RE <<I've never seen wine made like that, although it may be very familiar to people who make their own wine from various fruits etc. Is that an old Chinese practice, or something new?>>
I knew China grape wine history is old, but I do not know how grape wine was made in China.
en.wikipedia.org
coincidentally, same w/ golf en.wikipedia.org , football en.wikipedia.org , chess en.wikipedia.org , medicine en.wikipedia.org ... all old in China
thus making the currently on-going deliberate planetary bifurcation of human technology very interesting.
if I understand the interesting setup proposed by Pompeo / Navarro / Esper and their kindred spirits, teams in China would have very good ideas about what teams elsewhere are doing and how, by reading in the original languages of the elsewheres' and by diaspora students and residents working amongst the peers of elsewheres', and
teams elsewhere would have few clues about what teams in China are doing given the language gap, and few boots on the ground working amongst China peers
If so, the kindred spirits shall soon-enough propose deliberate racial profiling to level the playing field, by exclusionary policies to be applied for universities, and all sectors involving technologies, as if knowledge can be ring-fenced
should be interesting to watch over time
so far the glaring example that could have been predicted is the quantum satellite, launched in 2016 and still waiting for peers to show up, an unusual time gap for interesting happenings
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-reaches-new-milestone-in-space-based-quantum-communications/ China Reaches New Milestone in Space-Based Quantum CommunicationsThe nation’s Micius satellite successfully established an ultrasecure link between two ground stations separated by more than 1,000 kilometers
as in the case of crypto money, whenever I browse at any scholarly tome re quantum satellite, I cannot even picture the device much less pretend to understand spooky actions scientificamerican.com
China Shatters “Spooky Action at a Distance” Record, Preps for Quantum InternetResults from the Micius satellite test quantum entanglement, pointing the way toward hackproof global communications
... and I studied quantum physics / optical electronics before I admitted to self that I was not good enough and best migrate to computer structures and then slide over to business school, to learn a use-less branch of knowledge called option pricing.
the useful bits of option pricing can be learned in one session of dialogue over beer.
Thankfully my Jack is like me, we like the easy stuff that gets the result, fast, fuss-free, and repeatable.
Thankfully the Coconut is not like me, and really delves into whatever she does
the Jack makes fun of his sister, and the coconut sister takes it in good humour,
"Erita, why are you not crying? you did not get a perfect score this time"
"Jack, because I got the highest score"
the question begs asking, what else is out there with progression-gaps wide-enough to make a difference? in basic and applied sciences, engineering, medicine, ... education ... etc etc, even as not all gaps are net positive to the folks ahead in any game. am sure we shall find out as we progress along
back to wine, I remember when I was perhaps 6-7, I sliced up sausages and imbibed the rose petal wine I found in the kitchen. My parents found me in stupor when they returned from wherever doing whatever. They did not say much and I next had alcohol (beer) when 16. |
