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resilients:resilient_boating [2013-01-30 13:12] – timboresilients:resilient_boating [2013-02-13 21:57] – alkan
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 But is this sustainable? If everything we build is meant to last for ever, then our world we be filled with things to be maintained, whether by the immutability of the Long Now Clock or the rituals of Stephenson's Millenarians in Anathem. Is there a way (we asked ourselves) to build something useful, for more than an afternoon but less than a decade, something that can work and then dissipate into its components, to be recycled and re-used, composting to new purposes. But is this sustainable? If everything we build is meant to last for ever, then our world we be filled with things to be maintained, whether by the immutability of the Long Now Clock or the rituals of Stephenson's Millenarians in Anathem. Is there a way (we asked ourselves) to build something useful, for more than an afternoon but less than a decade, something that can work and then dissipate into its components, to be recycled and re-used, composting to new purposes.
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 This is the direction that we took with CoC. Find some parts, old broken things that are given away or sold cheap, borrow some  things, recycle some things. Combine them in hopefully useful ways and with any luck, something useful will come out of it. After using the vessels, pass them on in different ways, to be used, misused, recycled or otherwise appropriated for new roles. Trying to build for infinity is hard work and leaves things lying around that will last until infinity. Bloody annoying. And where do you store them? This is the direction that we took with CoC. Find some parts, old broken things that are given away or sold cheap, borrow some  things, recycle some things. Combine them in hopefully useful ways and with any luck, something useful will come out of it. After using the vessels, pass them on in different ways, to be used, misused, recycled or otherwise appropriated for new roles. Trying to build for infinity is hard work and leaves things lying around that will last until infinity. Bloody annoying. And where do you store them?
  
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 The next level is the vessel we will keep for a few seasons or even decades, a racing dinghy or a fishing boat that slowly tears at the rivets and gets damaged in a series of small accidents until it becomes unusable. At the top of the scale we have the fine handworked craftperson's excellence in exquisite wood, a vessel that should be passed on through the generations.  The next level is the vessel we will keep for a few seasons or even decades, a racing dinghy or a fishing boat that slowly tears at the rivets and gets damaged in a series of small accidents until it becomes unusable. At the top of the scale we have the fine handworked craftperson's excellence in exquisite wood, a vessel that should be passed on through the generations. 
  
-The [[subak_construction_notes|Subak] and [[subak2_construction_notes|Subak2]] of [[Control of the Commons]] were more than PNG river rafts, but not built to last for years. They were not envisaged as something that would fill up a supposed gap in our own or someone else's life, to greet us every Discardia by asking us why they were there. The amount of effort that would have been required to make them really work as functional long-term vessels was more than would have been useful. There is always one more thing to do. I think we are glad we didn't.+The [[subak_construction_notes|Subak]] and [[subak2_construction_notes|Subak2]] of [[Control of the Commons]] were more than PNG river rafts, but not built to last for years. They were not envisaged as something that would fill up a supposed gap in our own or someone else's life, to greet us every Discardia by asking us why they were there. The amount of effort that would have been required to make them really work as functional long-term vessels was more than would have been useful. There is always one more thing to do. I think we are glad we didn't.
  
-====References, Notes, and Interesting Tidbits====+==== References, notes, and interesting tidbits ====
  
   * //Francis Joyon// is a professional sail boat racer and yachtsman, and currently holds the record for the fastest single-handed sailing circumnavigation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Joyon   * //Francis Joyon// is a professional sail boat racer and yachtsman, and currently holds the record for the fastest single-handed sailing circumnavigation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Joyon
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