Neil Degrasse Tyson

[hitchcockgreen]

I had maybe one fully religious friend in high school. He questioned me a few times, as I recall, as to why I wasn't religious but I dodged the question not really wanting to get into it.
By and large most people I knew or associated with were decidedly, if not verbally, agnostic or atheist.... except for a Muslim girl I dated for three years or so.

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Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson's remarks at Senate Commerce hearing on the future of our space program

[hitchcockgreen]

Awesome presentation.
Think he nailed it.
Too many arrogant dinosaurs coasting on past glories and still getting kickbacks without giving a s**t about what could be done.

Too much greed and short sightedness. Too much apathy. People are indeed dull and dreamless.

I remember when I lived in Ottawa... a city filled with the children of beauracrats... none of them had any imagination... no drive... no dreams... utterly stupid.
I'd talk about why going to Mars is so incredibly important and they either had their minds blown or it went right over their heads. (Once even got a response that to me seemed as though I hadn't even been talking....such stupid stupid people inherit government positions...no wonder we are where we are)

Its going to take a serious shake up to get the west back on track. If we don't get one, our once awesome nations will just fall to the side to become footnotes in history.

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The innovative 'wild west' may be over. But I think it may not matter. As you know, I think it is just a matter of another couple decades before it is essentially out of our (as in humans) hands. The unfolding of a sentient artificial intellect will be the ultimate and last 'game changer', at least in regard to us, the old "original" unmodified organics.

Ridley Scott's potential new science fiction masterpiece TED trailer from Prometheus nails it.



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