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“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before!”
– Gene Rodenberry (19 August 1921 – 24 October 1991) The opening lines of the most famous science fiction show ever made. Star Trek showcased many technologies that are now common place. It started at least one astronaut on her career. Lets all praise Nichelle Nicols. Credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/3008fl/mae_jemison_the_first_black_astronaut_and/ The show presented a future that normalised…
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“Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.”
– Socrates (469-399 BC) This quote appears in the Plato’s Dialogue, Phaedo, around 109e. The Greek text is: τὸ δὲ εἶναι ταὐτόν, ὑπ᾽ ἀσθενείας καὶ βραδυτῆτος οὐχ οἵους τε εἶναι ἡμᾶς διεξελθεῖν ἐπ᾽ ἔσχατον τὸν ἀέρα: ἐπεί, εἴ τις αὐτοῦ ἐπ᾽ ἄκρα ἔλθοι ἢ πτηνὸς γενόμενος ἀνάπτοιτο, κατιδεῖν ἂν ἀνακύψαντα, ὥσπερ ἐνθάδε οἱ ἐκ τῆς…
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“There are no borders or boundaries on our planet …”
– Frank White, Author, Space Philosopher, Consultant William Shatner cried upon returning from space. The “overview effect” explains why. The “overview effect”, experienced by astronauts when they view the Earth from outer space, irrevocably changes your perspective as a human. Coined by Frank White in 1987, the overview effect describes what the spaceflight experience, for…
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“… we watched the stars …”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space “Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment, we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but…
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“The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand.”
– Lawrence Krauss: “A Universe from Nothing” “… It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements – the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution – weren’t created at the beginning of time.”…
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“I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I’m an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.”
– Stephen Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) An extract from an interview by Roger Highfield in Daily Telegraph (16 October 2001) where Hawking says, “Colonies in space may be our only hope.” There are certainly a lot of accidents that could befall humanity – and not just the ones we think we…
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