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In article vhGie.3725$796.3332@attbi_s21, Jay Honeck wrote:
What if that had been *him* that got cancer? He would have spent 3000
nights in an unheated hangar, by himself, and for what?

For some people, building isn't "work", it's a major part (maybe
entirely) of the fun of the project. Those 3000 nights of building may
be the thing that kept him going. There are quite a few home builders
who spend 2000 hours building a plane, fly it for maybe a year or two,
then sell it and buy a new kit to build because they enjoy building more
than they do flying.

Life is just too short to use that kind of time.

For you - maybe, but for someone who loves the building aspect, life is
too short for *flying* because it means they spend less time *building*.

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

For you - maybe, but for someone who loves the building aspect, life is
too short for *flying* because it means they spend less time *building*.

That's just...wrong.

;-)

I'm a wood-worker, and enjoy creating and repairing things -- but flying is
so vastly superior to any other human endeavor, it's hard for me to imagine
giving up one moment of it in favor of sanding fiberglass or bucking
rivets...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news8Hie.3740$WG.2930@attbi_s22...
I'm a wood-worker, and enjoy creating and repairing things -- but flying
is
so vastly superior to any other human endeavor, it's hard for me to
imagine
giving up one moment of it in favor of sanding fiberglass or bucking
rivets...

It seems to me that more people build aircraft up north than they do down
south... There's probably a couple of reasons for it... Perhaps having
winters that don't give you that many flying days might be a factor along
with having basements to do a good part of the building process in might
also be another factor...

It seems to me that more people build aircraft up north than they do down
south... There's probably a couple of reasons for it... Perhaps having
winters that don't give you that many flying days might be a factor along
with having basements to do a good part of the building process in might
also be another factor...

Good theories.

There have been quite a number of books written about why the world's
dominant, most productive and innovative civilizations (at least in the last
several hundred years) have all been in colder climates.

I always figured it's because they had to stay busy to keep warm.

("Jeez, Fritz, it's really *cold* out today." "Brrrr....sure is,
Hans...hey, let's go conquer France!")

So, 500 years ago, these guys would've been out pillaging nearby villages.
Today, they're building RV-10s...?

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Wed, 18 May 2005 14:39:58 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote in 2tIie.5050$z_.3694@attbi_s71::

There have been quite a number of books written about why the world's
dominant, most productive and innovative civilizations (at least in the last
several hundred years) have all been in colder climates.

The Renaissance took place in southern Europe: Italy.

Jay Honeck wrote:

So, 500 years ago, these guys would've been out pillaging nearby villages.

500 years ago "those guys" hibernated by the fire and drank constantly during
the rare periods when they were awake. Summer was invasion time.

George Patterson
"Naked" means you ain't got no clothes on; "nekkid" means you ain't got
no clothes on - and are up to somethin'.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:2tIie.5050$z_.3694@attbi_s71...
There have been quite a number of books written about why the world's
dominant, most productive and innovative civilizations (at least in the
last
several hundred years) have all been in colder climates.

I always figured it's because they had to stay busy to keep warm.

I don't believe that is quite correct... It's not just colder climates, but
it is climate change... It seems that people who live in places where the
climate doesn't change throughout the year don't have the environmental
incentive to come up with new solutions to problems... In tropical
civilizations, they have nothing to compare it to, so satisfied with doing
the same thing that they've always done... In frozen civilations, there's a
lot of that too... They've found out what works to keep them from freezing
themselves to death and they just keep doing it year after year... At one
extreme, you have a group of people who have become complacent in their
living conditions since it doesn't take as much effort to survive and at the
other extreme, you have a group of people who spend a significant amount of
their effort just surviving the environment and don't have time for other
things...

Of course, I don't have any hard proof of this -- it's just a gut feeling, I
guess...

I suspect that air-conditioning wasn't invented by someone who lives in a
tropical climate, it was probably invented by someone who lived in a place
that was too warm in the summer and he longed for the cooler days of
winter...

I suspect that air-conditioning wasn't invented by someone who lives in a
tropical climate, it was probably invented by someone who lived in a place
that was too warm in the summer and he longed for the cooler days of
winter...

Excellent, thought-provoking post.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message

There have been quite a number of books written about why the world's
dominant, most productive and innovative civilizations (at least in the
last several hundred years) have all been in colder climates.

It's a pretty well supported theory that the growth of human intelligence
was fed by ice ages.

Personally, I'd rather be dumb but warm than smart but freezing my ass off.


--
Jim Fisher

Jim Fisher wrote:

It's a pretty well supported theory that the growth of human intelligence
was fed by ice ages.

Personally, I'd rather be dumb but warm than smart but freezing my ass off.

Freezing my butt off seems pretty dumb to me.

George Patterson
"Naked" means you ain't got no clothes on; "nekkid" means you ain't got
no clothes on - and are up to somethin'.