MAVILIO

Success is often counterintuitive.

This is a problem for individuals like us, trying to come out of the cultural rut, as well as for the entire human species - well, for the same reason, I guess.

That is why Nature Loves Courage.

Let me explain. This has to do with progress, evolution and the conquering of new immense dimensions.

We face a problem, like cutting a cream cake in slices, for instance. We adopt old technologies, like a knife. We know that the we can slice the cake by attacking it with the cutting edge of the metal. The kids are happy, they can eat the cake.

Now you visualize the sliced shape of a wing. Can be the one of a bird or the one of an airliner. You will see that its section resembles the one of a kitchen knife, and you know that the wing, actually cutting the air, create lift from below, so much to allow a B747 to be lighter than the air.

I am sure that a super-rational guy (from a timeline where there are no aircraft and no researches in physics at all) that finds a wing from our civilization, and cleverly guesses - like Leonardo - that "the strange object" allows to fly by cutting the air, would try to use and mount it like a knife, with the cutting edge forward.

We know it will not work. We know in our timeline that success is sometimes counterintuitive. Still we are the ones missing the point. Especially if you think about alien technology or ancient Egyptian artifacts.

We always should consider positively failure and stupidity to possibly unlock the access to new dimensions.

Like virgin kids, we always should allow ourselves to try the impossibly stupid try. You'll never know! The wrong "mount" of a wing with the right "amount" of speed could create a completely new industry.

Nature Loves Courage. Must really love our courage.

And "courage" is an exquisitely human characteristic. So missing around, don't you think?