اضحك وابكي وتعلم في الواقع الافتراضي

كوكب الزهرة له تأثير الاحتباس الحراري الجامح. أريد نوعًا ما أن أعرف ما حدث هناك لأننا ندير المقابض هنا على الأرض دون أن نعرف عواقب ذلك. كان لدى المريخ مياه جارية ذات يوم. انها العظام الجافة اليوم. لقد حدث شيء سيء أيضًا. الكون فرحان! مثلا درجة حرارة كوكب الزهرة 900 درجة. أستطيع أن أقول لك أنه يذوب الرصاص. ولكن هذا ليس ممتعا مثل القول: “يمكنك طهي البيتزا على حافة النافذة في تسع ثوان”. وفي المرة القادمة التي يأكل فيها المعجبون البيتزا، يفكرون في كوكب الزهرة!

I don’t want to leave this planet until I achieve everything that I was put here to do.

Tyler Perry

Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn’t have a space program, so they’re not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don’t want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.

Let’s find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of ‘planet,’ which, of course, only ever meant, ‘Do you move against the background stars, regardless of what you’re made of?’

Earth Might One Day Soon

Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they’re made of, possibly tag their ears so they’re always broadcasting to us their location. In case one of their trajectories head straight for us, we’ll know well in advance to do something about it.

I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I’m doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world – the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.

There’s a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun.