The Notre Dame bells rang for the first time since the April 2019 fire and church on track to re-open on December 8, 2024.
In past 5 years, 250+ companies and 100s of artisans worked to restore the 861-year old cathedral based on medieval building plans:
▫️Arch Roof: Over 2,000 oak trees from French forests used to rebuild roof (using medieval ax cutting techniques).
▫️Transept crossing: Ultrasonic scans were used to see how medieval masonry work was done and arch was rebuilt stone by stone (stonecutters used traditional techniques).
▫️Grand Organ: Frances’s largest organ had its 8,000 pipes removed and cleaned.
There are some necessary modern touches, including a new water-misting system in roof to fight future fires.
The reconstruction efforts funded in large part by ~$1B from France’s 3 richest families (LVMH, Kering and L’Oreal).
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In past 5 years, 250+ companies and 100s of artisans worked to restore the 861-year old cathedral based on medieval building plans:
▫️Arch Roof: Over 2,000 oak trees from French forests used to rebuild roof (using medieval ax cutting techniques).
▫️Transept crossing: Ultrasonic scans were used to see how medieval masonry work was done and arch was rebuilt stone by stone (stonecutters used traditional techniques).
▫️Grand Organ: Frances’s largest organ had its 8,000 pipes removed and cleaned.
There are some necessary modern touches, including a new water-misting system in roof to fight future fires.
The reconstruction efforts funded in large part by ~$1B from France’s 3 richest families (LVMH, Kering and L’Oreal).
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Japan just launched a wooden (yes made of wood) satellite called LignoSat.
It is the world's first wooden satellite and I t'll stay in orbit for six months in an attempt to prove wood is a space-grade material.
It’s one step in Kyoto university’s long and distant dream of building timber houses on the moon and mars .
It is the world's first wooden satellite and I t'll stay in orbit for six months in an attempt to prove wood is a space-grade material.
It’s one step in Kyoto university’s long and distant dream of building timber houses on the moon and mars .
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Pain is the touchstone of growth. Struggle shapes character.
Through adversity, Bobby Kennedy has emerged as a leader who understands suffering, redemption, and the fight for something greater than himself.
Through adversity, Bobby Kennedy has emerged as a leader who understands suffering, redemption, and the fight for something greater than himself.
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Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is
why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such
infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture
of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may
be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.
- C. S. Lewis
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Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is
why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such
infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture
of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may
be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.
- C. S. Lewis
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The logic of worldly success rests on a
fallacy:
the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!
A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in
somebody else's imagination,
as if that were the only
place in which one could at last become real!
- Thomas Merton
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The logic of worldly success rests on a
fallacy:
the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!
A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in
somebody else's imagination,
as if that were the only
place in which one could at last become real!
- Thomas Merton
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and
nature will respond to that commitment by removing
impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and
the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up.
This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and
philosophers who really counted, who really touched
the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This
is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how
magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and
discovering it's a feather bed.
- Terence McKenna, nature loves courage
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and
nature will respond to that commitment by removing
impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and
the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up.
This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and
philosophers who really counted, who really touched
the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This
is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how
magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and
discovering it's a feather bed.
- Terence McKenna, nature loves courage
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