Secular Café: 'Curiosity' Signals From Mars That We Can Solve Our Problems On Earth

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'Curiosity' Signals From Mars That We Can Solve Our Problems On Earth Aug 7th 2012, 21:30 Great article on NPR: Quote: 'Curiosity' Signals From Mars That We Can Solve Our Problems On Earth by Adam Frank Our world seems so broken now and so much of it seems our own fault. The whole of our infrastructure — from highways to high schools, power-grids to public universities — seem on the verge of crumbling. The resources to repair or expand these arteries of public life are gone, we are told, in part because four years ago the economy was jerked to halt through (what appear to be) selective acts of titanic greed and apocalyptic mismanagement. So we turn to our political structures to solve these great issues, only to find they are frozen. Serious debate and discourse have become impossible and, it seems, only the loudest, most intransigent, most divisive voices are given the stage. Meanwhile, the respiration of the planet — its pathways of atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere — have all shifted, an unintended consequence of our own culture building. The climate is changing. Yet we can't even begin a serious conversation about that reality. We face radical new challenges that demand a new kind of national maturity. Our response suggests that we've come down with a national contagion of puerile incompetence. And then along comes Curiosity. ..... http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2012/0...blems-on-earth

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