Mnementh on 21 June 2017
| Teeqoz said: I am currently at the Starmus festival in Trondheim  I saw his lecture/conference (which he held digitally from Cambridge because he couldn't come for some reason), but I am not nearly as pessimistic as Stephen Hawking. Neil DeGrasse Tyson said two very important things in his talks here today: when we have the capability to terraform Mars, we also have the capability to fix earth from whatever we are doing, have done and will do to fuck it up. This principle also applies to just colonizing mars and living there at all really. If we can do that, we can also save earth. He also said that if we can't even be peaceful and sustainable on this planet, what makes us think we could do it in space? We have to be wiser and have a completely different mindset, which must also include our actions here on earth for the human species to survive into the future. However I still think that going to mars is a great idea in both spurring technological advances, inspiring new, young people to go into STEM, furthering internationally co-operative missions and furthering our species' agenda as a spacefaring and space-exploring species. |
I agree with Tyson and you, and I'm surprised VGC has people who know who Tyson is. With Hawkings I understand this, he is a posterchild for science.
