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While I watch things like this, I find myself asking, "and then what happens?"
Like this guy and a dude with a camera comes at you at some sound or fjord or something and says "excuse me, do you know how old the earth is? And you give them your hastily thought out answer because you want to get on your boat. He smiles and makes a cute comment about your answer and then says "It's actually 4.5 billion years old. The Earth is four and a half billion years old! Four and a half BILLION years." And you shift a little embarassedly, and respond "Wow! that IS pretty amazing! I was wayy off!"
And he's like "Yeah, check out my arms. let me describe it to you in the span of my arms how long there's been life on Earth, as opposed to human life! This is you, see my dirty fingernail? This is your lifespan. not the fingernail, oh god no, just the little shine on the ridge of the tip of my fingernail. No wait, not even that. If there's a microbe on that shine? that's your life." And he proceeds to show you. And you're like "Wow! Makes you think, huh!" The way the camera man stares at you is very off putting. You begin to wonder if the camera is really on.
His smile now taut and grim, the dude takes a few steps back, and shouts "Do you feel significant anymore?" And you say "excuse me?" And he repeats "DO YOU FEEL SIGNIFICANT, you fucking stupid overfed television cattle? How do you feel about what we're doing to the reefs now, assholes? How do you feel about what poisons we spill into the fishes? The toxic metals! How do you feel about the GIANT PLASTIC ISLAND NOW?" And you're like "What? Go away! I love animals! What?"
He then throws synthetic blood mixed with plankton at you.
aahaha
I like this Veritasium guy, but when Sagan did it he made you feel at once insignificant and significant. And I guess when I say you I mean me.
In the still shot of the video it looks like he's holding a gun to them.
The dude is a bit of a tool, but I like this new age of vigilante scientists. It's like The Inquisition of old, but with nerds. Or the guys who take offense that you didn't know the Dow dropped 11 points, or that the Dodgers won the [insert sport here]-bowl, or that some literary dude just wrote a new boring book, or that The Contemporary Museum just merged with The Academy of Arts.
HOW THE FUCK DO PEOPLE NOT KNOW OR CARE ABOUT THIS STUFF AND LIVE???
Actually Fugu, if you paid the scantiest scant amount of attention you'd know that the museums have not officially merged yet.
Ahem.
cough*mindless automaton of the man*cough
By The Way, I tried to watch that Sagan video but couldn't because I couldn't sit through the fucking sixteen second blackberry advertisement the preceded the video. What does that say about me exactly?
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