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As Thoreau would say... "We are a constitutive part of nature rather than of society." Intellect we have... We do not generalize wisdom. I don't think a superior species escapes the rules of nature... Wolves and lambs.
Great response Dr. Tyson! And in our blithering idiocy, we even dare to call ourselves the center of the Universe... "O te pito o te henua", as the Rapa Nui people used to say.
We would be the worst possible Ferengi-Cardassian-Klingon mix of the galaxy.
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As Thoreau would say... "We are a constitutive part of nature rather than of society." Intellect we have... We do not generalize wisdom. I don't think a superior species escapes the rules of nature... Wolves and lambs.
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Great response Dr. Tyson! And in our blithering idiocy, we even dare to call ourselves the center of the Universe... "O te pito o te henua", as the Rapa Nui people used to say.
We would be the worst possible Ferengi-Cardassian-Klingon mix of the galaxy.
