Termite architecture : a wonder of technology

Social insects like ants, bees or termites are known for their perfectionist organization.

Watch the picture above. We can notice that the termite mound is made of soil, digged locally and raised as a tower with a chimney in the center and lateral openings, where the air comes in, gets a new temperature and ventilates the whole building.

+ The building is cheaper, because digging the soil and raising it as walls asks less work than importing materials ;
+ The building is cool in summer, mild in winter, because the underground temperature is always at the annual mean of the surface. This is particularly interesting for hot countries.
+ Ventilation naturally occurs everytime in the building, making it very comfortable.
+ Solar power (solar chimney) and wind power (badgir) provide the required energy for free.

If we take a good place like Thira in Santorini, it means that we can make cheaper buildings, that are at 18 °C all the year and ventilated, saving 69 % energy from the very beginning, thanks to termite architecture.

As you can see in this diagram, 69 % of energy, used for air heating and cooling, can be saved thanks to termite architecture.

This is why we can say that termite architecture is a wonder of technology, and should become a new standard in the field of architecture.

Why Greece ?

Why have I moved to Greece ? Why didn't I stay in France, where money rains so much ?

Money doesn't make happiness. I thought that French were the worst bastards of Europe (except English of course), so I first tried to move to Germany.

It's obvious that French are demons, but Germans hide their game. They give money and sex to people, under one condition : that they sacrifice their freedom. In my opinion, Angela MERKEL is the worst dictator of Europe, because people don't know she is evil.

So I moved to Greece. I've chosen to side with this people with greater history, and to sacrifice money in order to become autonomous, and to find love.

I wish you the best for the future.

Ελευθερία ή θάνατος

Communication

It's a fact : people talk less and less with each other.

Before 2000, it was not normal to spend all your life with nobody to talk with. You could always address to an unknown person, get an answer, start a relationship. You always had people to talk with.

Humans are social animals. We need to live together, because we have a constant sexual appetite.

Unfortunately, more and more people are alone, and this is very sad... :'-(

Technology destroys the natural capacities of humans.

Telecommunication destroys communication. The increase of telecommunication results in a increase of cold behaviors. But we all prefer to be hot !

Why don't we stop that ? If everybody left television and telephone, this world would be a better place.
Why don't we open a book, and discover new things ?
Why don't we go to a restaurant, eat together, with the touch of a real person ?

I want to make Oneiric Hive, a renewable energies company based on equality of wages and power. In Honeybee Democracy, Thomas D. Seeley shows that honeybees take decisions together, based on collective intelligence. I think there is a life model with social insects.

Honestly, I feel I wanna be like this

and I guess I'm not the only one...

If you feel a lack of love in your life, please share your experience. Star of the sailor is open, you can leave a comment.

Capitalism is shifting to technologism

In 2008, the media announced the economical crisis, and the sign of the end of capitalism.
In 2010, smartphones became popular. People no longer had the patience to go home to have the Internet, and became addicted, sometimes a tragic way, to a useless, inhumane, cold technology.

This is it : capitalism is not dead, it has evolved into technologism. But this time, there is good news : technologism lets good people live in peace.

What is technologism ?

From what we can see now, let us give some characteristics of this system :

• Knowledge, instead of money, is the new source of power ;
• The Big Data, instead of the Capital, is the new dominating mind ;
• Speed, instead of money, is the new trap for selfish people ;
• Good sense, instead of love, is the new virtue of selfless people ;
• Technologism has two faces : eco-technologism, or country-technologism, based on technological autonomy, and ego-technologism, or urban-technologism, based on technological slavery.

On one side, the people of the land, living in autonomy. On the other side, the people of the city, living in slavery.

Within capitalism, if someone paid you, you could not socially refuse. But within technologism, you always have A RIGHT OF DENIAL.

What does it mean ?

Let's take a simple example. Imagine you are surfing in the European web. You may run into something like this :

This Internet page is a sorter. The shepherd (the master), sorts, on one side, the sheep (the slaves who say YES), and on the other side, the wolves (the free humans who say NO). This is the right of denial.

Looking for efficiency, the shepherd will ignore the wolves, too wild, and focus on the easy preys, in other words, the sheep.

In my opinion, offline life is a treasure, because this is the only place where you can have a private life. Sometimes we'd better give up the screens and open a book, go to a pub and talk to a real person. This is today's wisdom.

The pub may be watched, but the human heat you will find there opens freer, warmer paths, with the ability to touch somebody, to eat something together, and get an intense pleasure of real social relationship.

Capitalism is shifting to technologism. Hopefully, there is good news with it :

WE HAVE A RIGHT OF LOVE AND FREEDOM.

If you wanna say anything, please express yourself and leave a comment.

Internet storm !

John — Hey Bob, it looks like a full storm.
Bob — Are you sure, John ?
John — Yes I am. Things that used to work normally, don't work anymore. Do you know what it means, Bob ?
Bob — Yes, I do. We've gotta find a good protection against Internet storms.

Hi everyone. As you maybe noticed, things do not happen normally in the Internet since the end of 2018. Things that used to be easy and natural, don't work anymore.

Besides, it looks like that poor countries are finally rising. Slowly, deeply, the creation comes today from poor countries.

Let me explain you something. Many people think that quality of life is related to money.
This is false. Money is quantity, not quality. And we cannot have both quality and quantity.

Take a look to the following diagram. This is the European map for the quantity of water received per person.

The essence of water is love. And love is the absolute power of creation. In other words, as we are coming back to the natural economy, Greece is getting more quality of life than Germany ! :-)

In other words : dry and urban deserts are shit. Countries like Colombia or Nigeria are deeply becoming better, contrary to rich, urbanized countries, which are in crisis.

People of the city, who fear Nature, will be punished with the hell of technological slavery. People of the countryside, who love Nature, will be rewarded with the paradise of technological autonomy. That's all.

I will ask an informatician to repair my computer. In the future, I plan to make an article about how to surf on the Internet, a kind of "Internet license" documentation. And maybe we will have our standards against the Internet storms ! :-)

Presentation

Hi everyone,

in 2009 after a series of deep-thinking e-mails, I launched my blog L'étoile du marin. Star of the sailor, the blog where you are, is the international sequel of what I made there.

Philosophy, arts, sciences... you will never get annoyed thanks to the richness of the subjects. From aesthetics to opinion, passing through the most reliable information, I'm sure you will find something here to develop your mind.

The title is a metaphor : ideals are like stars for the sailors : we cannot reach them, but they show the way to follow.

Feel free to comment, and express yourself. I believe in democracy, debate, and collective intelligence. Criticism is OK, as long as you are doing something constructive.

Together, with the power of Love and Chaos, let's destroy the old world, and create a new world, based on ευνομία : the cosmic harmony.