Tuesday, January 31, 2017

My take on the "Cosmic Perspective"

I believe that the information provided in Neil Degrasse Tyson's "Cosmic Perspective", is helpful in day-to-day life. His main idea presented is how insignificant we are compared to the rest of the universe and what goes on in unexplored space. In one part of the text Tyson says, "I forgot that too many people act in wanton disregard for the delicate interplay of earth's atmosphere, oceans, and land, with consequences that our children and our children's children will witness and pay for with their health and well-being". I believe that he's saying that if powerful people around the world could get over themselves and take a look at the state the world is in and going towards and tried to help we could make a big difference in things like global warming. If people could all learn to think as one and deal with the same problems, we potentially solve all of our problems that we have or arise. I believe that Tyson's ideas are similar to Jill Bolte Taylor's Ted Ex talk. It's similar in the way that when Jill Bolte Taylor described what she experienced when she lost the left side of her brain. It enlightened her as she experienced something that maybe not even one percent of people on earth get to and fully recover from it. She realized that there's more to us not just what we can perceive. It's similar in a way to Neil Degrasse Tyson's article in that we are but a spec of the universe, there's more to everything than we will probably ever know. But as one of the smartest people on the planet, link here http://superscholar.org/smartest-people-alive/ , I think we can leave that job to him.

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