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Novacén: Nadcházející věk hyperinteligence | Databáze knih
https://www.databazeknih.cz/knihy/novacen-nadchazejici-vek-hyperinteligence-487713

In the 1960s, James Lovelock, the inventor of the Electron Capture Detector, was asked by NASA to develop instrumentation to detect life on Mars. In considering how life would manifest itself, he realised that the Earth's atmosphere was orders of magnitude away from chemical equilibrium and that such disequilibrium could not be due purely to abiological processes, but was maintained in a dynamically stable state by Life. At that time, spectrometric analysis of the atmosphere of Mars indicated that it was close to chemical equilibrium and Lovelock concluded that Mars was unlikely to harbour life. Since the Earth had had life for at least 3.2 thousand million years, Lovelock came to the conclusion that life was responsible for planetary homeostasis in the sense of maintaining optimum surface conditions, hence his Gaia Hypothesis.

James Lovelock: an appreciation | Symbiosis
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13199-022-00873-w

Mapa oceanskych proudu (behem zimy na severni polokouli)

By the early 18th century, a complex colonial trade network was established over the North Atlantic Ocean. This network was partially the result of local economic conditions and dominant wind and sea current patterns. It was discovered in the 15th century, notably after the voyages of Columbus, that there is a circular wind and sea current pattern over the North Atlantic. The eastward wind pattern, which blows on the southern part, came to be known as the “trade winds” since they enabled the crossing of the Atlantic. The westward wind pattern, blowing on the northern part, came to be known as the “westerlies”. The system is known as the North Atlantic Gyre, which the Gulf Stream is a part of and acts as a gigantic conveyor belt.

Colonial Trade Pattern, North Atlantic, 18th Century | The Geography of Transport Systems
https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter1/emergence-of-mechanized-transportation-systems/colonial-trade-pattern-atlantic-18th-century/

Lifelines of Our Society
A Global History of Infrastructure
A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives.

Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today's strongest global force over government and individual lives. Who should build and maintain infrastructures? How are they to be protected? And why are they all in such bad shape? In Lifelines of Our Society, Dirk van Laak offers broad audiences a history of global infrastructures—focused on Western societies, over the past two hundred years—that considers all their many paradoxes. He illustrates three aspects of infrastructure: their development, their influence on nation building and colonialism, and finally, how individuals internalize infrastructure and increasingly become not only its user but regulator.

Beginning with public works, infrastructure in the nineteenth century carried the hope that it would facilitate world peace. Van Laak shows how, instead, it transformed to promote consumerism's individual freedoms and our notions of work, leisure, and fulfillment. Lifelines of Our Society reveals how today's infrastructure is both a source and a reflection of concentrated power and economic growth, which takes the form of cities under permanent construction. Symbols of power, van Laak describes, come with vulnerability, and this book illustrates the dual nature of infrastructure's potential to hold nostalgia and inspire fear, to ease movement and govern ideas, and to bring independence to the nuclear family and control governments of the Global South.

Lifelines of Our Society
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262375962/lifelines-of-our-society/

TADEAS: + Comparative Climatology III
Lunar and Planetary Institute

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