The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It’s going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent’s generation.
Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.
The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don’t fool with that.
But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world’s premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.
If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.
There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as “we”; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
People that don’t want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That’s the key to the future.
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.
Evolution is a theory, and it’s a theory that you can test. We’ve tested evolution in many ways. You can’t present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
I like to regard myself as someone who’s capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back.
I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.
If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. Youre not paying attention to whats happening in the universe around you.
We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
I’ve got no problem with anybody’s religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that’s just wrong.