Chapo_is_Red

joined 3 years ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Me, realizing I'm nearly middle aged

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To my knowledge, most of it from antiquity was lost. Whish is what Ibn Khaldun was speaking about, not the scholarship for the Islamic period.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

“In a way [my undertaking] is an entirely original science. In fact, I have not come across a discussion along these lines anywhere. I do not know if this is because people have been unaware of it...[but] perhaps [people] have written exhaustively on this topic, and their work did not reach us... The knowledge that has not come down to us is, after all, larger than the knowledge that has. Where are the sciences of the Persians...the Chaldaeans, the Syrians, the Babylonians...the Copts and their predecessors? The sciences of only one people, the Greeks, have come down to us...as for the sciences of others, nothing remains.”

Ibn Khaldun, 1332-1406 (as translated by Rosenthal)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I too support democratic socialism

chavez-salute

maduro-salute

evo

allende-rhetoric

Allende just needed more people's militias

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This way NASA can get 95% of the way with research/design then they can sell it cheaply to a chosen private sector firm who can make all the money.

Which firm? I'd pay attention to where memebers of Congress are investing