Thank you Charles for your follow up on your initial reactions and feelings about the latest all female Blue Origins 11-minute flight to space, and thank you for your detailed explanation. I for myself thought, well, that’s a stunt, like a step above (literally and figuratively) a Magic Mountain ride. However, on further reflection I applaud the effort, success and I am relieved that it all went well and that everyone came back safely. I suppose that in some respects, this is like the first passengers who took to (what became) commercial flights. All of these pursuits have their hazards. From the Write brothers to the commercial flights there was a learning curve, and similarly now we’re beginning our (humanity’s) baby steps towards commercial (I suppose) space flights. They tell us that life on Earth is possible for another 1 billion years, until the Sun goes through a major change which would make Earth unlivable. Well, maybe the latest demonstration is a step in humanity’s attempt to one day become truly space faring. At the same token, the decline in science budgets is troubling and is contrary to our becoming space faring. The loss of memory, on a previous article of your, on how we forgot how to make cement, like the Romans did, in my view, has some parallels. If we let ourselves get dumb in science, then we’ll go the way of the Romans. Are we getting dumb because of hubris, pride, because some wish to horde everything to themselves, or a combination of those and other factors, not sure. However, we could suffer the memory loss and dip into another dark age.
Thank you Ezra, and coming from you, the messenger means a lot. Are we getting dumb is a question I'm going to continue to explore because the loss of memory, and the loss of meaning is a price we can't afford to pay.
The cosplaying juggernauts embarrassed me.
Thank you Charles for your follow up on your initial reactions and feelings about the latest all female Blue Origins 11-minute flight to space, and thank you for your detailed explanation. I for myself thought, well, that’s a stunt, like a step above (literally and figuratively) a Magic Mountain ride. However, on further reflection I applaud the effort, success and I am relieved that it all went well and that everyone came back safely. I suppose that in some respects, this is like the first passengers who took to (what became) commercial flights. All of these pursuits have their hazards. From the Write brothers to the commercial flights there was a learning curve, and similarly now we’re beginning our (humanity’s) baby steps towards commercial (I suppose) space flights. They tell us that life on Earth is possible for another 1 billion years, until the Sun goes through a major change which would make Earth unlivable. Well, maybe the latest demonstration is a step in humanity’s attempt to one day become truly space faring. At the same token, the decline in science budgets is troubling and is contrary to our becoming space faring. The loss of memory, on a previous article of your, on how we forgot how to make cement, like the Romans did, in my view, has some parallels. If we let ourselves get dumb in science, then we’ll go the way of the Romans. Are we getting dumb because of hubris, pride, because some wish to horde everything to themselves, or a combination of those and other factors, not sure. However, we could suffer the memory loss and dip into another dark age.
Thank you Ezra, and coming from you, the messenger means a lot. Are we getting dumb is a question I'm going to continue to explore because the loss of memory, and the loss of meaning is a price we can't afford to pay.