Re:Young Japanese are surprisingly content
by davesque on Saturday April 14, 2018 @01:31PM
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Yeah but climate change. That wasn't really an issue in the 80s. Now we all have to face that fact every day. And don't tell me there's always going to be something. Climate change is different. Not even remotely like anything humanity has faced before.
Re:Young Japanese are surprisingly content
by teslabox on Saturday April 14, 2018 @08:27PM
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> Yeah but climate change. That wasn't really an issue in the 80s.
The foundational assumption of the modern scientific era (circa 1845) is that steam engine physics are a fundamental law of the universe. This guiding constraint is referred to as the "Laws of Thermodynamics"...
Today's scientists have better numbers. Dark energy and dark matter are their realization that something is wrong with 1845's understanding of the laws of nature.
Do you know the song, "We didn't Start the Fire"? [1] Great song. It was released in 1989 - check out the lyrics. Even more interesting though is why the song was written. [2] Billy Joel was in a recording studio talking to a friend of John Lennon's son, who was 21 at the time. They had a conversation:
- Friend: It's a terrible time to be 21 [because the world's going to shit]
- Billy Joel: Yeah, I remember when I was 21 – I thought it was an awful time and we had Vietnam, and y'know, drug problems, and civil rights problems and everything seemed to be awful.
- Friend: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's different for you. You were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that nothing happened in the fifties.
- Billy Joel: Wait a minute, didn't you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis?
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn%27t_Start_the_Fire#His...