
The Choice Is Ours
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- 2015
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(0.00 / 0 votes)[Larry King, host] Alright, let's explore
and the society that he'd like to see.
(Jacque Fresco) The reason
we emphasize machines and technology
is to free man
Machines ought to do the filthy,
repetitious, or the boring jobs.
It would take ten years
to change the surface of the Earth.
To save our environment,
[considering] our stupidity, our conflict,
we've got to reorganize our way of thinking
and reconsider our social aims.
We must put our mind to this
as we do to put a man on the moon.
[Jeff Hoffman, retired NASA astronaut]
Like many kids, when I was 6 years old
I'm old enough that,
back then, the only astronauts were
Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers.
I went on and became a professional astronomer.
I was lucky enough to get selected
in the first group of shuttle astronauts.
We trained for a long time.
Of course, you go through
many different types of simulators.
But when you're actually
sitting up there on the rocket,
you realize that "Hey, this is not the simulator!"
shaking a little bit on the pad.
Then, you hear this roar down beneath you.
The whole shuttle tilts forward a little bit.
Then, as it comes back to the vertical position,
all of a sudden,
Wham! The solid boosters ignite.
There's an incredible vibration and noise.
For the next two minutes,
there is just so much power
that you're sitting on top of.
I was just holding on, thinking to myself
"Whoa! I hope this whole thing holds together."
Sure enough, it did.
By that time, we're looking out the window.
The blue sky has already
turned to the blackness of space.
And I can see in the distance
the coast of Africa coming up into view.
I always remember that feeling
on my first flight when I realized:
Wow, you're in space!
You see from orbit the sunrises and sunsets
Flying over the Earth at night, in particular
gives you a real sense of human civilization.
During the day, you look down
and you see the colors of the Earth.
You see the forms of the landmass,
of the continents.
There's a lot of beautiful things
to see during the day.
There's also the view of the impact
that humans have had on our planet,
and that can be pretty scary.
Over the course of 11 years of flying
I watched as the Amazon jungle
was continually being deforested.
[Rondnia, Brazil 2010
24 years of deforestation]
At night, you'd constantly see agricultural burning
all over the world.
You could see harbors being silted up.
You could see, in Africa,
how the tree line would go up every year.
and what we're doing to the atmosphere.
That's the other thing
you really get a sense of from space
is how thin our atmosphere is.
Basically, the idea that
we're seeing this environmental damage
on the Earth, created by humans,
but we see it from a cosmic perspective,
means that it's just
not something that we can ignore.
The planet is responding
to the presence of humanity.
[Carl Sagan, "Pale Blue Dot", 1994]
The Earth is a very small stage
in a vast cosmic arena.
Think of the rivers of blood
spilled by all those generals and emperors
so that in glory and triumph
they can become the momentary masters
of a fraction of a dot.
[Earth from 3.7 billion miles]
Think of the endless cruelties visited
by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel
on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants
of some other corner.
How eager they are to kill one another,
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