Natural Architect
Longivity is a measure of stability. A system's stability comes from the architecture, how various sub-systems interact and how the balance between various competing interests is maintained. And how long the system can run without getting disrupted.
Study nature and evolution of life on earth, you will understand how a perfectly balanced system it is. One of the most efficient and self sustaining architectures ever created, left alone to itself. Ofcourse, as always it did take time - about 3,000 million years!
Studying specific examples from nature provides pretty good understanding of long sustaining architectures.
Did you know that some female crocs lay upto 100 odd eggs every year? Adult crocs dominate the pool. They are at the top of the food chain and live for relatively long period. What would happen if all the eggs that hatch, make it to adulthood?
The top would become heavy, the entire food chain would crumble due to the weight at the top. Nature predicted this problem and saw that only 3% of the all the eggs make it adulthood. Baby crocs have many predators, including adult crocs, ensuring that only the fittest survive. Harsh to the baby crocs but a simple way of keeping things in balance.
Nature is filled with such examples. Too many elephants would strip the earth of its vegetation. Every day an elephant eats about 150kg of vegetation and drinks up to 83 litres of water. Nature, the supreme architect saw to it that, elephants have a gestation period of 22 months and would have a calf once only, every 4 years.
Lions live in secure families, the probablity of the cubs, usually a litter of 3-4, survivng to adulthood is high. But then lion cubs are invariably killed during a take over by other dominant males every 2 years.
In cases where the longivity is short, like some insects, crustaceans or fish. Sustainance of the species is ensured by numbers. When the rainy season starts on Christmas Island, 120 million land crabs come out of their burrows from the forest.
And 60 million female crabs release their eggs, in to the sea, in just one night.
Nature is a very good architect and a very tough Project Manager. Each species that lives within the system is forced to develop its own way of surviving in the wild. Some like the cheetha specialize others like humans generalize. Humans are the only species known to survive in almost all climates anfd regions. And humans are the only species that are so developed, that they threaten their own existence and other life forms on this earth. As Morpheus puts it: Humans are an anamoly in the system, a mistake the Architect failed to avoid?
Study nature and evolution of life on earth, you will understand how a perfectly balanced system it is. One of the most efficient and self sustaining architectures ever created, left alone to itself. Ofcourse, as always it did take time - about 3,000 million years!
Studying specific examples from nature provides pretty good understanding of long sustaining architectures.
Did you know that some female crocs lay upto 100 odd eggs every year? Adult crocs dominate the pool. They are at the top of the food chain and live for relatively long period. What would happen if all the eggs that hatch, make it to adulthood?
The top would become heavy, the entire food chain would crumble due to the weight at the top. Nature predicted this problem and saw that only 3% of the all the eggs make it adulthood. Baby crocs have many predators, including adult crocs, ensuring that only the fittest survive. Harsh to the baby crocs but a simple way of keeping things in balance.
Nature is filled with such examples. Too many elephants would strip the earth of its vegetation. Every day an elephant eats about 150kg of vegetation and drinks up to 83 litres of water. Nature, the supreme architect saw to it that, elephants have a gestation period of 22 months and would have a calf once only, every 4 years.
Lions live in secure families, the probablity of the cubs, usually a litter of 3-4, survivng to adulthood is high. But then lion cubs are invariably killed during a take over by other dominant males every 2 years.
In cases where the longivity is short, like some insects, crustaceans or fish. Sustainance of the species is ensured by numbers. When the rainy season starts on Christmas Island, 120 million land crabs come out of their burrows from the forest.
And 60 million female crabs release their eggs, in to the sea, in just one night.
Nature is a very good architect and a very tough Project Manager. Each species that lives within the system is forced to develop its own way of surviving in the wild. Some like the cheetha specialize others like humans generalize. Humans are the only species known to survive in almost all climates anfd regions. And humans are the only species that are so developed, that they threaten their own existence and other life forms on this earth. As Morpheus puts it: Humans are an anamoly in the system, a mistake the Architect failed to avoid?
