¶ Human Beings and Hard Machinery
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Human Beings and Hard Machinery:
“You are so much liquid. You have to know this to understand human beings. The only difference between ourselves and hard, cold machinery is that we also have these metabolic processes processing energy to be regenerated and these have a by-product heat of 98.6°. It’s as if you put a natural heater into the tree so that its liquid wouldn’t freeze, so it wouldn’t crystallize and break off. So that when you and I run into each other we don’t get too badly hurt… Hydraulics, and pneumatics, and the heating so you’re not going to freeze up. That’s what we have here. That’s what makes us seem different from the hard machinery, where we’re only doing it in pure compression. So nature has simply gone considerably further and doing a much better design by using this load distributing capability.”
¶ Citations
- Univ. of Alaska Address, p.28, 20 Apr '72
