Comments on: A Peace Prize for Science http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/12/a-peace-prize-for-science/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:13:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Physics Today News Picks http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/12/a-peace-prize-for-science/#comment-84758 Physics Today News Picks Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:07:48 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/12/a-peace-prize-for-science/#comment-84758 [trackback] [trackback]

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]]> By: Martin Vermeer http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/12/a-peace-prize-for-science/#comment-84756 Martin Vermeer Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:03:54 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/12/a-peace-prize-for-science/#comment-84756 So true, so true… I recognize my own thoughts on this. This is great recognition — not for specific scientific achievements, but for the scientific method. America doesn’t deserve Gore for president. And Gore has better things to do. …and about the Nobel Committee chairman saying with a straight face that this should not be construed as a criticism of Bush, that was good for a few giggles over here. I mean, not only has Bush tried to suppress his own climate scientists, but pretty much all his scientists — and his intelligence people, with known disastrous results. And the Iraq energy war… but no, “Any resemblance to real persons alive or dead is purely coincidental”. Sick joke. So true, so true… I recognize my own thoughts on this. This is great recognition — not for specific scientific achievements, but for the scientific method.

America doesn’t deserve Gore for president. And Gore has better things to do.

…and about the Nobel Committee chairman saying with a straight face that this should not be construed as a criticism of Bush, that was good for a few giggles over here. I mean, not only has Bush tried to suppress his own climate scientists, but pretty much all his scientists — and his intelligence people, with known disastrous results. And the Iraq energy war… but no, “Any resemblance to real persons alive or dead is purely coincidental”. Sick joke.

]]> By: Anonymous hero http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/12/a-peace-prize-for-science/#comment-84755 Anonymous hero Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:02:11 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/12/a-peace-prize-for-science/#comment-84755 Dear Clifford, if you think that “the peace prize has been given for work on a scientific issue that affects our lives so profoundly”, then you don’t have to worry about the future of our planet because you are already living at another one. Dear Clifford, if you think that “the peace prize has been given for work on a scientific issue that affects our lives so profoundly”, then you don’t have to worry about the future of our planet because you are already living at another one.

]]> By: Elliot http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/12/a-peace-prize-for-science/#comment-84753 Elliot Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:00:31 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/12/a-peace-prize-for-science/#comment-84753 Clifford, As you know I’m in violent agreement with the sentiments above. It may be that one of the resolutions to Fermi’s paradox is that intelligent civilizations may have a propensity to self-destruct in myriad ways before extraterrestrial exploration is accomplished. We can hope this is a harbinger of a shift in thinking and that wisdom may trump parochial interests in the future. e. Clifford,

As you know I’m in violent agreement with the sentiments above. It may be that one of the resolutions to Fermi’s paradox is that intelligent civilizations may have a propensity to self-destruct in myriad ways before extraterrestrial exploration is accomplished.

We can hope this is a harbinger of a shift in thinking and that wisdom may trump parochial interests in the future.

e.

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