Science question

donrkebab · 15 Apr 2014

Hi Guys,
I once heard of a scientific theory that everything man will ever need is already here on earth. The things just need to be discovered and put together in the appropriate fashion.

An example given, was a researcher needed a special type of camera with multiple lenses. He approached camera and lens companies who said that what he wanted was impossible. Eventually he was describing what he wanted to an entymologist, and the entymologist said his discription matched the eye of some sort of insect. With that info he went back to the camera and lens companies and they were able to copy the design of the insects eye.

Does anybody what this science is called? many thanks.

Ricardus · 15 Apr 2014

donrkebab said:
Does anybody what this science is called? many thanks.

Denial?

RogueHanger · 15 Apr 2014

"Deep Thought",

specially built for this purpose. It takes Deep Thought 7½ million years to compute and check the answer, which turns out to be 42. Deep Thought points out that the answer seems meaningless because the beings who instructed it never actually knew what the Question was.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

ellal · 15 Apr 2014

donrkebab said:
Does anybody what this science is called? many thanks.

Gaia

Trazor · 15 Apr 2014

donrkebab said:
Does anybody what this science is called? many thanks.

Thought.

EFLImpudence · 15 Apr 2014

Don't we need the Sun?

Dextraneous · 16 Apr 2014

EFLImpudence said:
Don't we need the Sun?

don't you mean "roe"? That's the son of cod

foxhole · 17 Apr 2014

donrkebab said:
Hi Guys,
I once heard of a scientific theory that everything man will ever need is already here on earth. The things just need to be discovered and put together in the appropriate fashion.

An example given, was a researcher needed a special type of camera with multiple lenses. He approached camera and lens companies who said that what he wanted was impossible. Eventually he was describing what he wanted to an entymologist, and the entymologist said his discription matched the eye of some sort of insect. With that info he went back to the camera and lens companies and they were able to copy the design of the insects eye.

Does anybody what this science is called? many thanks.

Innovation.
Taking a theory and applying it to a totally unrelated problem.
Good minds are creative.
Great minds are innovative.

KenGMac · 18 Apr 2014

The Compound Eye of a fly perhaps?

Check it out

conny · 18 Apr 2014

Artificial Intelligence Replication.

Mikefromlondon · 19 Apr 2014

It is called Necessaity is the Mother of all inventions!

so was born a compound lense,

Mother gives birth to all things, even Einstein was born from an ordinary Mother! fathers are least important, have you not heard of Grandma's remedy!

So next time you are stuck with a problem, your grandmaa is the best highly experienced and talented person to ask.

jeds · 19 Apr 2014

This really is an unarguable - a bit like the notion of god. You can't say something can't or won't ever exist because nobody can really understand things that are yet to be discovered. Like god we can only say there is no evidence for something. So I'm happy to say there is no evidence that a time travel machine will ever exist. However much I might need one.

snico · 19 Apr 2014

Its called biomimetics

mattylad · 20 Apr 2014

No, its called "Woman".

Now that we have women we have everything we need to make anything else.

Or at least that's what my wife tells me.

Micilin · 20 Apr 2014

jeds said:
This really is an unarguable - a bit like the notion of god. You can't say something can't or won't ever exist because nobody can really understand things that are yet to be discovered. Like god we can only say there is no evidence for something. So I'm happy to say there is no evidence that a time travel machine will ever exist. However much I might need one.

If one did, would we have to assume that you can't travel back in time, otherwise we would have had visitors from the future peppering our past?

Science question

RogueHanger

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