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#1 The next habitable planet is Mars, which is the most survivable other planet in our solar system. But that’s not saying much. Other planets are more horrible. With the sun high in the sky, you would enjoy temperatures as high as 68° F on Mars, but if you exited the ship at one of the poles, the temperature could be less than −200° F.
#2 Exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, seem to offer the possibility of a livable atmosphere and surface. However, before we pop the champagne and pour our savings into SpaceX, we should consider what it takes to get to another planet.
#3 We can’t know what life would be like on Proxima Centauri b, or what the place even looks like. But we can imagine that it’s a perfectly habitable place, with warm winds and a liquid ocean, and strange, vivid landscapes of rock and vegetation.
#4 The trip to Proxima Centauri b, the closest exoplanet to Earth, would take more than 130,000 years. We wouldn’t be able to travel at that speed, and human life spans are too short for the trip. We would need to put ourselves in a coma for the journey.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	20 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669355441
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

The next habitable planet is Mars, which is the most survivable other planet in our solar system. But that’s not saying much. Other planets are more horrible. With the sun high in the sky, you would enjoy temperatures as high as 68° F on Mars, but if you exited the ship at one of the poles, the temperature could be less than −200° F.

#2

Exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, seem to offer the possibility of a livable atmosphere and surface. However, before we pop the champagne and pour our savings into SpaceX, we should consider what it takes to get to another planet.

#3

We can’t know what life would be like on Proxima Centauri b, or what the place even looks like. But we can imagine that it’s a perfectly habitable place, with warm winds and a liquid ocean, and strange, vivid landscapes of rock and vegetation.

#4

The trip to Proxima Centauri b, the closest exoplanet to Earth, would take more than 130,000 years. We wouldn’t be able to travel at that speed, and human life spans are too short for the trip. We would need to put ourselves in a coma for the journey.

#5

A generation ship is a real concept that could reprogram the behavior of everyone on board. It is every sociological and psychological challenge of modern life, amplified and stretched out over generations.

#6

The first loop is human behavior as it has been inherited by evolution. The second loop is the way that modern forces, such as consumer technology, capitalism, and marketing, have sampled that behavior and reflected it back at us.

#7

We must stand back and recognize the ancient preconditions in all of us that make The Loop possible. We must spot the modern paths it takes into our lives, and then break its influence on our future.

#8

In World War I, an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist named Otto Pötzl experimented on a man who had been shot through the head. The man had a blind spot between him and the world, and could sometimes describe the shape of his blind spot.

#9

The Pötzl phenomenon is the idea that we receive information fragments out of order, and that our brains hold back all that stimuli and orders it for us. It is as if we experience the world through an abstracting process.

#10

Since the 1950s, scientists have been trying to understand how much of reality we actually experience. They’ve found that the endless phenomena we observe through our senses are smashed and reordered by our brain as it makes the most efficient sense of each scene.

#11

Our vision is not under direct control of our will. Our actions feel voluntary, but they are not. The brain assembles the things we’ve touched into its own imaginary rendition of them.

#12

Hearing is also used to help remember things in the correct order. For example, children who are deaf tend to do worse on tests of sequential abilities, even when their other senses are intact.

#13

Our experience of the world feels real to us, but it is actually the brain’s interpretation of reality. The human brain is built to accept what it’s told, especially if what it’s told conforms to our expectations and saves us tedious mental work.

#14

The idea that sight is much more than what we consciously see has been considered fringe for years. However, scientists have been able to study sight by looking at those who have been deprived of it, and their subjects are often compromised in other ways.

#15

De Gelder found that blindsighted people, like her patient TN, can see things without realizing it. They can see emotions on other people’s faces without having any visual contact with the person at all.

#16

There is a growing field of research that explores how our brains absorb, act on, and transmit logistical and emotional information. It is clear that our brains are in charge of almost everything we do, and they take unconscious clues from others and act on them without having to bother our conscious minds.

#17

Our brains are constantly making decisions and judgments, and they do so unconsciously. If we don’t understand the mechanisms of our brains, we'll be vulnerable to those who prey on us and blind to the effects.
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The currency of science is the published paper.

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