https://clip.place/videos/watch/128e1a34-da7a-465f-bb64-1941920501d2 I'm a scientist. I think sciencey things about the world. And at no time am I asking, how would one accomplish this? How would one build it? How would one pay for it? How much ingenuity does it require? Do I have to invent something that has never before existed just to solve the problem I have posed? I don't really have to think about that. And we have this community of engineers that walk among us who live for that. They live for it. You know what else they live for? Constraints on what it is they need to do. That was the most impressive feature of how engineers function. The last thing an engineer wants to hear is, here, go build this. There's no time frame, there's no money limit, and there's no constraints. They're gonna be staring at their navel to not knowing what to do. But if I say I got three months, I got two million dollars, these are the specs, and this is the requirements, go. Their ingenuity derives from figuring stuff out within those constraints. That's how we make discoveries, not scientific discoveries, discoveries about how stuff works around us, that so many of us, myself included, take for granted. So there is no future of civilization without happy engineers, engineers that are given problems to solve, and maybe it's up to the rest of us to give in the kinds of problems we need solved. Energy, housing, climate, scientists can't solve those problems. We can characterize them, but we need engineers to step in the ring. And this is an appeal, I suppose, to a few. Not everyone can be an engineer. We don't want that. Engineers don't even want that. But engineers, as a demographic of society that will lead us into the future, there is no civilization without them. And for me, that is a cosmic perspective. Cut from the full video: youtu.be/kuK8Z7sxX_8 Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:45:05 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://clip.place https://clip.place/lazy-static/avatars/e63ed084-e5be-423e-a66e-dae98f14f4b6.png https://clip.place/videos/watch/128e1a34-da7a-465f-bb64-1941920501d2 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://clip.place/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.