Big history, the biosphere, our common future. Senior Lecturer Big History em. @UvA_Amsterdam, biochemist, cult. anthropologist, social historian, peruanista
@Hasselblad Wasn’t it US astronaut Walter Schirra who first took a Hasselblad camera into space, his own initiative, on board his Mercury flight in 1962? That’s how it started. https://t.co/yA43RWqLvW
When I read the Club of Rome’s 'Limits to Growth' report in 1973, I concluded that if their numbers were reasonably correct, we would see around 2030 increasingly fierce competition for increasingly scarce resources, especially oil. That is what we are seeing now, I think.
Just out, my take on: "The State of the World Today and Considering its Future from a Global Historical Perspective": https://t.co/bWcIAads4j
In: Revista de Estudios Globales: https://t.co/fZdqFuaAoQ
Just out, my take on: "The State of the World Today and Considering its Future from a Global Historical Perspective": https://t.co/bWcIAads4j
In: Revista de Estudios Globales: https://t.co/fZdqFuaAoQ
[2512.09643] An [Earth lower] Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions [and increased risk of catastrophic consequences] https://t.co/VETxyTFLum
@Turbinetraveler This movie cannot possibly be of the first flight, because there are two pilots. Orville Wright alone piloted the first successful flight. During the first flight one photo was taken, no movie.
@JuanSanchez0x0 The captain may have flown the plane to the remotest point from land in the Indian Ocean, and have crashed it there hard, in doing so scattering it into a great many pieces. If so, no large remains will be found. This possible scenario fits the available empirical evidence.
@IntEngineering The captain may have flown the plane to the remotest point from land in the Indian Ocean, and have crashed it there hard, in doing so scattering it into a great many pieces. If so, no large remains will be found. This possible scenario fits the available empirical evidence.
Drones, physics and rats: Studies show how the people of Rapa Nui made and moved the giant statues – and what caused the island’s deforestation https://t.co/ed5P8mJoju