> Something I occasionally contemplate -- never for longer than eight or nine seconds at a time -- is the fact that nearly every single man-made object I see, every day, everywhere, has a schematic drawing of it filed away somewhere.


That is very interesting. One thing I think about sometimes is the amount of man-made things I see. I think almost all the time my view is 90-100% man-made. And 99-100% it's the way it is *because* of man (planted trees, etc.).

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