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"Aliens Cause Global Warming"
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A lecture by Michael Crichton
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
January 17, 2003
My topic today sounds humorous but unfortunately I am serious. I am going to argue that extraterrestrials lie behind global warming. Or to speak more precisely, I will argue that a belief in extraterrestrials has paved the way, in a progression of steps, to a belief in global warming. Charting this progression of belief will be my task today.
Let me say at once that I have no desire to discourage anyone from believing in either extraterrestrials or global warming. That would be quite impossible to do. Rather, I want to discuss the history of several widely-publicized beliefs and to point to what I consider an emerging crisis in the whole enterprise of science-namely the increasingly uneasy relationship between hard science and public policy.
I have a special interest in this because of my own upbringing. I was born in the midst of World War II, and passed my formative years at the height of the Cold War. In school drills, I dutifully crawled under my desk in preparation for a nuclear attack.
It was a time of widespread fear and uncertainty, but even as a child I believed that science represented the best and greatest hope for mankind. Even to a child, the contrast was clear between the world of politics-a world of hate and danger, of irrational beliefs and fears, of mass manipulation and disgraceful blots on human history. In contrast, science held different values-international in scope, forging friendships and working relationships across national boundaries and political systems, encouraging a dispassionate habit of thought, and ultimately leading to fresh knowledge and technology that would benefit all mankind. The world might not be a very good place, but science would make it better. And it did. In my lifetime, science has largely fulfilled its promise. Scientest should not be involved in public policy making.
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digitaldave
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(Posted 2/15/07)
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digitaldave
(2/15):
You must be a liberal, all go and no show (or at least no show of intelligence) Bopper. It CLEARLY says that this is A lecture by Michael Crichton California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA January HE grew up in then. Wow... Help us if we have another liberal for president.
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digitaldave
(2/15):
Hey Bopper, you really are an anus.
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digitaldave
(2/15):
Bopper you are a PERFECT example of the educated idiots that are in congress like Murtha and Pelosi who RUSH to judgment without ANY knowledge or understanding of REAL LIVE FACTS. I take back what I said about you being an anus. You're more like the gelatinous blob of excretion that comes out of an anus. But I love you! :) LOL
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digitaldave
(2/24):
I agree, so you mean that Bopper should never had mad the "Genius" comment right?
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Anonymous
(2/21):
Holyshnikes House Rule No.5. Keep the Love - no hateful or overtly rude comments.
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Anonymous
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You are not only rude, you are dumb.
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Anonymous
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I can't see the point of this post, it seem meaningless
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