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Part 2 of 2: David Friedberg is All-In on Science (#298)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
What Is the Purpose of Interstellar Travel?
The universe is simply about information transmittal. So the transmission of photons from one point to another provides you everything you need to accumulate more knowledge and more understanding of the universe. And we can sufficiently gather those photons and then we sufficiently can move molecules around using energy to make anything we want locally. What is the purpose of interstellar travel? It suddenly doesn't make sense. There's a book called Parasite Rex, which talks about microbes and parasites that infect organisms and then control those organisms. Humans mood and behavior is so dramatically driven by their gut microbiome. Are we controlling our body or the organisms controlling our body? If the words I'm saying are driven by some set of organisms in my
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