Quotes by Rusty Schweickart

Rusty Schweickart

An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.

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Anytime we can save lives or prevent the destruction of property, we should do it.

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Save A Life

Should

As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of boundaries we’ve created to separate and define. And for the first time in your life you feel in your gut the precious unity of the Earth and all the living things it supports.

Moon

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Support

Asteroids have hit the Earth millions of times. We can see them as shooting stars every night. When they get bigger, things get complicated. It is only a matter of time until a big one hits us. And since we can do something about it, we should.

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Stars

By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part.

Earth

People

Responsibility

For the first time in history, we have the chance to change the path of a celestial body. Let’s realize what we’re talking about here. We would be slightly changing the mechanics of our solar system to enhance our survival. That is gigantic!

Survival

Talking

Would Be

From the moon, the Earth is so small and so fragile, and such a precious little spot in that Universe, that you can block it out with your thumb. Then you realize that on that spot, that little blue and white thing, is everything that means anything to you — all of history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love, tears, joy, games, all of it right there on that little spot that you can cover with your thumb. And you realize from that perspective that you’ve changed forever, that there is something new there, that the relationship is no longer what it was.

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I am interested in climate change and other topics too. But this thing is so huge, in the worst case we are talking about the end of our civilization.

Civilization

Talking

Topics

If we do our homework right, never again should an asteroid that can do damage on the ground impact the Earth. We’re living in a time-with our technology-we have the capability to eliminate that major shaper of evolution . . . the evolution of life on this planet.

Future

Impact

Technology

In the short term, some deadly virus might be more important, but in the long run there is hardly anything more important than asteroids.

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Long

Running

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Quotes by Rusty Schweickart

Rusty Schweickart

An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.

Anytime we can save lives or prevent the destruction of property, we should do it.

Asteroids have hit the Earth millions of times. We can see them as shooting stars every night. When they get bigger, things get complicated. It is only a matter of time until a big one hits us. And since we can do something about it, we should.

By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part.

For the first time in history, we have the chance to change the path of a celestial body. Let’s realize what we’re talking about here. We would be slightly changing the mechanics of our solar system to enhance our survival. That is gigantic!

I am interested in climate change and other topics too. But this thing is so huge, in the worst case we are talking about the end of our civilization.

If we do our homework right, never again should an asteroid that can do damage on the ground impact the Earth. We’re living in a time-with our technology-we have the capability to eliminate that major shaper of evolution . . . the evolution of life on this planet.

In the short term, some deadly virus might be more important, but in the long run there is hardly anything more important than asteroids.

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