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Meanwhile off-world: The Juno Mission to Jupiter is sending back new detailed images of that gas giant. Above are exotic Ammonia spark lighting storms on Jupiter. Our noise wouldn't qualify as a warmup act. Puts us in perspective. Also our era will be noted as the brief period when a digitally connected spacefaring post-industrial culture. Co-existed with hunter gatherers and medieval siege warfare cultures. Future social anthropologists will be amazed.
Is that what Jupiter really looks like? Incredible. Though I must admit I'm rather glad I'm not there. I think remote-controlled probes are probably the best sort of space exploration, giving us the best bang for the buck information-wise. Images like this, and Cassini's photographs of Saturn, are absolutely invaluable for forming an idea of what the Solar system is really like.
ReplyDeleteAdvanced civilizations have coexisted with tribal societies from time immemorial. If Atlantis or some other ice age civilization existed, which I think it may have done, then it existed while Amazonian indians had already been hunting under the forest canopy for millenia. You can see who has the greater staying power. Civilizations are fragile.
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Our current hunter gatherers will outlast us.
ReplyDeleteThey won't even know we're gone.
As for the Medieval siege war guys. We'll take them with us when we go.