It is incredible that in this day and age you have made the abysmal mistake of expressing with clarity your ignorance and carelessness in what concerns to the problem of the HEATING UP OF THE EARTH BY GREENHOUSE GASES EFFECT. I understand that you are unaware of the intricate business such as the ‘feedback gain’ or even that you are unable to see beyond your lack of culture when someone talks you about ‘non-linear differential systems’. But what I fail to understand is what on earth you where thinking to have led to you loosing thousands of votes of the people who trusted in you, but who won’t anymore. I remind you what you’ve said:
“I’ve brought here ten of the most important scientists in the world and none of them has guarantied to me what the weather will be like in Seville tomorrow. Therefore how could anybody possibly say what will happen in the world in 300 years”
“…there are more important problems, as the ones of the energy sector, or the CO2 emissions”
With your first sentence, I understand that you speak without knowing what you’re talking about. This is a good habit that even I like to practice; but you have to know how to do it. With the second one, … where does your worry about CO2 emissions come from?
Listen Mariano**, I regret to say this to you, but you’ll have lost my vote if you don’t change your mind. That I clarify, it won’t be addressed to PRISOE***.
By the way, what you all see in the picture is one of the hundreds of glaciers from the last glaciation that in 70 years have almost gone. I don’t know if you have realized, but plants are blooming again in October****.
NOTES:
* Rajoy is the surname of the candidate for next elections in the right wing opposing political party (PP – Partido Popular).
** Mariano is the name of the candidate.
*** PRISOE is a joke of combining both words PSOE and PRISA. PSOE is the left wing party which is now in the government while PRISA is a very powerful media group of companies that used to be driven by a multimillionaire called Jesús de Polanco. Both, PSOE and PRISA are know to have very strong ties with the purpose of reinforcing each other.
We often ignore the simplest way, perhaps only to be surprised when we take it. It is often so trivial that rejection is unconscious. We decide unintentionally, that multiple disjointed explanations of facts are more satisfactory than the underlying platitudes of the set of phenomena that we attempt to understand. It happened some days ago that a group of acquaintances came to me alarmed and astonished by the fact that two lemons, that several minutes ago had been thrown to the sea with a gap of a few inches between them, still remained floating with the same separation. There was a debate about the mysterious force that could be holding them apart. It needed to be of such a nature that it cancelled the tireless tendency of the citrus fruits to joint. Nature was becoming unpredictable and it was challenging the common sense of the alarmed audience of another one of her games. It was causing surprise to those who could only be amazed by a novelty, of those who had forgotten very soon that things such as fruits, pens and planets keep doing whatever they were doing until something interferes in their way. The lemons’ path was only disturbed, almost equally, by some gusts of wind and some waves that were not breaking. It was impossible that they could have approached or moved away in a noticeable distance. That would have been surprising and alarming.
I have run into the challenge, in numerous occasions, of ascertaining what underlying and more general explanation clarifies the collection of phenomena that often arises, that is connected in a suspicious way, but it is also wisely disguised. From the most humane problems to the most natural mysteries, they all conceal, from my own personal experience, a simpler and more general explanation that makes life a more rational and understandable experience for those of us who don’t have the slightest idea of what is all about. Examples such as the fact that bulbs, microwaves, common ovens, the resistance of a bridge, the transparency of a glass, fires, chemical reactions, magnets, electricity, car engines, aircraft engines, sound, computers, the Internet, prisms and springs, all of them so different apparently, have their fundamental description based on three very simple actions: a photon goes from one place to another, a charge goes from one place to another, a photon is absorbed or emitted by a charge, is one more proof of how simple things seem to be the machinery of complex things.
I will not keep on going giving demonstrations of how simple ideas can explain a collection of different phenomena, for it is a fact so habitual that it is not worth investing either your time or mine in reasserting it; it is more convenient that you observe for your self what is going on out there. Nevertheless, I would like to encourage you to try to be as imaginative as you can, to ask yourself as much things as you can and to not stop being curious as to what happens in front of your eyes when you are looking somewhere else, because it is life and as I have already told you, it is not as complicated as it seems to be.
Como habréis podido leer en las noticias de los últimos meses, la Agencia Espacial Estadounidense NASA está preparando el regreso a nuestro satélite. Los presupuestos están aprobados y la previsión es que alrededor del año 2015 habrá un hombre caminando de nuevo sobre él. Esta vez, sin embargo, se presenta diferente. Los objetivos resultan ser mucho más ambiciosos que los de 1969. La Luna, lejos de ser la meta, será una parada en el camino para lo que se avecina como la mayor aventura en la que el ser humano se haya embarcado jamás. Hace hoy diez días que la NASA ha solicitado al Centro de Vuelo Espacial Marshall la proposición del pedido de la fase superior del vehículo de lanzamiento conocido ya como Ares I. Este nuevo cohete asumirá las funciones de lo que se entiende como nave versátil, una novedad para el programa espacial. Será capaz tanto de poner satélites en órbita y llevar astronautas a la Estación Espacial Internacional como de traspasar las fronteras de la Tierra y llevar al ser humano a dos mundos tan diferentes como son la Luna y Marte.
La NASA y el gobierno de los Estados Unidos presentan seis razones principales por las que deciden iniciar esta aventura:
Civilización Humana: extender la presencia humana en la Luna para habilitar un asentamiento eventual.
Conocimiento Científico: perseguir las actividades científicas que dirigen las cuestiones fundamentales sobre la historia de la Tierra, el Sistema Solar y el Universo y nuestro lugar en él.
Preparación de la exploración: probar tecnologías, sistemas, operaciones de vuelo y técnicas de exploración para reducir los riesgos e incrementar la productividad de las futuras misiones a Marte y más allá.
Coalición global: proporcionar una actividad desafiante, compartida y pacífica que une a las naciones en la persecución de objetivos comunes.
Expansión económica: expandir la esfera económica de la Tierra y llevar las actividades lunares con beneficios para la vida a nuestro planeta hogar.
Público comprometido: utilizar una exploración espacial vibrante para enganchar al público, estimular a los estudiantes y ayudar a desarrollar las herramientas de alta tecnología que se requieren para afrontar los retos del mañana.
“La Tierra es la cuna del pensamiento, pero uno no puede vivir para siempre en una cuna.”
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