Leonardo Da vinci

[Johnny Pneumatic]

I finally caught the show on the Science Channel about Leo's Machines and his life. Very cool. I thought the parachute would work, it did. I thought the tank would work, it did. I didn't think the UBA(underwater breathing apparatus) would work, it did! I want one! I learned very much more about this amazing man than I knew before. The tragic thing was none of his ideas impacted history. These things were only invented three and four centuries after his death, or in the case of medical observations, all the way to early last century. Fools say religion/superstition causes no harm, yeah, sure it doesn't. If there's one consolation, it's that if his inventions and medical observations wouldn't have been forgotten, no one alive, none of use would have ever existed. History had to have happened just the way it did for we specific people to exist.

 

[Ashles]

If there's one consolation, it's that if his inventions and medical observations wouldn't have been forgotten, no one alive, none of use would have ever existed. History had to have happened just the way it did for we specific people to exist.

That's quite a silver lining! Presumably we can say that any bad thing in history has the upside that we are all here now.

Hitler, slavery, the Crusades, all wars...

I suppose it's correct, but it seems a bit depressing and fatalist.

 

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Re: Re: Leonardo Da vinci

That's quite a silver lining! Presumably we can say that any bad thing in history has the upside that we are all here now.

Hitler, slavery, the Crusades, all wars...

I suppose it's correct, but it seems a bit depressing and fatalist.

Yeah you could.
Depressing, I don't know. Fatalist, not at all. We aren't fated to do certain things, just very certain things had to happen for us to exist. Fire can't exist without fuel, oxygen and heat.

Anyway, are there plans online to make Leo's UBA? With cheaper modern parts that is. Pig skin and cow leather is pricey don't ya' know.

 

[CplFerro]

Shades of Liebniz's best of all possible bloody worlds.