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We lack consensus about our place in the Universe. There is no generally agreed upon long-term vision of the goal of our species — other than, perhap… - Carl Sagan
" "We lack consensus about our place in the Universe. There is no generally agreed upon long-term vision of the goal of our species — other than, perhaps, simple survival. Especially when times are hard, we become desperate for encouragement, unreceptive to the litany of great demotions and dashed hopes, and much more willing to hear that we’re special, never mind if the evidence is paper-thin.
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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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En el polo opuesto de la discusión, la frase -derecho a la vida- constituye un ejemplo claro de expresión altisonante concebida para impresionar más que para aclarar las cosas. Ni hoy ni nunca ha existido en ningún país de la tierra el derecho a la vida. Criamos animales domésticos para luego darles muerte, destruimos los bosques, contaminamos ríos y lagos hasta causar la muerte de toda la fauna piscícola, cazamos venados por deporte, leopardos por la piel y ballenas para preparar comida para los perros, atrapamos a los delfines, boqueantes y semiasfixiados, con grandes redes del tipo utilizado para la pesca del atún, y senteciamos a muerte a los perros cachorros para -equilibrar la población-. Todos estos animales y vegetales están tan vivos como nosotros. Lo que muchas sociedades humanas protegen no es la vida, sino la vida el hombre, y aún así desencadenamos guerras con medios -modernos- que causan estragos a la población civil y que suponen un tributo tan escandaloso que muchos de nosotros ni siquiera nos atrevemos a entrar en su consideración.
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Consider this claim: as I walk along, time – as measured by my wristwatch or my ageing process – slows down. Also, I shrink in the direction of motion. Also, I get more massive. Who has ever witnessed such a thing? It's easy to dismiss it out of hand. Here's another: matter and antimatter are all the time, throughout the universe, being created from nothing. Here's a third: once in a very great while, your car will spontaneously ooze through the brick wall of your garage and be found the next morning on the street. They're all absurd! But the first is a statement of special relativity, and the other two are consequences of quantum mechanics (vacuum fluctuations and barrier tunnelling, they're called). Like it or not, that's the way the world is. If you insist it's ridiculous, you'll be forever closed to some of the major findings on the rules that govern the Universe.
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