Science & Technology/Big Island ...love/hate?

[AlohaSteven]

I appreciate the perspective and sincerety of people who sued to stop the LHC even though, so far at least, the start-up of the Large Hadrom Collider appears to be a glowing success and without mishap. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/bigbang/

Who knows that but for their directing attention to the issue the calculations and reasoning may have (indeed, probably) underwent a more intense level of scrutiny than would otherwise have been the case. We all would have benefited from exactly that happening a few years ago when a perfectly functional spacecraft was launched from Earth, transited successfully to Mars, and was then plowed into a mountainside because someone forgot to convert from miles to kilometers in a flight trajectory programming calculation on altitude and nobody else caught the blunder. The Mars probe performed flawlessly and exactly as it was designed and instructed, right into a mountainside.

I appreciate the folks who brought their crystal to Hawaii so that it could commune with the vibrations of a local Hawaiian crystal, too, as certainly the dollars they spend here are just as green as anyone else's and they are probably not doing any harm. Diverse perspectives add to the mix and enhance results, imho, although it can be genuinely frustrating attempting to arrive at consensus on important decisions with folks who have a hugely different paradigm or worldview. That last part is why I'd like to understand peoples' thinking better. At some levels I think both the scientist from the Western intellectual tradition, the folks with crystals, or someone with a TKE-based or spiritually-based interpretation of consensual reality can all "be right" at the same time. When one tries to block the other though, there can be difficulties. All living together in the same community on the same island, better understanding across those subcultures seems constructive.



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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

Pres. John Adams, Scholar and Statesman


"There's a scientific reason to be concerned and there's a scientific reason to push for action. But there's no scientific reason to despair."

NASA climate analyst Gavin Schmidt

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