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Prof. Steven Weinberg | The International Space Station is an orbital turkey

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“The International Space Station is an orbital turkey….No important science has come out of it. I could almost say no science has come out of it. And I would go beyond that and say that the whole manned spaceflight program, which is so enormously expensive, has produced nothing of scientific value.” Prof. Steven Weinberg, Nobel Price for physics “Die Internationale Raumstation ist ein orbitaler Schrotthaufen….Sie hat keine wichtigen wissenschaftlichen Ergebnisse hervorgebracht. Ich könnte fast sagen, dass keine Wissenschaft aus ihr hervorgegangen ist. Und ich würde sogar noch weiter gehen und…

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David Wardlaw Scott | Children are taught in their geography books, when too young to apprehend aright the meaning of such things

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“Children are taught in their geography books, when too young to apprehend aright the meaning of such things, that the world is a great globe revolving around the Sun, and the story is repeated continuously, year by year, till they reach maturity, at which time they generally become so absorbed in other matters as to be indifferent as to whether the teaching be true or not, and, as they hear of nobody contradicting it, they presume that it must be the correct thing, if not to believe at least to…

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Harry S. Truman | Bait and bleed

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“If we see that Germany is winning, we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.” Harry S. Truman | US-Senators im Jahr 1941 “Wenn wir sehen, dass Deutschland gewinnt, sollten wir Russland helfen, und wenn Russland gewinnt, sollten wir Deutschland helfen und sie auf diese Weise so viele wie möglich töten lassen, obwohl ich Hitler unter keinen Umständen siegen sehen möchte.” Nützliche…

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Bertolt Brecht | Madness becomes invisible

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“Madness becomes invisible when it has reached sufficiently large dimensions.” Bertolt Brecht (allegedly) “Unsichtbar wird der Wahnsinn, wenn er nur genügend große Ausmaße annimmt.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Eduardo Galeano | We live in the container culture, which despises the content

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“We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content.” Eduardo Galeano “Wir leben in einer Welt, in der Beerdigungen wichtiger sind als der Verstorbene, die Ehe wichtiger ist als Liebe, das Aussehen wichtiger als die Seele. Wir leben in einer Verpackungskultur, die Inhalte verachtet.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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George A. Keysworth | All government agencies lie part of the time

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“All government agencies lie part of the time, but NASA is the only one I’ve ever encountered that does so routinely. ” George A. Keyworth, Science Advisor to President Ronald Wilson Reagan in testimony before Congress, March 14, 1985 “Alle Regierungsvertretungen lügen zeitweise, aber NASA ist die einzige, die das so routinemäßig macht.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Michio Kaku | Why do we think that?

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“Why do we think that? Because we have a theory called string theory, it is fantastic it is incredible. It has astounded the world of mathematics, and physics and now you can’t move in the physics world without bumping into somebody who wants to talk about the 10th Dimension the 11th Dimension the Multiverse hyperspace time travel. All the things that were once considered science fiction are now centerpiece in our understanding of the nature of everything.” Dr. Michio Kaku | is one of the best known physicists in the…

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Noam Chomsky | artificial intelligence

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“The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response or most probable answer to a scientific question. On the contrary, the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations. Let’s stop calling it Artificial Intelligence and call it what it is: Plagiarism Software. It doesn’t…