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@bstorer said:@tgape said:Are you saying that the planet itself has shown us high technology with its packaging of various (usually dead) creatures in ice and then moving them around, usually with glacial slowness? Because if that's true, then I'm apparently confused at the concept of high tech. On a semi-serious note, I actually would regard that as high tech. While it may be simple for nature to do, we lack the ability or technology to accomplish it.
It depends on where you live. If you live in Alaska, Canada, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Scandinavia, or Siberia, most of the year, it's quite easy to leverage nature's gifts to accomplish this. Admittedly, as mentioned, nature's methods perform the transport portion rather slowly, and one generally doesn't have much control over where or when the product arrives at its destination. However, it's not too difficult to pick up the product after it has been packaged, put it on a truck, and ship it - hopefully before the ice fully melts, otherwise the whole 'encasing in ice' part of the process was rather useless.
Of course, thanks to the work of Ben Franklin, Michael Faraday, Willis Carrier and, more recently, whoever came up with 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane, we actually *do* have the technology to pull this off anywhere on the planet. Not, admittedly, in a manner as energy-efficient as one might like.
But, considering that Ben Franklin was able to, at least in theory, pull this off, I wouldn't exactly say it is "high" technology even for Nairobi (random place where it's really hot most of the time).