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Humanity is in the early stages of the most significant evolution in its history: learning to think as a species.
This is the linking of human minds, values, information and solutions at lightspeed and in real time around the planet, via the internet and social media, says science writer Julian Cribb.
Global thought is opening the way to solve some of humanity's greatest threats – including climate change, famine, global poisoning, weapons of mass destruction, environmental collapse, resource scarcity and overpopulation, says Mr Cribb, who is the author of 'Surviving the 21st Century' (Springer 2017), a new book describing the ten mega-threats and what can be done about them.
"Thanks to the internet and social media, people are for the first time communicating across the barriers of language, race, nationality, religion, region and gender. While the internet contains much rubbish and malignance, it also contains huge amounts of goodwill, trustworthy science-based advice, practical solutions to problems – and people joining hands in good causes."
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday March 29 2017, @06:57AM (1 child)
Well, having faked the moon landings footage doesn't mean everything else we do is bad necessarily. (note I don't care whether we went there or not, I care that you don't believe the moon surface so undulate that shadow converge yet so perfectly horizontal in the movies - unless they now show different stuff on "restored" footage never shown before the issue arose).
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(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Wednesday March 29 2017, @10:33AM
The hard part of getting to the moon is leaving the Earth's gravity. The expensive part of getting to the moon is the booster that gets you out of Earth's gravity. So NASA spent billions of dollars designing, building and launching Saturn V rockets just to fake the relatively cheap and simple landing.... People SAW the rocket launches. They were real. It's pretty safe to assume that the relatively simple and cheap stuff was real too.