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By Charlene Sakoda
February 4, 2014 2:35 PMOdd News
Dr. Jeff Wilson, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Huston-Tillotson (HT) University in Austin, Texas will live in a dumpster for the next year all in an effort to teach students about sustainable living. As reported by KXAN Austin News, the environmental scientist sold all his possessions and will move into his tiny home tonight. Itfs a project that the Ford Foundation is backing with $75,000 given towards the effort. Ultimately, Wilson says their goal is to answer the question, gCan you have a pretty good life living in one percent the size of the average new American home on one percent the water and one percent the energy, with one percent the waste?h
The idea came to gProfessor Dumpster,h as hefs affectionately been nicknamed, while he was sitting in a Starbucks brainstorming ways to make his research more interactive for students. He saw a dumpster outside the coffee shop and the seed was
planted.
The project plans include three phases for the dumpster which will rely on student involvement from the elementary school level through college. gThey will propose different solutions. Go do some research on that. Wefll also run it by experts here and outside of HT. Then wefll test out solutions,h said the professor.
First it will start out as a camping site where the professor will be using a negative 15 degree rated sleeping bag to get through the colder months. Wilson told the station that the dumpster will be a tight fit, gThe Dumpster is 6 feet by 6 feet. Ifm 6 1h, so thatfs a little math problem. The hypotenuse. Ifll be sleeping diagonal.h Elbow room isnft the only issue hefll have to face as average Austin temperatures range near 100 degrees in the summer and winter lows have recently dipped into the 20fs.
Plans are to then transform the dumpster into a tiny home with appliances like a washing machine. gWefll have a washing machine out here that will use 40 gallons on the average wash,h said Dr. Wilson. gNow Ifll be getting my water from Town Lake. So thatfs eight five-gallon buckets Ifll have to haul up the hill.h
The last phase for the small living quarters is described as a gspace capsule.h Itfs unclear exactly what that means but Professor Dumpster said, gIt will be the ultimate small space ever designed.h
His showers will be taken at the university gym and drinking water will be filtered water from Lady Bird Lake. However, by the end of the project, Dr. Wilson aims to have a completely self-sustaining dumpster home.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv9I4Ibo7NE (tombrownjrsurvival)
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-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_MarsMars One is a not-for-profit organization based in the Netherlands that has put forward plans to land the first humans onto Mars and establish a permanent human colony there by 2025. The private spaceflight project is led by Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp, who announced plans for the Mars One project in May 2012. The Mars One organization is the controlling stockholder of the for-profit Interplanetary Media Group. Mars One’s original concept included launching a robotic lander and orbiter as early as 2016 to be followed by a human crew of four in 2022. Organizers plan for that crew, selected from thousands of applicants who paid an administrative fee, to become the first residents of Mars with every step of the crews journey will be documented for a reality television program which would partially fund the project. In February 2015, the primary contractors on the robotic missions confirmed that work had ended on those missions with the completion of contracts on initial studies.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_OneA cyborg (short for “cybernetic organism”) is a theoretical or fictional being with both organic and biomechatronic parts. The term was coined in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline. D. S. Halacy’s Cyborg: Evolution of the Superman in 1965 featured an introduction which spoke of a “new frontier” that was “not merely space, but more profoundly the relationship between ‘inner space’ to ‘outer space’ a bridge…between mind and matter.”
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg#Cyborg_tissues_in_engineeringSorry for my broken English.
With ancient practices somebody might ask how much ancient theory one also needs.
Or if theoretically mathematics, physics, chemistry with all their sub-branches are not only more important, but only important.
Also for example qigong which is aimed in the end for exceptional martial prowess, in ancient sense, would seem to be quite outdated.
But really the first problem is this totally self-destructive and self-indulgent way of living which are so clearly manifested in every thing and everywhere.
HOWDY
Ps. Sorry for my broken English.
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