Ep. 69: Neil deGrasse Tyson on Cosmic Perspectives, Aliens, AI and Thinking Scientifically
Bounce! Conversations with Larry Weeks
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The Future of Exploration and Discovery
If you maintain an active presence on a research and exploration frontier, it's hard to imagine how that won't come back and improve civilization in some highly tangible way. Imagine what the world would be if we turn the solar system into our backyard. It already is our backyard, but a backyard that we have explored. If the solar system becomes our backyard, we would have access to resources that historically have been the cause of war between and among ourselves. That would get rid of an entire category of warfare, just starting there. And then you'll save civilization from the fate that the dinosaurs confronted 65 million years ago. You'd know if they had a space program, they would have deflected that
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