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2021-10-13 14:37:41

Jason Cook

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#^Blue Origin launches William Shatner and crew of 3 to the final frontier and back

The 90-year-old "Star Trek" actor is now the oldest person to fly in space.

Space

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2021-10-13 17:45:03

Jason Cook

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I'm glad he got to go in his lifetime. Others are sure to follow. Thanks Bezos.

2021-10-13 17:59:56

FourOh-LLC

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Way back in the early 2000 or so MIT published an Astrology 101 course online, the very first of its kind. It was good quality recorded video, and I am sorry I cannot remember the name who lectured - but I think it was with JLP sponsorship. Thats where I learned all about how to navigate space, how to find the distance of stellar objects and such. Later on that followed with JLP public lectures, it was a fascinating year for me.

Part of Astro 101 was the Drake equation, and I am sure you are familiar with it. Well, its been 20 years, and even SETI at home is concluded - the Drake equation is not a promise, its more like an Omen.

Going back some 6 million years, and we see just how close the evolutionary line of Homo Sapiens came to extinction. We know that many other species close to the man ape went extinct, I think their number is in the hundreds.

Human ignorance, laziness, and just a cosmic-level plain stupidity keeps the total extinction just around the corner. Forget about all else, and if you think about it even a civilization-ending event would be a salvation. Unfortunately that is no longer the chance, when we go broke we are going to disappear.

I am sorry to be a Debbie Downer, but I have very little hope in Humanity. I should have ignored History, because ignorance is Bliss.

EDIT: JPL, not JLP - Jet Propulsion Lab..

2021-10-13 18:07:26

Jason Cook

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This is not on topic.