Chris Mallott

Climber, Environmental Scientist, Spaceflight enthusiast, Here for the info

[Chris Mallott @chris_mallott]

Being a hostage to the next thought that comes flying into your mind isn’t useful.

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

"At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice."

~ Gore Vidal

[Chris Mallott @chris_mallott]

@Aella_Girl

[Chris Mallott @chris_mallott]

@DJSnM It was indeed a significant explosion

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

This checks out...

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“We are both clever and stupid in equal measure; capable of understanding the geometry of the universe and yet apparently incapable of managing our own small planet.”

— Brian Cox

[Joe Barnard 🚀 @joebarnard]

Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot - Carl Sagan

[Cosmic Perspective @considercosmos]

Humanity's next great voyage begins

[Benny Feldman @Feldfrog]

Imagine your bike has been at the Wright Brother’s repair shop for weeks and you see Orville suddenly whiz over your head in a contraption

[Joe Barnard 🚀 @joebarnard]

A reminder:

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

[Chris Mallott @chris_mallott]

@DJSnM Could you do a video explaining how the teams fly through hurricanes and their planes used?

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

This. Is. Insane.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.

― Carl Sagan

[Saganism @Saganismm]

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

- Carl Sagan

[Saganism @Saganismm]

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.

I want to grow really old with my wife, Annie, whom I dearly love. I want to see my younger children grow up and to play a role in their character and intellectual development. I want to meet still unconceived grandchildren. There are scientific problems whose outcomes I long to witness—such as the exploration of many of the worlds in our Solar System and the search for life elsewhere. I want to learn how major trends in human history, both hopeful and worrisome, work themselves out: the dangers and promise of our technology, say; the emancipation of women; the growing political, economic, and technological ascendancy of China; interstellar flight.

If there were life after death, I might, no matter when I die, satisfy most of these deep curiosities and longings. But if death is nothing more than an endless dreamless sleep, this is a forlorn hope. Maybe this perspective has given me a little extra motivation to stay alive. The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better, it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look Death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.

- Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

What if the roles were inverted?

[🎞️ mr_relative_]

[Chris Mallott @chris_mallott]

@Rainmaker1973 Jack and Daxter

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

It’s so weird being Iranian right now, scrolling through my feed and seeing all my fellow Iranians praying for freedom, and seeing every white leftist & terror sympathizer praying the oppressor wins… “for humanity.”

[Saganism @Saganismm]

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves... If we become even slightly more violent, shortsighted, ignorant, and selfish than we are now, almost certainly we will have no future.

- Carl Sagan