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When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?

Bill Nye

Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it.
BILL NYE

Summer Water Bottle Winter
Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn’t, science will fix it.
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Best Come Humans Things Up
There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as “we”; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
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Editors People Two
Nuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.
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Country Discovered Example Fission Nuclear Papers
Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I’m hopeful, but very, very concerned.
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Burning Coal Hopeful
Evolution is a theory, and it’s a theory that you can test. We’ve tested evolution in many ways. You can’t present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
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Evolution Facts Tests Way
I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.
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Assessment Law Three
We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
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Girl Kids Successful Women
I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem.
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Ecosystems Needs People
We are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are at least one of the cosmos’s ways of knowing itself. That fills me with reverence and joy.
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Knowing People Space
When we sit down to draw or paint the sun’s rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you’re left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.
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Blue Generally Light Morning Yellow
Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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Alternatives Class Teaching
I say to the grown-ups, ‘If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that’s completely inconsistent with everything we’ve observed in the universe that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it.’
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Kids Say Want World
The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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Climate Problem Serious
If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
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Kids Recycling Want
Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
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Dollars Inference Real

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?

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When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?

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