"he described himself as “a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow."
Sorry ‘Prometheus’ fans: No interstellar travel for five more centuries
Millis, who’s now at the Tau Zero Foundation, also raises an interesting paradox. No matter when we launch the first interstellar probe, it’ll take a long time to reach its destination. Which means it’s quite plausible that we’ll later invent a newer, faster interstellar probe that gets to the star even sooner, with more modern equipment. Which raises the question of why we even bothered to launch that first probe.
Mirrors my problem of when to adopt new technology….
"All the adults are saying, “We need to improve science in the world. Let’s train the kids.” I’ve never heard an adult say, “We need more science in the world. Train me.” I’ve never heard an adult say that. It’s the adults that need the science literacy, the kind of literacy that can transform the nation practically overnight."
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I don’t necessarily think we need to go to Mars, but yeah, an informed, educated public would be good.
Why Does Our Universe Have Three Dimensions? : Discovery News
It’s stuff like this that makes me believe that there is no God. Or maybe that God is a conglomerate of the effects of the remaining dimensions.
