You have no idea how long the human race shall survive. That is stupid hubris to presume.Considering that semi-modern humans have only been around for a hundred thousand years or so, I'd say it's hubris to suggest we'll be around for a billion. There is no known species that has been around for a billion years; the closest thing to it is the horseshoe crab which is actually a family, not a species. They've been around since the Ordovician which was less than half a billion years ago. Longer lived microbial "species" actually upon investigation turn out to be phyla like the cyanobacteria. If descendants of humans turn out to still be around in a billion years it's a pretty good guess they won't be our conspecifics. At best they're likely to be members of the same class as we are: Mammalia. And it's not necessarily a good guess.
You have no idea how long the human race shall survive. That is stupid hubris to presumeSure we do. Humans are a transition species, intent upon replacing themselves with something more suitable. We have externalized evolution. We are both creating more suitable machine versions of ourselves while at the same time replacing bits and pieces of ourselves with more functional alternatives.
HL. in my opinion, scientists/engineers/technicians, as a fuzzy demographic. Are born, raised and educated in the same socially enforced indoctrination as the rest of us.
The troubling viewpoint is that scientists as a caste are pretty much as powerless as the rest of us. Patriotism as enforced obedience to the dictates of the ruling castes of attorneys and capitalists, results in no one with the power to make the difficult decisions. As the plutocracy is simply too incompetent to understand the necessity.
They lack the intellectual vision to direct resources towards the long-term survival of the Human Race.
HL. in my opinion, scientists/engineers/technicians [...] educated in the same socially enforced indoctrination as the rest of us.
You have no idea how long the human race shall survive. That is stupid hubris to presume.
Sagan was so distracted by the Cold War he jumped on the bandwagon of nuclear disarmament that includes dismantling of such weapons.
They lack the intellectual vision to direct resources towards the long-term survival of the Human Race.
Considering that semi-modern humans have only been around for a hundred thousand years or so, I'd say it's hubris to suggest we'll be around for a billion.
Mark Thomas
Jul 14, 2017We can see more than enough of the big picture now and the stakes for humanity could not be much higher. We need to get serious about sending people to Mars to get some answers.