@@apedanticpeasant1447General Jackson was a UK general in a NATO operation with a degree in Russian who was able to meet with the Russian commander and sort things out over a convivial meal.
I think my favourite interview of all you've done and even a positive note to end on (I've long asserted that humanity is better now than at any time in the past and actually there's more of a rarity in "bad" human acts that they get highlighted more, hence why we have the perception as humans that humanity is worse).
THIS GUEST IS DANGEROUS: He is basically saying, “Don’t worry. It’s no big deal what’s going on today.” 1. The correlation between people believing in witches to people believing humanity is coming to an end is not any kind of legitimate comparison. One is based on superstition and the other fact. 2. The movie, “Look Up” is NOT “frothy” at all! It’s not a silly look at the “climate crisis.” Because governments, en masse, are ignoring the urgency because they have no F-N idea what to do BECAUSE to DO anything will be a problem for capitalism … a system 85% of the world runs on. Fossil fuel = Capitalism. 3. “We don’t film houses NOT burning,” as an axiom for the media. Unfortunately, it’s NOT just a simple snap-shot we can ignore because the rest of the world ISN’T on fire! BS! Because it’s not just a single snap shot anymore - it’s hundreds. PLEASE NOTE: there is water-use we can’t afford to waste; there are food crops being destroyed, and these are not small fires. These are hundreds of MILES, with animal extinctions. That SNAP-SHOT says A LOT! FUN FACT: Orcas (fish) have apparently made a connection between boats destroying marine life - that they are now attacking and destroying boats.
Men! Wtf? Why do human beings have to be so aggressively competitive? Why can't we fking cooperate like a rising tide lifts all boats? Fish understand Electric Eels!
If we hadn't been so aggressively competitive, we never would have developed to the point that we have as a species. Evolution is brutal. Also, women are just as capable of aggression and competitiveness as men - they just express it differently. Don't be under some sort of illusion that a world populated exclusively by feminity would be all peace and love and mutual understanding. Because it must certainly would not.
He definitely is when it comes to putting things in space. The rapid advances Space X have achieved on their own are an order of magnitude larger than any company or nation has done before. Some of the other stuff like Twitter and Hyperloop... meh
@Pushin:Buttons agree 100%. Elon is just a figurehead. He's not the CEO of SpaceX, nor was he a founder of Tesla, but everyone thinks Elon is some super genius. Most of his wealth is tied in Tesla, whose stock price, and hence his net worth, popped like a bubble recently. Also his decision to buy Twitter based on him wanting to preserve free speech and not for economic reasons has been proven to be a load of bullshit. He paid way over the odds for the platform and now is trying to monetize use of Twitter. So much for some philanthropic super genius...
@Pushin:Buttons Oh of course but I can assure you he is leading that team in a very direct way. Are you aware that he also went back to college to study engineering? He isn't just a sponsor. It's obvious he knows what he's talking about. Compare that to Besos.
For anyone who doesn’t pay attention to this area. Elon Musk is the most important person in the space field by a massive margin. He is almost single handedly responsible of this real space age we are entering.
"less poverty" bruh are they measuring the success of humanity based on the western sphere/world of poltics (again) because the global south is still struggling (some maybe progressing, but no where near enough to say....oh humans are progressing on that scale 🤨). Makes me wonder where that journalists got his infographic information from....
The number of people living in extreme poverty has fallen rapidly in recent decades. If you think where we were 100 years ago I think it's safe to say the world is doing quite well.
The opposite. If you were looking only at the West you could make an argument that standards of living have stagnated. If you look outside the West it's clear that they have improved significantly over the last 30 years.
Note: "the authoritarian block and the 'American-lead block'" are the terms Tim used. Not the democratic block, the "American-lead block". Very subtle and apt word use to imply how much of a shambles western so called 'democracy' is in right now. And regarding Tim's last comment about current politics where he says "understand them, but dont worry about them. Because whats that going to do" I think is an extremely asinine thing to say. We have record homelessness, record poverty, record wealth inequality and many other huge systemic issues that impact people's daily fundamental lives and your suggestion to those people is just 'dont worry about living on the street and not being able to buy food, Its not like you have the black death or are fighting a world war so you have it good in comparison'. Its just ridiculous, worrying about them is going to prompt action, its going to bring people together to persue justice and its important because otherwise nothing WILL happen. To quote a genius scene from an old film called "Network": "All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!'"
"We need to get the minrals from space that we need for our renewable technology here." How about not wasting the resources we have here on this crap and instead focus on keeping earth as a planet on which humans can live? Is it really too much to ask for some restraint knowing what will happen if we do not manage to slow climate change down? How many minerals and other resources are wasted to get a few minerals back to earth? He clearly didn't think that one through.
Stupid thing I can't get out of my head... if this guy is ever a character in a film or docudrama he has to be played by Sam Neil.
No one has ever seen Sam Neil and this guy together at the same time, just saying!😂
What an amazing interview! Full of hope, insight, inspiration... Kudos to both! ❤
If there is one thing about humanity, it is there is nowhere we couldn't find a reason to fight.
That Kosovo comment was about James Blunt the singer, he prevented ww3 by ignoring an American order.
It was actually Gen Jackson.
@@apedanticpeasant1447General Jackson was a UK general in a NATO operation with a degree in Russian who was able to meet with the Russian commander and sort things out over a convivial meal.
Hard to step forward into future when a Blue Beam is being shined in our eyes.
I think my favourite interview of all you've done and even a positive note to end on (I've long asserted that humanity is better now than at any time in the past and actually there's more of a rarity in "bad" human acts that they get highlighted more, hence why we have the perception as humans that humanity is worse).
Ed, can you record this excellent stuff at a higher level please. Thanks, John
Great interview. Although, I hope I’m dead before galactic politics becomes mainstream…
Fabulous interview to listen to! Might dust off the 360 and play some Halo as preparation.
His books are a great read, very interesting.
Ed, them trainers is drippy, boy… Jheez!
I'm less concerned about lasers and more concerned about a Kessler-Bomb.
Lasers might trigger a Kessler event anyway.
THIS GUEST IS DANGEROUS:
He is basically saying, “Don’t worry. It’s no big deal what’s going on today.”
1. The correlation between people believing in witches to people believing humanity is coming to an end is not any kind of legitimate comparison. One is based on superstition and the other fact.
2. The movie, “Look Up” is NOT “frothy” at all! It’s not a silly look at the “climate crisis.” Because governments, en masse, are ignoring the urgency because they have no F-N idea what to do BECAUSE to DO anything will be a problem for capitalism … a system 85% of the world runs on. Fossil fuel = Capitalism.
3. “We don’t film houses NOT burning,” as an axiom for the media. Unfortunately, it’s NOT just a simple snap-shot we can ignore because the rest of the world ISN’T on fire! BS! Because it’s not just a single snap shot anymore - it’s hundreds. PLEASE NOTE: there is water-use we can’t afford to waste; there are food crops being destroyed, and these are not small fires. These are hundreds of MILES, with animal extinctions. That SNAP-SHOT says A LOT!
FUN FACT: Orcas (fish) have apparently made a connection between boats destroying marine life - that they are now attacking and destroying boats.
Is this guy in space because I don't think I could hear if he screamed. Turn his mic up
Very interesting, though thinking Musk is a revolutionary genius is quite funny
Men! Wtf? Why do human beings have to be so aggressively competitive? Why can't we fking cooperate like a rising tide lifts all boats? Fish understand Electric Eels!
If we hadn't been so aggressively competitive, we never would have developed to the point that we have as a species. Evolution is brutal.
Also, women are just as capable of aggression and competitiveness as men - they just express it differently. Don't be under some sort of illusion that a world populated exclusively by feminity would be all peace and love and mutual understanding. Because it must certainly would not.
I know right? If Hillary Clinton would've won in 2016, we'd have peace on earth by now...
We mostly do cooperate, it's the people we choose to elevate to leadership who don't.
The previous version of the quote citing fire works, let's just assume he meant fire.
Had me up until him mentioning Elon Musk being a revolutionary genius! Everyone's entitled to their own opinion though
He definitely is when it comes to putting things in space. The rapid advances Space X have achieved on their own are an order of magnitude larger than any company or nation has done before. Some of the other stuff like Twitter and Hyperloop... meh
Few geniuses are sane, that doesn't stop them being geniuses.
@Pushin:Buttons agree 100%. Elon is just a figurehead. He's not the CEO of SpaceX, nor was he a founder of Tesla, but everyone thinks Elon is some super genius. Most of his wealth is tied in Tesla, whose stock price, and hence his net worth, popped like a bubble recently.
Also his decision to buy Twitter based on him wanting to preserve free speech and not for economic reasons has been proven to be a load of bullshit. He paid way over the odds for the platform and now is trying to monetize use of Twitter. So much for some philanthropic super genius...
@Pushin:Buttons Oh of course but I can assure you he is leading that team in a very direct way. Are you aware that he also went back to college to study engineering? He isn't just a sponsor. It's obvious he knows what he's talking about. Compare that to Besos.
@@davidkavanagh189he has no idea what hes talking about not a fucking clue, hes a grifter
Interesting discussion. However he completely missed the point of Dont Look Up
For anyone who doesn’t pay attention to this area. Elon Musk is the most important person in the space field by a massive margin. He is almost single handedly responsible of this real space age we are entering.
Fucking loved this video
"less poverty" bruh are they measuring the success of humanity based on the western sphere/world of poltics (again) because the global south is still struggling (some maybe progressing, but no where near enough to say....oh humans are progressing on that scale 🤨). Makes me wonder where that journalists got his infographic information from....
The number of people living in extreme poverty has fallen rapidly in recent decades.
If you think where we were 100 years ago I think it's safe to say the world is doing quite well.
The opposite. If you were looking only at the West you could make an argument that standards of living have stagnated. If you look outside the West it's clear that they have improved significantly over the last 30 years.
@@venmis137 They've not stagnated in the west either. Poverty is now measured as relative because actual poverty is at an all time low.
Pinker. When he mentioned him I started aimlessly scrolling for some reason.
Note: "the authoritarian block and the 'American-lead block'" are the terms Tim used. Not the democratic block, the "American-lead block". Very subtle and apt word use to imply how much of a shambles western so called 'democracy' is in right now.
And regarding Tim's last comment about current politics where he says "understand them, but dont worry about them. Because whats that going to do" I think is an extremely asinine thing to say. We have record homelessness, record poverty, record wealth inequality and many other huge systemic issues that impact people's daily fundamental lives and your suggestion to those people is just 'dont worry about living on the street and not being able to buy food, Its not like you have the black death or are fighting a world war so you have it good in comparison'. Its just ridiculous, worrying about them is going to prompt action, its going to bring people together to persue justice and its important because otherwise nothing WILL happen.
To quote a genius scene from an old film called "Network":
"All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!'"
We are not paying for stupid space missions 🙄
Why not just pull all are recourses together, oh wait the world hates efficiency
And I think it can be said this will be the biggest pile of utter bollocks I will hear today.
"We need to get the minrals from space that we need for our renewable technology here." How about not wasting the resources we have here on this crap and instead focus on keeping earth as a planet on which humans can live? Is it really too much to ask for some restraint knowing what will happen if we do not manage to slow climate change down? How many minerals and other resources are wasted to get a few minerals back to earth? He clearly didn't think that one through.
So laser satellites 🤨 in the earth orbit in space, what a complete waste of money
that depends on your objectives
Sweden is planning to leave the EU ( Swexit fears hit EU, daily express) Michael Heaver on RUclips has made a video with all the information
Michael Heaver lmao.
Rods from god. Tungsten steel rods simply dropped from high orbit. Kinetic enegy
🤠💜
Dude has been watching too much Star Wars.
🤭
Spaceballs
For *defensive purposes" only. Oh 🚜
This comment still stands as a oh 🚜
These are the stores that make us wish the sun would just hurry up and go supernova or another galaxy eats our own solar system.
In space no one can hear your screams 😂. It sounds like thay want to play lazer tag in space Chinese style 😊
Bollocks
EVERY NERD JUST CREAMED THEIR KNICKERS