Science Facts & Fun

24/02/2025

The beautiful planet Saturn taken by the James Webb Space Telescope!

24/02/2025

A 400 megapixel photo of Andromeda

24/02/2025

A spectacular celestial event is set to occur as seven planets align in the sky, offering a rare "planetary parade" visible from Earth. This alignment, featuring Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, is a phenomenon that won't happen again until 2040.

24/02/2025

Dr. Carl Sagan teaches the good and bad aspects of Science ✍️

I know that science and technology are not just cornucopias pouring good deeds out into the world. Scientists not only conceived nuclear weapons; they also took political leaders by the lapels, arguing that their nation - whichever it happened to be - had to have one first.

There's a reason people are nervous about science and technology.

And so the image of the mad scientist haunts our world- from Dr. Faust to Dr. Frankenstein to Dr. Strangelove to the white-coated loonies of Saturday morning children's television. (All this doesn't inspire budding scientists). But there's no way back. We can't just conclude that science puts too much power into the hands of morally feeble technologists or corrupt, power-crazed politicians and decide to get rid of it. Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history. Advances in transportation, communication, and entertainment have transformed the world. The sword of science is double-edged. Rather, its awesome power forces on all of us, including politicians, a new responsibility - more attention to the long-term consequences of technology, a global and trans-generational perspective, an incentive to avoid easy appeals to nationalism and chauvinism. Mistakes are becoming too expensive.

-- as mentioned in "Why We Need To Understand Science" (1990)

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