Character: Lauda

... started dead evolution. Evolution of mechanical devices. What is the basic principle of homeostasis? To survive in the changed conditions, even in the most hostile, in the most severe. For further shapes the evolution of self-organizing mechanical systems the main danger came not from local animals or plants. They had to identify sources of energy and materials, which could produce spare parts and entire organisms. <...> Millions of years of mechanical evolution is a phenomenon with which the still man in the Galaxy is not met. I beg you to pay attention to the basic problem. All the known machines are not themselves, but someone. Thus, from a human point of view is completely pointless is the existence of a metal "scaffolding" or seek his iron "clouds". However, as "senseless", for example, cacti in the earth's desert.