tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post1515760894540670185..comments2024-03-22T05:17:53.112-04:00Comments on Big Bad Bald Bastard: After Fifty Years, What Are We Achieving?Big Bad Bald Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-69709198572660487752019-07-21T08:35:47.696-04:002019-07-21T08:35:47.696-04:00Yes indeed going to the moon was a high point in s...Yes indeed going to the moon was a high point in science and civilization. But over 150 years ago during the US Civil War, Henry Adams made the observation that "Someday science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world." So it's seems to me that fact that we may be doomed is baked into our history.Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03870186700642107667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-35530356667340519642019-07-20T21:28:49.755-04:002019-07-20T21:28:49.755-04:00What are we achieving?
We've explored the who...What are we achieving?<br /><br />We've explored the whole solar system using autonomous probes which have sent back a wealth of data, without the utterly pointless expense and danger of sending humans (who wouldn't have been able to do as much as the probes have). Sending men to the Moon was of very little scientific value; the reason we did it was to demonstrate technological superiority over the USSR. That's why there have been no further manned missions to the Moon or Mars, and won't be. There's no valid reason to do it.<br /><br />We've also developed the internet, the most powerful tool ever for helping individuals connect with each other, for disseminating information, and for defeating censorship. We've developed more and more sophisticated medical treatments using genetic science that wasn't even imagined in 1969. We've carried out the Green Revolution which has almost eliminated famine from the world for the first time in history, even as global population doubled.<br /><br />If a lot of the population ignores or disdains science, well, that's been true for as long as science has existed. It progresses, nevertheless. The fact that the Trump regime is full of ignoramuses and bigots is bad, but remember, that affects only one country. Even if the US is stuck stagnating in idiocy for four years, the rest of the world goes on progressing.Infidel753https://www.blogger.com/profile/10965786814334886696noreply@blogger.com