{"id":1682,"date":"2009-07-15T19:19:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T17:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2009-07-19T21:23:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T19:23:27","slug":"you-are-a-screw-a-spirally-inclined-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/you-are-a-screw-a-spirally-inclined-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"You are a screw; A spirally inclined plane."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Manual tells us that in the beginning the Builder decreed six fundamental Machines. These are his six aspects, and all we do we must do with the Six. We need no other machines. I believe this with all my heart. I do. And yet sometimes I seem to intuit the existence of a seventh Machine, hovering like a blasphemous ghost just beyond apprehension. There is something wrong with me, and I don\u2019t know what it is.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2192 William Shunn: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asimovs.com\/_issue_0702\/Inclination.shtml\">Inclination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Although we refer to the six simple machines there is really only three &#8211; the lever, the wheel &#038; axle, and the inclined plane. The wedge, the pulley, and the screw are modifications of the first three.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2192 Balmoral Science Department: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvsd44.bc.ca\/sites\/ReportsViewOnePopM.asp?RID=3812\">Simple Machines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>A simple machine is a mechanical device that changes the direction or magnitude of a force. In general, they can be defined as the simplest mechanisms that use mechanical advantage (also called leverage) to multiply force. A simple machine uses a single applied force to do work against a single load force<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2192 Wikipedia: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simple_machine\">Simple machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/18arsfesten_sthlm.jpg\" alt=\"18arsfesten_sthlm\" title=\"18arsfesten_sthlm\" width=\"640\" height=\"304\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1708\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manual tells us that in the beginning the Builder decreed six fundamental Machines. These are his six aspects, and all we do we must do with the Six. We need no other machines. I believe this with all my heart. I do. And yet sometimes I seem to intuit the existence of a seventh &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/you-are-a-screw-a-spirally-inclined-plane\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You are a screw; A spirally inclined plane.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,279],"tags":[824,822,821,608,818,820,823,685,819,834],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found","category-photography","tag-asimov","tag-building","tag-knowledge","tag-links","tag-machine","tag-mechanics","tag-novel","tag-sci-fi","tag-understanding","tag-william-shun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}