[Q&A+] Organic Universe, Fighting Conspiracies, Most Anticipated Space Event | Q&A 379
Can the whole Universe be a giant organic organism? How to fight back conspiracy theories? Which astronomical even do I anticipate the most? And in Q&A+, who would I interview from the entire history, given such a possibility?
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You can say entertain us, but the correct words are enlightening and educating. For me anyways and as someone that doesn’t do social media of any sort not even YouTube, I don’t need you to challenge anyone not that my needs are of any importance but as someone that appreciates you and your family just keep doing what you’re doing and if you stop doing that then I’ll probably just stop watching. Lol. You know burn Patreon I mean if you write a book I could refer to that like Galileo but in the meantime, yeah I know my jokes are funny.
Why is it that we all assume myself included for the most part that they’re trying to take over everything I mean if they’re so far away and we can’t see them and I get it they’re so advanced they’re going to need way more energy, but they’re planted and their solar system might provide them with enough that they don’t have to do that I think we’re still in the box with grabby aliens 😂
9:40 Fraser, unfortunately, antipathy toward science is not unique to Western culture. The problem is even worse in most Eastern cultures. If you don't believe me, then talk to a Chinese TCM "expert" about how acupuncture works to balance the flow of "qi" energy along "meridians" in the body. Or use Google Street View to virtually drive the streets of a city in India, and notice the Homeopathy shops. They refer to scientific (Western) medicine as "allopathic," and that term is widely considered to be derogatory. 10:08 yes, we still have coastal erosion. We also still have tornadoes, hurricanes, nor'easters, heatwaves, cold snaps, droughts, and floods. We still have all those calamities, but none of them have significantly worsened. So blaming them on "climate change" is "vibe" reasoning, not science. Or, as Feynman would call it, "cargo cult science." "They really do act like weather didn't happen before 1910." - Linnea Lueken In fact, two of those categories of calamities have decreased in severity: 1. The frequency of strong tornadoes has fallen sharply over the last 50 years (as CO2 levels have risen from about 330 ppmv to about 425 ppmv), and 2. Drought impacts are considerably mitigated by higher CO2 levels, because elevated CO2 helps plants use water more efficiently, by reducing stomatal conductance and water lost by transpiration. That's one of the reasons that catastrophic famines are fading from living memory, for the first time in human history. THAT is a very, Very Big Deal. If you doubt it, then look up the death toll in the near-global drought & famine of 1876-78, and the percentage of the human population which that represented (when CO2 levels averaged about 290 ppmv). Climate change is VERY big business. According to Climate Change Business Journal, as cited in the July 30, 2015 issue of Insurance Journal, the global "climate change consulting" market, alone, was a US$1.9 billion/year business. They also reported that the "global climate change industry" as a whole was a mind-boggling US$1.5 trillion/year market sector in 2015, and growing fast. The climate biz really is all about the Benjamins. If you examine the evidence you'll discover that climate alarmism is deeply unscientific. The evidence is compelling that manmade climate change is modest and benign, and CO2 emissions are highly beneficial, just as Nobel laurate Svante Arrhenius predicted, over a century ago.
You probably should just delete your comment. Although nothing you say is untrue, you're going to get BLASTED. People who have bought into the climate change catastrophe business will not listen to or consider any other evidence to the contrary, even from actual scientists (of which there are many, a lot of whom have been de-platformed despite holding PhDs). They'll just label you a crazy person and move on to someone who echoes what they've chosen to believe. To be clear, yes, the climate is clearly changing (as it always has), and yes, evidence indicates we're contributing to or accelerating it in some way, but it's not a "catastrophe", it's not going to "wreck the planet", and people aren't really trying to "solve" it at this point. It's just something people are making money off of. A LOT of money.
The universe is organic, if the composition of the Bennu samples from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is anything to go by, found to contain the building blocks of life: - ribose - glucose - amino acids - nucleobases - ammonia - water We're stardust yes, but more recently we are Bennu dust. 🙃 Extrapolating evidence from Bennu to the entire universe is beyond me, but I do like the Bennu dust vibe. 🤩
The word "organic" has multiple meanings. To a chemist, any compound containing carbon is "organic." To a biologist, it means something created by a living organism. To a grocer it means "grown without pesticides or synthetic fertilizer." To a butcher it means "from the internal organs of an animal." But I'd never heard the word used quite like Mr. Colbey used it in his (not-exactly-a-) question to Fraser.
Your responses to hypotheticals are so incredibly respectful and grounded. You inadvertently teach us communication skills as well.
Why do we assume the civilizations that are out there are more advanced than us?
We are so new to this universe....others have had lots more time to develop.
Wow, that reminded me of the time when we lived in Phoenix and my father woke me up to run outside to look to the eastern pre-sunrise sky. It was amazing. There was a spot about 30 degrees above the horizon that was the center of a constant spray of meteor light. It was rather like the Star Wars star streaks.
Did you have a telescope at any time while you were in Thailand?