Pretty sad, given our intellectual potential, as it took us 100,000 years to get where we are now. Seems that w/o all the wars/fighting/greed/power strugges/tyranny, I feel we would be close to mass space travel right now.
I have to agree with Orleander here. Humans actually seem to need wars/fighting/greed/power strugges/tyranny to get more 'advanced'. Humanity.. Bah !
Lucy darling, I do agree with everything you said. I've lived in Europe, and I miss it very much in that it's a much more liberal place for women. But I don't think that the traditional values and taboo's are good for people's mental health. Because they are indoctrinated at a young age to not be free and to live by the ideals their parents set for them, they cannot explore their lives freely. They are not free to love, they are not free to dream. Women in those countries are bound to the fairy tales they are spoon fed. They are not equal because they cannot dance without knowing that every eye is upon them. I find that sad, but only because I'm a dancer at heart. I know that ignorance is bliss for some people, and that's fine for them but it's just wasted potential. I have trouble imagining a world that was not as colourful or rich with possibilities as the one I live in now.
I disagree. The reason we got into space is because man has the capacity to dream and to put those dreams into action. The reason we went when we did, was a matter of power and a show of ego. But why we went was not driven by anything but the power of imagination.
I have to disagree with you both. Power struggles have hurt us just as much, if not more than helped us. You mean to tell me that the billions of dollars we spent on Iraq couldn't have been used for space research? That's not the only example and the U.S. isn't the only guilty country.
hippies did not put us in space. feel good moments only make hallmark rich, and space craft costs dolla
Yes. That's why scientists get into their fields, because of the raw power it gives them. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Without the scientists and engineers dreams (not hippie dreams) we would have never gotten into space at all. It's not like the military drives people to be inspired... People's imagination drives us to explore our universe, we just went when we did because of the military. We would have gotten there either way at some point, when we explored and understood enough of our own world to find everything else interesting. Galileo dreamed of stars...
Galileo wasn't in the military. We got on the moon due to power struggles. The men who flew were military trained. And a LOT of people are inspired by power
I think you are probably very wrong on that score Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Well people are naturally informed by the culture and society they are born in just as we are. I think its unfair to say they are unfair to dream and love, I didn't notice a lack of dreams or love in Asian women anymore than I do in American women. What you assume about women in Africa and Asia is western bias, what you think they need is also a western bias. Ones ultimate freedom doesn't necessarily lie in how many partners we are able to shag and I think you already know that. The women I have met are not interested in exported american values, they are interested in civil liberties yes, education, poverty reduction but within the framework of their cultural values. I cannot say that I felt these women to be mentally unsound and we cannot judge them by our standards in this way. I just found them conservative when it comes to certain behaviours.
you still make it sound like scientists/engineers were frolicking and laughing in fields of wildflowers before they made the rockets out of gingerbread with gumdrop buttons. some people would have been excited about it, others were just crunching numbers and doing their job. stop making it sound lame. galileo studied stars.
u might be right, i'm not sure. this website http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal...ans-was-a-long-and-winding-one_100128474.html says modern humans appeared around 200,000 years ago, but its not really providing information about intelligence. i got the old biology textbook out, and it says humans appeared more than 2 million years ago, but modern humans appeared 30,000 to 40,000 years ago. its not very specific as its only covering emergence of mankind with a few pages, but imo you can assume victory til proven otherwise. relevant to my earlier argument, the textbook also says "for the past 40,000 years, cultural evolution has been outpacing biological evolution of the human species: humans spread rapidly through the world by devising cultural means to deal with a diverse range of environments."
