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“Studying whether there’s life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there’s something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge.
This was the slideshow of the presentation Dennis Meredith gave at the AAAS 2010, just before me on Sunday morning - this was pre-recorded. The live presentation was even more fun:
tags: 1945-1998, nuclear weapons testing,
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Dear all,
Save Nature? - "Save the planet? We haven't even learned how to look after each other and we're going to sane the planet?....Besides there's nothing wrong with the planet, the planet is fine, the PEOPLE are fucked. The planet isn't going anywhere, we are! Pack your shit folks we're going away and we won't leave much of a trace, maybe a little styrofoam.
The planet will be here and we will be long gone, just another failed mutation, an evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas...
Do the arithmetic...We've been engaged in heavy industry for a little over 200yrs, the planet has been here for 4 1/2 billion years and we have the conciet to think we are a threat, that somehow we are putting in jepordy this beautiful blue-green ball that's just'a floating around the sun...The planet isn't going anywhere, WE are!"
- George Carlin.