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But if you look, you can see it at the door of your civilization.
Sure, if we get it wrong, we could face the end of this civilization, but if we get it right, it could be the beginning of civilization instead.
To my surprise, eliminating net CO2 emissions from the economy in just 20 years is actually pretty easy and pretty cheap, not very cheap, but certainly less than the cost of a collapsing civilization.
In millions of years, an intelligent alien civilization could easily have spread out across the galaxy, perhaps creating giant energy-harvesting artifacts or fleets of colonizing spaceships or glorious works of art that fill the night sky.
Maybe a single, superintelligent civilization has indeed taken over the galaxy and has imposed strict radio silence because it's paranoid of any potential competitors.
Maybe we are the first such civilization in our galaxy.
Or, perhaps civilization carries with it the seeds of its own destruction through the inability to control the technologies it creates.
Those fossil fuels have built our civilization.
And pretty much everything you're going to see in this game, there's an editor for that the player can create, up through civilization.
They might be bootstrapping life on planets, trying to terraform and spread civilization.
To be human is to learn, and to be part of a civilization is to share your knowledge.
Intent is a marker for civilization.
I've even heard politicians say that the gay lifestyle is a greater threat to civilization than terrorism.
Because I'm thinking, if I'm gay and I'm doing something that's going to destroy civilization, I need to figure out what this stuff is, and I need to stop doing it right now.
To understand and use it sanely, as a part of the civilization yet to evolve requires a vastly larger population of scientifically trained people like you.
Well, as it turns out, openness has a number of different meanings, and for each there's a corresponding principle for the transformation of civilization.
It's an age of vast promise, an age of collaboration, where the boundaries of our organizations are changing, of transparency, where sunlight is disinfecting civilization, an age of sharing and understanding the new power of the commons, and it's an age of empowerment and of freedom.
This ability, coupled with the cold darkness of space, points us to a future where we, as a civilization, might be able to more intelligently manage our thermal energy footprint at the very largest scales.
In many ways, this is a great success story of human civilization, of the agricultural surpluses that we set out to achieve 12,000 years ago.
Aging is considered one of the most familiar, yet the least well-understood, aspects of all of biology, and really, since the dawn of civilization, mankind has sought to avoid it.
So, I don't know how much civilization really has progressed since AD 79, but there's a great likelihood.
But there's a likelihood that we will confront a civilization that is more intelligent than our own.
The late physicist Gerard O'Neill said, "Advanced Western civilization has had a destructive effect on all primitive civilizations it has come in contact with, even in those cases where every attempt was made to protect and guard the primitive civilization."
If the aliens come visiting, we're the primitive civilization.
It'll also help us a lot, if we meet an advanced civilization along the way, if we're trying to be an advanced civilization.
Three thousand years ago, civilization just getting started on the banks of the Nile, some slaves, Jewish shepherds in this instance, smelling of sheep shit, I guess, proclaimed to the Pharaoh, sitting high on his throne, "We, your majesty-ness, are equal to you."
So if somebody really wanted to attack the United States or Western civilization these days, they're not going to do it with tanks.
We've got this giant fusion generator in the sky called the sun, and we just need to tap a little bit of that energy for purposes of human civilization.
The goal of SpaceX is to try to advance rocket technology, and in particular to try to crack a problem that I think is vital for humanity to become a space-faring civilization, which is to have a rapidly and fully reusable rocket.
CA: Would humanity become a space-faring civilization?
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