The biologist Edward O.Wilson has spent his life studying the curiously ordered worlds of several species of invertebrates, ants and termites. It seems that rather more than 100 million years ago, these creatures roamed around as individuals, or in small groups. Coexisting withthem were the flying invertebrates, the ancestors ofhornets, wasps and bees of all kinds, large and small, also mostly as individuals. As time passed, most of these formed nested communities, some of them so well organized that the nest itself appeared to have an independent physiology. Thus bees’ nests in Canada have been shown to maintain an internal environment at 35°C when the outside was well below 0°C. (查看原文)
The pioneer and would-be spacefarer Elon Musk has said he would like to die on Mars, though not on impact. Martian conditions suggest death on impact might be preferable.
Perhaps Mars could provide hermit cells for the ultra-rich who might spend half their fortunes on voluntarily travelling there. Whatever cash was left could be spent on building and maintaining a tiny capsule of life from which escape would be impossible. It would actually be far less cruel to allow them to build their prison cells on the ice cap of Antarctica. At least the air is breathable. (查看原文)
#Future-minded. The book defines the age we are at right now as Anthropocene—the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies—is, coming to an end. A new age—the Novacene, when solar energy is transformed into information—has already begu...
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0 有用 鳏螤溟 2023-03-01 09:50:42 广东
我不确定我算不算读完了……
0 有用 鱼啦啦啦啦啦 2023-05-20 09:42:00 福建
“也许我们希冀，在智慧和认知从地球向外扩散遍及宇宙时，我们曾经的贡献不会被完全遗忘”
0 有用 未来的拉美老登 2023-11-10 03:19:46 上海
“尽管我的论点是，为了生物圈的正常运行，我们双方（人类和赛博格）都需要保持地球足够凉爽。” 还是这种科学畅想式的不受学科规范限制的文章看得爽，扯东扯西，未来可期。保卫盖娅，碳硅（双基）有责。
1 有用 半个假蕃人 2022-08-23 16:27:29 四川
本来是期望着看老爷子如何痛骂并预言全球变暖的灾难后果，以及期待一种科学世界末日以及末日中的希望的描述。结果Jim只是怀抱下来自毁倾向，告诉我，没关系，如果我们是宇宙诞生出来自我理解的生物，那么我们已经到了该谢幕的时候，赛博格会照顾好盖娅的，可能真的得活100多岁的老神仙才这么乐观和希望吧
0 有用 Bravo 2022-03-30 00:02:17
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