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Why Wouldn't You Travel More When There Are So Many Benefits of Traveling?!

Antonio Correia

Well-known member
4. Travel gives Culture and broads your horizons !

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Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
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Just consider the entire interacted design teams and work shops, machines that machine, bend, harden, miles of electric wires and self sealing gas tanks.

We take such things as flight for granted now.

But each depends on inventive genius, scholarship and endeavor by tens of thousands of individuals. The latter nurtured and schooled by loved ones and local schools and major universities.

This wing we fly on is collaboration on a massive scale by society.

Kudos to everyone!

Asher
 
Hello Comunity!

Here are some pictures from my travel to Zaragoza, a city in Spain located in the Autonomous Comunity of Aragan, an amazing place to try new food and watch different outstanding architecture, hope you like it ;)

This building is The Govern Congress Palace of Zaragoza.

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Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Ignacio,

You have excelled! A surprising and delightful instruction to the architecture!

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What a wonderful way of bringing us into stunning new architecture. A unique curator!
 

Antonio Correia

Well-known member
Asher, I think they are real graves. People pray on the tombs of ancestors while pouring they favourite drinks.
Asher, I think it is rather dangerous to travel these days. Why ? Because you fly for 10 or more hours inside a plane, because you can stay in a fantastic hotel on the 10th where the windows are completely closed and the air is the one which comes out the AC, because the car you are in has closed windows with AC on because of the heat, because if you get ill you may not have the necessary help, because ...
My wife and myself we have been over and over in dangerous places and dangerous situations but this time the risk is too big.
I want to cry ! :cautious:
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Michael Nagel

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Surely we can balance the methane by have lab grown meat and convert grazing land to forrest!
Well, lab grown meat is not available - I don't know where to buy any. We would need it in industrial quantities - yesterday - to reduce methane impact and make space for the forests...
For the forests, they are not as effective as thought , there is no simple answer.

For the record: I am adding this to help make infomed decisions.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Michael,

I believe that economics, with giants like Johnson and Johnson invested in this technology, will eventually drive the technology to great efficiency.

I will try to find some lab grown hamburger for you, LOL. Likely it will be about $100 but worth the experience!

Meanwhile, vegetable-based burgers such has sold under the “Impossible” brand are creating the needed starter market for alternates to farmed beef.

I expect it will be no more than 10 years before lab cultured beef is produced on an industrial scale, likely first in Israel, which has the needed investment and science base and a sufficient high income market.

Also, kosher meat it will replace is already about 30% more expensive for Israeli consumers than the ordinary meat purchased in Europe and the USA.

Once the technical issue are solved, I can see new plants popping up close to every major city so that transportation costs are minimized.

In addition to reducing the carbon footprint, meat cultivation will provide thousands of new jobs distributed throughout all western societies very rapidly.

Countries relying on beef exports will have to diversify quickly and the land devoted to cattle will be repurposed as its value plummets! We need to think about the tragic consequences to such countries if we do not think about the problems that we will be creating!

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
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Now to return with respect and awe to the wonderful photography of Antonio Correia, a great observer of people.

….and BTW, his wife is also an accomplished photographer and far more modest than I am boastful, 😂


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Antonio has a great eye for picking out denizens in scenes that seem uncluttered but show the social and economic reality of life.

What he presents is humanity in the matrix of problems and challenges these seemingly happy people have no choice but to face, day in, day out!

Asher
 
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