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John Byrne

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Joined: 11 May 2005
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Posted: 21 October 2026 at 3:41pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
AI, but worth it.

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Michael Penn
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Posted: 21 October 2026 at 4:02pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
"...most of us would rather feel good than be right..."

Ain't dat da troof...!?
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John Byrne

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Posted: 21 October 2026 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
Our utter unimportance in the Universe—and on this planet—is something that started to work itself into my brain in high school, as I began to grasp the sheer scale of it all.
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James Best
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Joined: 02 March 2014
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Posted: 22 October 2026 at 3:02pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
It's sad to think that Sagan passed away almost 30 years ago. But I'm afraid that if he was still alive that he would be shocked to see how the world has followed the dark paths that he warned us about.

Makes me want to go back and read "The Demon-Haunted World" again, just to see how spot-on he was about America's future.
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Brian Acuff
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Posted: 22 October 2026 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
Hail Sagan
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Jim Lynch
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Posted: 23 October 2026 at 2:45am | IP Logged | 6 post reply
In April my wife and I were at the Cliffs of Kilkee in western Ireland. I watched the waves come in and hit the breakwater… and I realized the ocean had been doing that for millions of years, and didn’t give a damn that anyone was there. No matter what we want to think, the earth doesn’t need us at all. 
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