A Conversation with Freeman Dyson
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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The Success of Gravity Wave Detection
Is science today as rebellious as you believe it should be? Of course not but on the other hand science is doing very well especially in space. There's a lot of wonderful space missions being done by governments. Are we humans, are we still giving birth to ourselves? Yes, of course we are and we will always do that. The fact that we survived 20 ice ages does a lot to explain what our characters are like. I'm extremely optimistic about humanity's future because I grew up in the 1930s when things were much worse than they are now.
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