Is there life out there? Infinite universe. Yup. Do they exist before us? Not likely, as it takes awhile to evolve. Maybe one go round. Have they not existed yet, and we’ll be long dead when (more…)
The Frontier is Everywhere…. Carl Sagan on Wanderers, and we as Voyagers.
Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo. Voyagers from Santiago Menghini on Vimeo.
Why Mars?
Carl Sagan said it best: https://vimeo.com/108650530 tl;dr – we’re finite, the earth is finite, and we’ve evolved to survive at all costs. It may look like an odd step, going to another planet in our (more…)
LOVE
We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come (more…)
Detecting Baloney – the need for development of critical thought & honing our collective faculties….
The Economist is asking why people believe in nonsense. Well I will tell you: Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, and others have known it for years: We need to teach critical thought to young people, (more…)
A meaning for one life; thank Fulghum.
If all that is too hippy, too arcane….. self awareness of people ingesting my words quite a bit after my last breath, the earnest humanistic love trumping self shame from sounding so giddily loving and portently 3rd person, me.. a voyuer watching your reaction while long past into shadow….
Living without Religion – A Center for Inquiry Campaign
*Nice*. Â Center for Inquiry is a humanist skeptic group. Â They aren’t as active as CSICOP (committee for scientific investigation into claims of the paranormal) in debunking frauds, etc…. but more (more…)
Unofficial Nasa ad with Carl Sagan speaking from Pale Blue Dot
Please. Share it with family that remembers the first man on the moon, or watching the innovation of the war fueled space race that led us from vitriol to hope.
“We are obliged to put an emotional distance between us and them” or Tribalism in Sports (in honor of the Giants)
So contemplate this: For millions of years, our male ancestors are scampering about, throwing rocks at pigeons, running after baby antelopes and wrestling them to the ground, forming a single line of shouting, running hunters and trying to terrify a herd of startled warthogs upwind. Imagine that their lives depend on hunting skills and teamwork. Much of their culture is woven on the loom of the hunt. Good hunters are also good warriors. Then, after a long while—a few thousand centuries, say—a natural predisposition for both hunting and teamwork will inhabit many newborn boys. Why? Because incompetent or unenthusiastic hunters leave fewer offspring. I don’t think how to chip a spearpoint out of stone or how to feather an arrow is in our genes. That’s taught or figured out. But a zest for the chase—I bet that is hardwired. Natural selection helped mold our ancestors into superb hunters.
SCIENCE! And some thoughts on popscience like The Secret, or What the Bleep.
I had a conversation with a guy that was talking about the metaphysical side Chaos Theory, IE *total bullshit*. Saying more scientists don’t visit it, as it is unknowable. I mean.. who is this guy? (more…)