Rusty Schweickart Quotes

• From the moon, the Earth is so small and so fragile, and such a precious little spot in that Universe, that you can block it out with your thumb. Then you realize that on that spot, that little blue and white thing, is everything that means anything to you — all of history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love, tears, joy, games, all of it right there on that little spot that you can cover with your thumb. And you realize from that perspective that you’ve changed forever, that there is something new there, that the relationship is no longer what it was.

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  Art, Block, Mean

  "Reflections From Paris and Beirut" by Samie Al-Achrafi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2015.

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• Al pasar de la luz del sol a la oscuridad y viceversa cada hora y media, eres asombrosamente consciente de lo artificiales que son los miles de límites que hemos creado para separar y definir. Y por primera vez en tu vida sientes en tus entrañas la preciosa unidad de la Tierra y todos los seres vivos que sustenta.

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  Moon, Space, Support

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• Ves la Tierra como un adorno navideño azul y blanco en el cielo negro. Es tan pequeña y tan frágil que te das cuenta de que en ese pequeño punto está todo lo que significa para ti: toda la historia, el arte, la muerte, el nacimiento y el amor.

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  Art, Mean, Blue

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• You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.

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  Space, Appreciate, Wish

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• We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.

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  Order, Survival, Able

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• In the short term, some deadly virus might be more important, but in the long run there is hardly anything more important than asteroids.

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  Running, Long, Important

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• We need early warning systems, technologies to deflect an asteroid - and we need political preparedness as well. It needs to be clear who is to decide what, who launches the rockets, who presents which bills to its citizens. This is a planetary decision. We need to do this all together. Or it will not happen.

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  Technology, Decision, Political

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• Asteroids have hit the Earth millions of times. We can see them as shooting stars every night. When they get bigger, things get complicated. It is only a matter of time until a big one hits us. And since we can do something about it, we should.

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  Stars, Night, Shooting

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• If we do our homework right, never again should an asteroid that can do damage on the ground impact the Earth. We're living in a time-with our technology-we have the capability to eliminate that major shaper of evolution . . . the evolution of life on this planet.

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  Future, Technology, Impact

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• So I just let go with one hand, and just sort of swung around, looked at the Earth below and the black space above and the sun over my shoulder. And, I mean, it was this incredible, spectacular view.

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  Letting Go, Mean, Hands

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• By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part.

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  Responsibility, People, Earth

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• Toda esta cuestión de los límites al crecimiento, que pone un tope psicológico, además de físico, a la expansión potencial de la actividad y la conciencia, ha tenido un efecto muy deprimente en mucha gente..... No creo ni por un momento que exista un concepto con el que se esté trabajando ahora y que vaya a ser seguido como un escenario directo. Pero la idea encarnada en conceptos como colonización espacial o industrialización espacial, o disponibilidad de recursos no terrestres, es fundamental, y cambiará la forma en que la gente mira al futuro.

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  Depressing, Thinking, Availability

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• We can both prevent asteroid impacts and address climate change. It's not either-or.

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  Impact, Addresses, Asteroids

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth. We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.

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  Future, Space, Earth

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• We could not wipe ourselves out with a nuclear war. I do not want so sound too positive. It would be a catastrophe, but it would not be a final one. We are not powerful enough for that. An asteroid could be that powerful. That is why we need to do our homework.

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  Powerful, War, Would Be

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• For the first time in history, we have the chance to change the path of a celestial body. Let's realize what we're talking about here. We would be slightly changing the mechanics of our solar system to enhance our survival. That is gigantic!

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  Talking, Survival, Would Be

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• We not only need to train people, we also need to develop deflection technologies.

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  Tecnología, Personas, Necesidades

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians need to read the notes. Otherwise it will be a disaster.

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  Exercise, Symphony, Practice

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• Anytime we can save lives or prevent the destruction of property, we should do it.

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  Destruction, Save A Life, Should

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• While we didn't know the dinosaurs personally, we do know that they were wiped out by an asteroid impact.

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  Impact, Dinosaurs, Asteroids

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• Journalists often put things into either-or scenarios.

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  Journalist, Scenarios, Either Or

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• I am interested in climate change and other topics too. But this thing is so huge, in the worst case we are talking about the end of our civilization.

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  Talking, Civilization, Topics

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts.

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  Impact, Asteroids, Accepted

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• It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.

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  Earth, Asteroids, Would Be

  "Nudging Killer Asteroids Off Course". "All Things Considered" with Nell Greenfieldboyce, www.npr.org. November 10, 2005.

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• An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.

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  Mean, Alive, Earth

  "Asteroid". "NOVA scienceNOW" with Neil Degrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. October 3, 2006.

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