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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
 Posted - 06/25/2008 : 14:03:26 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by Simon
Also, it justifies cooperation for self-serving purposes; not moral reasons. |
Any basis for morality is going to have to be something "not moral," or else morals become circular (they'd be morals because they're based on morals). |
That's a good point. I didn't see it like that before.
Well; I'll got to bed a little bit wiser today; thanks.
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
 Posted - 06/26/2008 : 09:02:40 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Chippewa
Neil DeGrasse Tyson on How to Deflect a Killer Asteroid. This is not from TAM6 but Kil's cool descriptions of him reminded me of this clip.
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Oh hey, I just saw the clip. Don't know why I didn't look at it until now. Distracted I guess.
Anyhow, that was exactly what Tyson was talking about. Only at the reception, my arm was the astroid (headed for Santa Monica) and a bent straw stood in for the diversion device.
What is funny is how he plucked the straw from the womans drink and told her not to worry, he would return it. Then he bent it in half. So now I am wondering if the guy interviewing Tyson in the clip got his battery back.
When I do my write up I may want to use that clip. It's pure Tyson...
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 08/20/2008 : 09:19:29 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by Kil
And last year, he took the picture I have of me with Rebecca Watson. |
The picture that few people have seen...
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Anyone who has looked at Our third Summer Spectacular summary issue from last year has seen the picture...
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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