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Mariordo

Joined 27 July 2007
This user is from and lives in Costa Rica
This user is Citizen of the World, has set foot in 37 countries,
and has lived in Costa Rica, Brazil, the U.S. and Dominican Republic
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Diquís stone spheres at Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, San José (2020).
My electric cars: 2021 BMW i3 and 2023 BMW iX, Costa Rica (2023).
Mariordo
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"The more I learn the more I know there is to know", adapted from Socrates

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth", Albert Einstein

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", Carl Sagan.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution". Albert Einstein

"Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake" Karl Popper

"Passion (in any argument) is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available", Gregory Benford.

"Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not" Richard Dawkins

"If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories", Karl Popper

"... there is no need to know the truth of the actual matters, but one merely needs to have discovered some device of persuasion which will make one appear to those who do not know to know better than those who know", Socrates in Gorgias

"It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics", Richard Dawkins

There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions..." Karl Popper

"I do not attempt to convert my opponents - I aim at converting their audience", David Goodman (DGG), Wiki Administrator

"I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws", attributed to Albert Einstein.

My Favorite Fathers of Modern Science and Giordano Bruno, the First Martyr of Science

"As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance, and equality of all citizens before the law prevail", Albert Einstein


My favorite natural and historical places

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Natural sites and phenomena

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Grand Canyon, Arizona, United States. A UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the World's Seven Natural Wonders (CNN).
Geirangerfjorden, Norway. A UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Iguaçu Falls, Brazil-Argentina. One of the the World's New7Wonders of Nature
Harbor of Rio de Janeiro (Guanabara Bay), Brazil. One of the the World's Seven Natural Wonders (CNN).
Mount Everest. One of the the World's Seven Natural Wonders (CNN) (visit pending).
Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas, Los Andes mountain range, Argentina
Top: Total solar eclipse of July 11, 1991 from Playas del Coco, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Bottom: Annular solar eclipse of October 14, 2023 from Playa Manzanillo, Limón, Costa Rica.
Aurora boreal, one of the the World's Seven Natural Wonders (CNN). Shown in Norway.


Barringer Meteorite Crater, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. A U.S. National Historic Landmark
Poás Volcano National Park, Costa Rica. Top: Poás Volcano main crater. Bottom: Lake Botos, an inactive crater which last erupted in 7500 BC.


Irazú Volcano, Costa Rica. Top left: Irazú Volcano main crater lake. Top right: Diego de la Haya crater. Bottom: Panoramic view of the main crater.

Archaeological sites

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Teotihuacán archaeological site (100 BCE to 250 CE), Mexico, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Top: Pyramid of the Sun, bottom: Pyramid of the Moon. Abandoned between the 7th and 8th centuries.
Chichen Itza, Mayan archaeological site, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. A UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the New7Wonders of the World
Tikal, Mayan archaeological site, Guatemala (visit pending).
Machu Picchu, Incan archaeological site, Peru. One of the New7Wonders of the World (visit pending).
Giza pyramid complex, Egypt. The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (visit pending).
Precolumbian Chiefdom Settlements with Stone Spheres of the Diquís, Costa Rica. A UNESCO World Heritage site. Left and right: Diquís stone spheres exhibited at the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, San José. Center: in situ Diquís stone spheres at Finca 6 archaeological site, Palmar Sur, Costa Rica.

Historical cities

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Centro storico di Roma (753 BCE), Italy, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and one of the oldest continuously occupied sites In Europe.
Vatican City (Città del Vaticano) (4th century), the smallest state in the world by both area and population.
Centro storico di Firenze (59–27 BCE), Italy. Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance. The Historic Centre was declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site in 1982.
Venezia (5th century), Italy. The lagoon and a part of the city are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Old Dubrovnik (7th century), Croatia. A UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Oia and Fira, Santorini island (12th - 13th century), Greece. Santorini is one of four islands that remain after an enormous volcanic eruption (between 1600 BCE and 1525 BCE) destroyed the earliest settlements on a formerly single island. Santorini has been voted several times as one of the world's most beautiful islands.
Ciudad Colonial de Santo Domingo (1502), Dominican Republic. A UNESCO World Heritage Site. The oldest permanent European settlement of the Americas.
Ouro Preto (1711), Brazil. A UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Favorite cities

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Paris, France. Paris is one of the leading global cities ( Aplha City). The historical district along the Seine in the city center is a UNESCO Heritage Site.
London, England. London is one of the leading global cities ( Aplha City)
Rio de Janeiro (1565), Brazil. From left to right: Museum of Tomorrow at Praça Mauá waterfront; Ipanema and Leblon; Christ the Redeemer atop Corcovado with Pão de Açúcar in the background; and Copacabana
San Francisco (1776/1856), California, United States. As of 2018, San Francisco is the highest rated American city on world liveability rankings.


My favorite wonders of engineering

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Wonders of empirical engineering

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The Pantheon, Rome (125 AD). The Pantheon's five-rings coffered dome is still the world's largest unreinforced solid concrete dome. The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 43.4 meters.
 
 
 
 
 
Gothic cathedrals (12th–15th centuries). The use of the pointed arch, rib vaults and the flying buttress allowed the weight of the roof to be counterbalanced by buttresses outside the building, giving greater height and more space for windows (stained glass, and the rose window) allowing to bring light and color to the interior. From left to right: (1) Choir and apse of Saint-Denis Basilica, considered the first use of all of the elements of gothic architecture (1140-1144); (2) flying buttresses of Notre-Dame de Paris (1163–1345); (3) ambulatory of Notre-Dame de Chartres Cathedral (1194–1220); (4) stained glass windows and rib vaults of Sainte-Chapelle (1242-1248); and (5) rib vaults in the nave of Catedral Primada de América, Santo Domingo (1521-1541), the first and the only standing gothic cathedral in the Americas.
 
 
 
 
 
Brunelleschi's Dome, Florence Cathedral (Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore). The dome was built between 1420 and 1436. Florence Cathedral's dome is still the world's largest brick and mortar (masonry) dome. The octagonal dome is 42.05 m in diameter and the tambour is 45 m wide. The height of the dome is 114.5 m, it stands 52 m above the floor. The dome was built without the use of interior scaffolding supported on the floor.

Modern wonders of engineering

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Panama Canal (1914), one of the American Society of Civil Engineers' Seven Wonders of the Modern World, and also listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World.
 
 
 
 
 
Empire State Building (1931), New York City, a U.S. National Historic Landmark and one of the American Society of Civil Engineers' Seven Wonders of the Modern World. Tops the list of America's Favorite Architecture by the American Institute of Architects. Tallest skyscraper in the world from 1931 to 1970.
 
 
Hoover Dam (1936), Nevada-Arizona, a U.S. National Historic Landmark and one of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. When nine generators were operational in 1939, the dam's power plant became the world's largest hydroelectricity facility.
 
 
 
Golden Gate Bridge (1937), San Francisco, one of the American Society of Civil Engineers' Seven Wonders of the Modern World. The longest suspension bridge main span in the world from 1937 to 1964.
 
 
 
 
 
 
The modern electric car (1990s to 2010s). From left to right: General Motors EV1 (1996); Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid (2010); Tesla Model S all-electric car (2012); BMW i3 BEV/REx (2013); Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell car (2014); and BMW iX all-electric SUV (2021). There were around 40 million plug-in electric cars on the world's roads by December 2023.

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