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"For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that <i>Apollo 11</i> took to the… - Carl Sagan
"For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock."
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About Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (9 November 1934 – 20 December 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space, the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the hypothesis, accepted since, that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to, and calculated using, the greenhouse effect. He testified to the US Congress in 1985 that the greenhouse effect will change the earth's climate system.
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Nós criamos uma civilização global em que os elementos mais cruciais — o transporte, as comunicações e todas as outras indústrias, a agricultura, a medicina, a educação, o entretenimento, a proteção ao meio ambiente e até a importante instituição democrática do voto — dependem profundamente da ciência e da tecnologia. Também criamos uma ordem em que quase ninguém compreende a ciência e a tecnologia. É uma receita para o desastre. Podemos escapar ilesos por algum tempo, porém mais cedo ou mais tarde essa mistura inflamável de ignorância e poder vai explodir na nossa cara.
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