TED Community ยป John Findlay

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  • A comment on Conversation: I would like to hear people's perspectives about an inherent lack of respect in our culture, and how we can teach transcendence of such?

    May 31 2012: A simple thing to do is give back to teachers the power they had 30 plus years ago, the cane and other punishment of the time is the answer ! Anyone who has ever had the cane in school will agree with me. Step out of line and INSTANT ! punishment. The only difference I would ask from the past is that it must be witnessed by another teacher on roster. The mamby pamby talk to kids think is a failure.
    We are seriously starting to pay for the failed social experiment.
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    A comment on Conversation: Do you have a small idea to make this world Green? Mention if you already use it.

    May 31 2012: Get solar panels and a rain water tank, thats a dam good start. By an old car thats reliable and efficent, eg Toyota Corolla and have it tuned properly. (it saves by not being replaced with a new one) Buy a small cc motorcycle for picking up bread etc. Renovate good furniture.

    Buy better stuff that lasts rather than cheap stuff that fails early. eg I bought my stereo 30 years ago before CD's, Its still better than most of the newer stuff you buy today (by sound quality).
  • A comment on Conversation: The next manufacturing evolution and how we can use it to get to Mars and beyond.

    May 29 2012: Less than 5 minutes ago: Current technologies are paving the way for this type of manufacturing in the near future.
    Join the dots, here is the future !
    http://www.gizmag.com/two-photon-lithography-fast-3d-printer/21800/
    http://www.gizmag.com/solar-sinter-3d-printer/19046/
    http://www.gizmag.com/d-shape-3d-printer/21594/
    http://www.gizmag.com/urbee-3d-printed-car/16795/
    A full list of 3D breakthroughs and applications
    http://www.gizmag.com/search/?cx=partner-pub-1607124478120364%3Acf1bgg5f284&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=3d+printing&siteurl=www.gizmag.com%2Fska-dual-site-solution%2F22702%2F&ref=www.gizmag.com%2Fpage%2F2%2F
  • A comment on Conversation: The next manufacturing evolution and how we can use it to get to Mars and beyond.

    May 21 2012: Because I ran out of characters.
    Imagine the whole interiour of the spacecraft is actualy a huge touch screen display, its the instuments, its a back projected image of space (appears clear) its face to face communication and craft control from anywhere within the craft.
    Image a craft completly seamless, no joins or nuts and bolts or any other fasteners.
    Skins with multiple functions
    eg:- outer layer solar collectors, 2nd layer batteries, 3rd layer electronics, 4 layer LCD.
    This is a suggestion for 4 layers, the number of layers and configerations is endless but it can be task specific.

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