OT: Speaking of bicycling

[daud....@gmail.com]

[synergeo] Earth-friendly, Hitler's enemy: Bicyclism #tensegrity
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11:01 (2 hours ago)

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/books/review/two-wheels-good-jody-rosen.html

From the start, as Rosen shows, the bicycle has magnetized political opinions. Its cheapness and mobility have aided insurgencies of every kind, whether feminism or socialism, and as a means of travel, it immediately challenged the moneyed holders of horseflesh, a “people’s nag,” or, as a famous ad from the manufacturer Columbia put it, “An Ever-Saddled Horse Which Eats Nothing.” Rosen, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, amasses his examples of these issues expertly. “One of Adolf Hitler’s first acts upon assuming power, in 1933,” he writes, in a disquieting passage, “was to smash Germany’s cycling union.”

These political connotations survive into our own day, of course, with the crucial addition of the bike’s negligible environmental impact. Those most likely to suffer the consequences of climate change are also those least likely to be contributing to it in their choice of conveyance. “Pedal-driven taxis jam the streets of Singapore and Manila,” he writes. “Subsistence farmers in Vietnam, India and other countries use modified bikes to plow and till and harrow. In Peru, bicycles function as mobile fruit and vegetable stalls; in Zambia, cycles bring goods to marketplaces and the sick to hospitals. … It is pedal power that keeps cities running, that keeps commerce flowing, that stands between life and death.” Around the world, “more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of transportation.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTT7i3SKpMQ
The Amazing Way Bicycles Change You| Anthony Desnick | TEDxZumbroRiver

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There are ~ 8,000,000,000 humans alive today.

There are ~ 1,000,000,000 automobiles alive today.

Which will survive the other?

Partial solution? Bamboo bicycle, carbon fiber parts, ceramic ball bearings, aerodynamic-safety shells, solar power motor assist limited to average walking speed (for hilly areas), bikes linkable as human-propelled train cars/subway cars (with solar powered assist).

It really is time to optimize social bicycle evolution in synchrony with today's living and tomorrow's surviving and thriving.

Cars are ok, I'm not out to demonize them, they have so much usefulness. But they have extremely severe limitations in human society and are unalterably linked to difficulties in the future.

DD

[jillery]

On Sat, 28 May 2022 10:09:32 -0700 (PDT), "daud....@gmail.com"
<daud....@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>[synergeo] Earth-friendly, Hitler's enemy: Bicyclism #tensegrity
>DDeden via groups.io <daud.deden=gmai...@groups.io>
>11:01 (2 hours ago)
>
>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/books/review/two-wheels-good-jody-rosen.html
>
>From the start, as Rosen shows, the bicycle has magnetized political opinions. Its cheapness and mobility have aided insurgencies of every kind, whether feminism or socialism, and as a means of travel, it immediately challenged the moneyed holders of horseflesh, a “people’s nag,” or, as a famous ad from the manufacturer Columbia put it, “An Ever-Saddled Horse Which Eats Nothing.” Rosen, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, amasses his examples of these issues expertly. “One of Adolf Hitler’s first acts upon assuming power, in 1933,” he writes, in a disquieting passage, “was to smash Germany’s cycling union.”
>
>These political connotations survive into our own day, of course, with the crucial addition of the bike’s negligible environmental impact. Those most likely to suffer the consequences of climate change are also those least likely to be contributing to it in their choice of conveyance. “Pedal-driven taxis jam the streets of Singapore and Manila,” he writes. “Subsistence farmers in Vietnam, India and other countries use modified bikes to plow and till and harrow. In Peru, bicycles function as mobile fruit and vegetable stalls; in Zambia, cycles bring goods to marketplaces and the sick to hospitals. … It is pedal power that keeps cities running, that keeps commerce flowing, that stands between life and death.” Around the world, “more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of transportation.”
>_._,_._,_
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTT7i3SKpMQ
> The Amazing Way Bicycles Change You| Anthony Desnick | TEDxZumbroRiver
>
>DDeden via groups.io <daud.deden=gmai...@groups.io>
>
>There are ~ 8,000,000,000 humans alive today.
>
>There are ~ 1,000,000,000 automobiles alive today.

OTOH there are more guns in the U.S. than there are people or cars.

<https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081>
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The US ratio of 120.5 firearms per 100 residents, up from 88 per 100
in 2011, far surpasses that of other countries around the world.
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>Which will survive the other?
>Partial solution? Bamboo bicycle, carbon fiber parts, ceramic ball bearings, aerodynamic-safety shells, solar power motor assist limited to average walking speed (for hilly areas), bikes linkable as human-propelled train cars/subway cars (with solar powered assist).
>
>It really is time to optimize social bicycle evolution in synchrony with today's living and tomorrow's surviving and thriving.
>
>Cars are ok, I'm not out to demonize them, they have so much usefulness. But they have extremely severe limitations in human society and are unalterably linked to difficulties in the future.
>
>DD

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You're entitled to your own opinions.
You're not entitled to your own facts.

[Kalkidas]

Most modern bicyclists are assholes because they think they have the
same rights as pedestrians. They travel in packs hogging the road,
riding on sidewalks and patios, and swarming into coffee shops and
restaurants where they park their bicycles all over the place, including
next to empty tables that no one can sit at because there's a damn bike
there. They don't use bike racks and can't be bothered to buy a lock.
Sometimes they even have the nerve to ask someone to "watch my bike",
while they go into a store, as if you're their valet or something.
Entitled bunch of pricks.

[daud....@gmail.com]

On Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 3:51:11 PM UTC-4, Kalkidas wrote:
> On 5/28/2022 10:09 AM, daud....@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > [synergeo] Earth-friendly, Hitler's enemy: Bicyclism #tensegrity
> > DDeden via groups.io <daud.deden=gmai...@groups.io>
> > 11:01 (2 hours ago)
> >
> > https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/books/review/two-wheels-good-jody-rosen.html
> >
> > From the start, as Rosen shows, the bicycle has magnetized political opinions. Its cheapness and mobility have aided insurgencies of every kind, whether feminism or socialism, and as a means of travel, it immediately challenged the moneyed holders of horseflesh, a “people’s nag,” or, as a famous ad from the manufacturer Columbia put it, “An Ever-Saddled Horse Which Eats Nothing.” Rosen, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, amasses his examples of these issues expertly. “One of Adolf Hitler’s first acts upon assuming power, in 1933,” he writes, in a disquieting passage, “was to smash Germany’s cycling union.”
> >
> > These political connotations survive into our own day, of course, with the crucial addition of the bike’s negligible environmental impact. Those most likely to suffer the consequences of climate change are also those least likely to be contributing to it in their choice of conveyance. “Pedal-driven taxis jam the streets of Singapore and Manila,” he writes. “Subsistence farmers in Vietnam, India and other countries use modified bikes to plow and till and harrow. In Peru, bicycles function as mobile fruit and vegetable stalls; in Zambia, cycles bring goods to marketplaces and the sick to hospitals. … It is pedal power that keeps cities running, that keeps commerce flowing, that stands between life and death.” Around the world, “more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of transportation.”
> > _._,_._,_
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTT7i3SKpMQ
> > The Amazing Way Bicycles Change You| Anthony Desnick | TEDxZumbroRiver
> >
> > DDeden via groups.io <daud.deden=gmai...@groups.io>
> >
> > There are ~ 8,000,000,000 humans alive today.
> >
> > There are ~ 1,000,000,000 automobiles alive today.
> >
> > Which will survive the other?
> >
> > Partial solution? Bamboo bicycle, carbon fiber parts, ceramic ball bearings, aerodynamic-safety shells, solar power motor assist limited to average walking speed (for hilly areas), bikes linkable as human-propelled train cars/subway cars (with solar powered assist).
> >
> > It really is time to optimize social bicycle evolution in synchrony with today's living and tomorrow's surviving and thriving.
> >
> > Cars are ok, I'm not out to demonize them, they have so much usefulness. But they have extremely severe limitations in human society and are unalterably linked to difficulties in the future.
> >
> > DD
> >
> Most

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[daud....@gmail.com]

Gasoline. Bullets.
Vs.
Food
One of these we need. The other two less so.

[Kalkidas]

On 5/28/2022 10:09 AM, daud....@gmail.com wrote:

rest deleted as off-topic.

[daud....@gmail.com]

Three Foresters

Patrick Matthew/Scotland: Described Theory of Natural Selection for Charles Darwin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Matthew & http://www.hughdower.com/guilty.html

Joseph Monier/France: transplanted trees by inventing steel-reinforced concrete https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Monier

Karl Drais/Germany: transited through forests by inventing the bicycle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Drais

[Athel Cornish-Bowden]

On 2022-05-30 08:30:41 +0000, daud....@gmail.com said:

> Three Foresters
>
> Patrick Matthew/Scotland: Described Theory of Natural Selection for
> Charles Darwin
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Matthew &
> http://www.hughdower.com/guilty.html

"Access to www.hughdower.com was denied
You don't have authorisation to view this page." I don't think I care
all that much.

Something that people who claim that Darwin stole the idea of natural
selection don't seem to understand is what Ernst Mayr said:

"Patrick Matthew undoubtedly had the right idea, just like Darwin did
on September 28, 1838, but he did not devote the next twenty years to
converting it into a cogent theory of evolution. As a result it had no
impact whatsoever."

>
> Joseph Monier/France: transplanted trees by inventing steel-reinforced
> concrete https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Monier

Relevance?

>
> Karl Drais/Germany: transited through forests by inventing the bicycle
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Drais

Relevance?


--
Athel -- French and British, living mainly in England until 1987.

[daud....@gmail.com]

I cannot fix the internet.
Mayr defended Darwin, Matthew defended natural selection.
Darwin defined natural selection in Matthew's terms, but added this little nugget: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangenesis
All is relevant to the open mind, none to otherwise.

[daud....@gmail.com]

When will motor vehicles feature add-on bipedal propulsion? Soon, I hope.

The Congo Basin is crucial to guarding the climate. But logging operations are devastating the rainforests that absorb carbon dioxide. New York Times today

A man has confessed to killing a British journalist and a Brazilian expert on Indigenous peoples in the Amazon. New York Times today

Which will win, human cumulative culture universal problem-solving technology & responsible practices, or its foundational/fundamental resource extraction-at-all-costs societal behavior?
Is it a gamble, or is there a detectable/identifiable pattern? I don't know.

Are we committing genuside/genecide?

Do we really 'need' an asteroid to finish us off? We do seem to be in a race of self-destruction commensurate with our race to improve convenience of living.

Are we engines, or are we cargo?

Humans are entering an obesity epidemic globally, in large part because we no longer carry our own weight.

Do we really need to destroy our earthly nature so we can evolve into blobs? What happened to ephemeral living?

See at 7m 30s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69_iKArvJBk

Front wheel drive
solar powered 
motor on each wheel
fast steering
1,000mile charge
Adding bipedal propulsion would only marginally increase cost while adding versatility & health benefits

[Bob Casanova]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 09:37:29 -0700 (PDT), the following
appeared in talk.origins, posted by "daud....@gmail.com"
<daud....@gmail.com>:

>On Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 1:11:11 PM UTC-4, daud....@gmail.com wrote:
>

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>
>> There are ~ 1,000,000,000 automobiles alive today.
>

Paging Christine, please pick up the ultraviole(n)t security
phone...
>
--

Bob C.

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

- Isaac Asimov

[daud....@gmail.com]

Review:

[daud....@gmail.com]

On Thursday, June 16, 2022 at 6:30:11 PM UTC-4, Bob Casanova wrote:
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