Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Series)

by Neil deGrasse Tyson

This universality of physical laws tells us that if we land on another planet with a thriving alien civilization, they will be running on the same laws that we have discovered and tested here on Earth—even if the aliens harbor different social and political beliefs.

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Furthermore, if you wanted to talk to the aliens, you can bet they don’t speak English or French or even Mandarin. Nor would you know whether shaking their hands—if indeed their outstretched appendage is a hand—would be considered an act of war or of peace. Your best hope is to find a way to communicate using the language of science.

The LED revolution in advanced lighting technology creates pure visible light without wasting wattage on invisible parts of the spectrum.

Look unto the stars to teach us How the master’s thoughts can reach us Each one follows Newton’s math Silently along its path.

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I forget that too many people act in wanton disregard for the delicate interplay of Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and land, with consequences that our children and our children’s children will witness and pay for with their health and well-being.

Amazing words!

In that bleak world, arms-bearing, resource-hungry people and nations would be prone to act on their “low contracted prejudices.”