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It's been a long time since I posted here but I always watch your debates with interest. I feel that my bad English is a big obstacle enough and with everything going on I just can't find the time to attribute my voice to this glorious community. But a recent discovery has forced me to write this post.
Amongst all other things I'm doing now is involvement in building a replica of a famous WWII dive-bomber aircraft. And my part is to help digitally replicate the wing and to construct tools and aluminum cutting patterns for it's assembly. And in many hours I have devoted to this task, with all the numbers I have feed into the machine, I could never understand why is the wing shaped like that and what drove the pre-war engineers to the conclusion that this shape will serve best for this specific porpoise, neither did any of us.
The shape has finally emerged and wings are now near complete all do a lot of other things need to be done before test flight can take place, we never came up with the answer.
Today, after a phone call I glared without a porpoise to a vast field In the back of our house. Suddenly, I spotted a hawk hunting a mouse in the snow cowered plow. As he approached ground, in a down-stroke, It's wings bended and stretched under load and in an flash I saw an image of the wing I was working on for so many days.
In that split second, I finally realized: all that the engineer did was to imitate a bird hunting in the field.
We must never forget that all that we do with technology is to imitate nature. And whenever we feel lost, we must return to the nature to seek our guidance again. And whit today's busy world, it's easy to forget from where all things come and to what all things strive.
Amongst all other things I'm doing now is involvement in building a replica of a famous WWII dive-bomber aircraft. And my part is to help digitally replicate the wing and to construct tools and aluminum cutting patterns for it's assembly. And in many hours I have devoted to this task, with all the numbers I have feed into the machine, I could never understand why is the wing shaped like that and what drove the pre-war engineers to the conclusion that this shape will serve best for this specific porpoise, neither did any of us.
The shape has finally emerged and wings are now near complete all do a lot of other things need to be done before test flight can take place, we never came up with the answer.
Today, after a phone call I glared without a porpoise to a vast field In the back of our house. Suddenly, I spotted a hawk hunting a mouse in the snow cowered plow. As he approached ground, in a down-stroke, It's wings bended and stretched under load and in an flash I saw an image of the wing I was working on for so many days.
In that split second, I finally realized: all that the engineer did was to imitate a bird hunting in the field.
We must never forget that all that we do with technology is to imitate nature. And whenever we feel lost, we must return to the nature to seek our guidance again. And whit today's busy world, it's easy to forget from where all things come and to what all things strive.
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