Andrés Martínez Martínez ◽  
Valentín Peralta Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
The Moon ◽  
Spanish Translation ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Creation

This narrative is about the Great Flood and the creation of man and is told in the Nahuatl language of Tzocohuite in the municipality of Ixhuatlán de Madero, Veracruz. The myth begins with two actions carried out by the first inhabitants, a man and a woman, actions disapproved of by God, who punishes them. He sends his emissary, the rabbit, to tell the man to build an ark to save the animals and thus eliminates humans from the face of the Earth. After the Great Flood there are other events involving animals including the vulture, the dove and the hummingbird. Finally, man is punished with work and the rabbit retires to the moon, rewarded for having completed God’s orders. The Nahuatl text is presented together with a Spanish translation and interlinear morphological glosses.

The American ‘Cause’ in Vietnam, 1941-1965

Itinerario ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-78
Author(s):  
Lloyd C. Gardner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
World Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Moon ◽  
World War ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Closed Economies ◽  
Lyndon Johnson ◽  
The Creation

Before World War II, French Indochina little concerned American policymakers. The idea of sending half a million men to fight a war there would have seemed as fantastic as sending a man to the moon. Even after John F. Kennedy decided that the United States should - and could - send a man to the moon, the idea of sending half a million men to Vietnam still seemed fantastic. When George Ball expressed fears that such a possibility indeed existed if matters were allowed to continue until incremental creep became an avalanche, the president was astounded. ‘George’, Kennedy admonished him, ‘you're just crazier than hell. That just isn't going to happen.’ Historians still debate whether Kennedy would have followed the same path Lyndon Johnson took in Vietnam, thereby fulfilling George Ball's seemingly absurd prophecy. My purpose here is not to rehearse the arguments in that debate. Instead, I want to talk about the American ‘cause’ in Vietnam, and how, beginning in World War II, a generalised concern with the problem of closed economies and the creation of a post-colonial world order finally became focused on Vietnam.

Moon Village Association (MVA) Global Collaboration Framework for Lunar Missions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elissavet Koumi ◽  
Pavithra Manghaipathy
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Earth Orbit ◽  
Multiple Time ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Entry Barrier ◽  
The Public ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Lunar Missions

<p>The Moon Village Association (MVA) is a global organization that aims to foster collaboration between nations, space agencies, industry and the public, in order to facilitate the creation of a Lunar Economy. Despite its name, the purpose of the organization is not to create a base on the Moon. The "Moon Village" is the collection of people and organizations here on Earth that will collectively set Lunar activities in motion.</p> <p>The MVA's pilot mission - sending a Camera to the Lunar Surface to capture images of the earth and recreate the “Overview Effect” - aims to test in action how combining the capabilities of the MVA’s individual and institutional members can lower the entry barrier to the Lunar economy.</p> <p>The technical objective of the mission is to capture and live-stream a video of the Earth for 1 Lunar Day. The data will be broadcasted and utilized to engage the scientific community and general public to maximize mission returns for this and future missions.</p> <p>The challenge:</p> <p>Compared to Earth orbit missions, lunar missions are less prevalent, more technically complex with extra risks and completely different investment scales and timelines. This means that non-institutional space players have fewer opportunities to participate in lunar science and the creation of the Lunar Economy. There is also a lot of untapped capacity in the non-space world: Drawing a parallel to GIS, Sat Comms, Navigation etc., and progress achieved due to publicly accessible space-asset data in non-space industries, the potential benefit of opening up Lunar exploration to more players seems self-evident. The challenge is, however, enabling this global potential.</p> <p> Our talk will address this issue and will be structured to cover the following points:</p> <p>Mission description: We will describe our goals, why we decided to put a camera on the Moon, what are the technical requirements and why we selected the “Overview Effect” as our main objective.</p> <p>MVA Collaboration framework outline: This will address how we combine our varied strengths within the MVA to create a mission and how we want to see our members putting missions together in the future, on their own initiative. </p> <p>The MVA role, the role of volunteers and institutional partners: We will present how the building blocks fit together, what each side offers and receives through this collaboration.</p> <p>Lessons learned from the pre-phase A and phase A of the mission: We will discuss technical, financial, managerial, outreach and public engagement aspects, method-of-working issues, what were the biggest challenges to milestone success and how they were overcome.</p> <p>Obstacles and challenges moving forward: We will address our cost and schedule elements, paths to funding and risk management, and also ethics and responsible culture setting.</p> <p>How can someone get involved: As we are looking to engage both the scientific community and the public, we will be presenting information on where one can stay updated with our work, and what are the options for participation, either as an individual, an institution or a company.</p> <p>The talk will be designed and delivered from First Payload Project team members. The team is made up of both space and non-space industry professionals, all volunteers distributed across multiple time zones, without common working hours and a high chance of most members never meeting in person. The team is supported by the MVA’s institutional members (agencies, educational institutions and industry) in the form of in-kind contributions: an exchange of services, knowledge or materials given by the institutional member due to synergies between the mission objectives and the member’s own scientific or business objectives.</p> <p>This presentation will not focus on technical or scientific objectives or results of the 1st MVA Payload Project but on the process that is being created as a rubric for future lunar projects. From planning to set-up and further, and with the understanding that this is an ongoing process, this talk will present a guide of sorts or in the very least a detailed example of the processes necessary for private-sector lunar missions that deviate from the normal client-supplier models of institutional and Earth orbit missions.</p>

scholarly journals GENERAL METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES, PROVISIONS AND PRINCIPLES OF CREATING THE HOUSING MODULE LUNAR BASE

2021 ◽  
pp. 82-89
Author(s):  
Т.D NIKIFOROVA ◽  
S.Ye. SHEKHORKINA ◽  
О.H. ZYNKEVYCH ◽  
T.Yu. SHEVCHENKO
Keyword(s):  
Building Materials ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Processing Technologies ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Complete Life Cycle ◽  
Lunar Rocks ◽  
Article Analysis ◽  
The Creation

Problem statement. Today, the world's leading researchers are working on the creation of objects on the surface of the Moon. One of the urgent tasks is to develop living modules that provide the necessary protection for the crew of the lunar missions. Analysis of existing research has shown that in order to support long-term surface missions, the lunar infrastructure must provide the necessary functionality of the housing base, such as extraction and processing of raw materials, construction, construction of buildings and structures, life support. Purpose of the article. Analysis of the current state of scientific and applied problems and setting goals and objectives of the further study. The subject of the study is to establish the patterns of lunar bases design and operation in the human civilization interests. Conclusions. The solution of the objectives of the study using the proposed systematic approach of creating an innovative dual-use product, namely, the development of building materials, products and structures by additive technologies (3D-printing) and recommendations for their production will allow the creation of high-security building projects that can be used for development of the Moon and the Earth, which will contribute to the development of domestic territorial and industrial infrastructure. The earth and lunar rocks are extremely similar, so the earth rock processing technologies can be applied to the lunar rocks. The development of the residential module and the structures design must take into account the complete life cycle of the lunar base facilities, as well as the physiological needs of the lunar base crew.

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