I think we do subconsciously pass discrimination on to our kids, it just gets slightly watered down, more hidden, or more inventive with each generation. It's something that we ought to consider, rather than pretend discrimination, whether racial or another kind, will go away if we ignore it.
I get that you'll always have friendship groups of like-minded people and that's really nice, but it would be even nicer if the political tribalism would begin, or maybe continue, to break down.
I don't get agreeing with everything someone says just because they are the tribe you want to belong to. Few people are right all the time, or wrong all the time.
I did my maths O Level over 40 years ago and some stats in uni about six years later. I had to teach myself the stats I needed for my thesis which I did from a book that explained everything in terms of bunnies and tortoises.
Thanks for the offer, but I'm keener on finding out what message you'd send out into space if you could.
My point was, in theory, no matter how big the universe is, or how far away the little green people are, at some point they might hear the Neighbours theme tune.
This thread is turning out to be a bit of a nerdathon, which I'm enjoying very much indeed.
I terms of the size of the universe (as we know it, Jim), when we send radio signals, how long do they last?
If we are truly obsessed with our own uniqueness, wouldn't we avoid trying to make contact with other life forms? Or maybe we like the state of permanent anticipation.
I read kids books, too. It's sometimes to preview them, sometimes out loud for kids, or sometimes I just read what the kids are reading because they're good books.
I've not read the ET ones, but a little ... ...aaand...E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, or E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet?
I still feel sorry for you that you can't see Trump's dangerousness.
(but I do agree that politics, especially huge country, unwieldy politics, is corrupt by nature. I just don't agree that Trump is a healthy, incorrupt means of challenging the establishment. He's just more of the same and worse in many ways.)
My dad was conscripted into the Royal Signals in the 50's and is a radio amateur. From my earliest memories of him he's been sending nerdy messages into space as a biproduct of that.
I was trying to leave room for a discussion on whether we should send signals, or not, but yeah, shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
That's a really interesting ethical point.
The thought of other life out there is likely pretty mind-blowing for most people. If other life is discovered, or even more so if contact is made, I'd be pretty miffed if I were deprived of that profundity during my lifetime.
I've just watched a 1970's version to see if a different image of human kind might be projected, but what I found most notable were cuts to the audience that were less well synchronised with the rhythm.
Extra terrestrial's with no concept of human culture might assume the etiquette for the audience is to clap and dance offbeat. Imagine trying to practice in readiness for contact.
Extra terrestrial communication.
Infinite Trumps...?"And god came to me, a big god, very nice god, he came to me with tears in his eyes, and he said, Donald, you are truly one in a million..."