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But now they can, besides what's the point of a blacked out professional astronaut? I'm with @zapatos on this, it seems valid risk for the extra cargo. But as to the wisdom of space tourism, it's one of the few taxes on a billionaire; why not let them pay for, an otherwise public investment.

Here's a mirror...

me too... I just wonder...

I hesitate to object, since this is in the lounge, but isn't a fog a way to obscure what we see?

Na, he'll just blame it on the fog of war... 🙂

Yes, aren't they beautiful?

Education is always free, much like protection is always a racket... It's how we stear the education/racket, that's valuable...

Maybe, if you can create a bacteria that ingested plastic and farted oxygen, and then die in a convenient way. Otherwise I'm with @exchemist we have to consider, whether an artificial solution is worth the risk.

We are all free to learn, debt is a means to suppress that freedom. It's mocking your intelligence...

You can't know or understand everything (even Google), information is just a means to an end; you need to figure out what, tiny bit, you want to understand and use the appropriate information to achieve that.

No, it's going to fast because you're skipping steps; you can't understand tomorrow's lesson before you've understood todays lesson. You're trying to run before you can walk. That's the job of an accountant, they use stats to mean what they want it to mean; if you want to expose them learn the job not their ethics. Whatever you may think (not hard enough), you too are part of a herd; are you sure you're in the best herd? Read (or watch) Animal Farm - George Orwell; then get back to us...

Science, religion it makes no difference; it's only when you've understood the script, are you qualified to be critical of it. Until then, your bias will overcome your critical thinking, whether your a priest or a scientist.

If you don't read he script, you'll never understand what it's trying to teach.

Let's not assume, for now; "I always thought a joke is a way of codifying information" - Frankie Boyle

What makes you think life is fair? You can choose to be a slave if you want, but that will eat you alive because you let it. If anything science steals from religion, in this context; only hate can steal people's hearts - there's nothing wrong in fighting for a cause - but only hate seeks to control. I love my life, despite all the hate in the world, that's my choice. Spread the word...

I think we tend to believe/trust what our village teaches us, especially when it's done with kindness; there's no reason to doubt. That can be used to teach hate as easily as it can to teach love. The problem's with teaching hate is, karma; the scientific term is, causation. Science doesn't differentiate, but it does undermine, when pointing out discrepancies in two book's written thousands of year's apart that have been artificially shoehorned together; it's like shoehorning ptolemy and Einstein into one book and then saying "there you go, it's obviously all bollox."

I'm happy with that...

Nor me...

I'm not trying to diminish the practicality's of science (I love what science has taught me, for real @studiot), I'm trying to show philosophy to be equally valuable and practical in most people's lives... If we consider most people to be religious and I think the stats would support this, so real for most people is philosophy, on a background of science that they don't understand. Science doesn't care either way, it just tries to predict a future, but Buddha et al does. So, if we want a world in balance and sustainable; we need philosophy, via people's current understanding, to build a bridge of understanding that doesn't involve fear of tomorrow. If we want to fear less, we need to laugh more.

That was mine, in my thread; but I get why it got thrown out with the bath water...

A dog doesn't suffer that way... 😉

Have you considered that you're, maybe, over-thinking the problem?

Isn't this the real difference? Philosophy seeks for the truth of life as it is "'Does a dog has Buddha nature?'." Yes, a dog can't help it, it has no idea about tomorrow, so if it's fed and watered it can sleep easy. Science seeks to solve an equation. Sure, we get better car's through science and maybe that solves the problem of car's, but it doesn't ask why we need car's, tomorrow. If we use our intelligence to predict a reason to fear, then we'll never sleep easy. I'm not saying science isn't valuable; I'm just asking, why is it more valuable?