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Originally Posted by Blue Fire  First, nice new avatar Dragon Star! Heh, between avatars and wallpapers, you're such a changeable guy! Never satisfied with the status quo, eh? 
Second, it appears to me, after reading all the posts, that the central issue of evaluating any scenario is most probably our estimation of just how far the Apathy of people goes. There, I said it, Apathy. So sad isn't it, that so many issues - political, scientific, even religious - are so frought with the apathy factor. So, in a very real way, our discusson here must naturally devolve to the underlying issue that I think astronomy has been battling for a very long time - disinterest, apathy, chosen ignorance.
I have a large circle of friends from highschool that has survived over 40 years of everybody going their own ways and having a life apart from the group. We've always hung together though with regular get togethers every year or so - sort of like min-reunions. BUT, I seem to be the odd man out so many times, because of my interest in science and particularly astronomy. I tend to get blank stares or simple dismissive responses whenever I try to start a conversation about cosmology, theoretical physics, the expansion of the universe, etc. They just don't care. They don't see those issues as affecting them in any way. And, they'll just shrug when you tell them that life on Earth could be wiped out so easily in any number of ways that are actually long overdue if scientific estimates are anywhere near accurate regarding the frequency of devastaing incidents.
Sigh. I guess we just need to hire some good PR firms, eh? |
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Hi Blue, hope you and yours well and happy.
Blue, apathy is defined as a lack of interest or concern about something.
I feel something understood. Theres the rub, as Shakespeare would have
it. What we not understand, we pay no mind to. Blue, you can only converse with like mind. For most, the daily grind is all, tomorrow is just
another day, that is all they care about. To you and I Blue, and many
like us, our desire to reach the stars transends everything.
So does our desire to really understand our environment, and what
threatens it. But tell that to the man in the street?
You are not odd man out, you real man in.
Nokton
09-13-2006
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