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You cannot study other planets without referring to Earth and without applying the techniques and the insights of Earth science. And you cannot really do a good job understanding the Earth without the insights from planetary exploration.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Applying Cannot Earth Exploration Good Good Job Insights Job Other Planetary Planets Really Referring Science Study Techniques Understanding Without You

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We're going to stop looking at Earth from orbit because we don't like what we are seeing and the conclusions that leads us to? That's nonsense.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Because Conclusions Earth Going Leads Like Looking Nonsense Orbit Seeing Stop Us

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If we gutted NASA Earth Science, it wouldn't be NOAA or some other agency that would take the lead. It would be the Chinese and the Europeans and the Japanese.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Agency Chinese Earth Europeans Japanese Lead Nasa Other Science Some Take Would

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I will defend the NASA Earth Science Division with everything I've got.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Defend Division Earth Everything Got Nasa Science Will

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There are other planets besides the Earth and Mars. I'd like to remind you that studying Venus is vital to understanding life elsewhere.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Besides Earth Elsewhere Life Like Mars Other Planets Remind Studying Understanding Venus Vital You

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I think a lot of people interested in space exploration tend to hear stories about the great missions, how they work technically, what we learned. But they don't really hear the story of what it takes to get a mission from scratch to the launch pad and into space.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: About Exploration Get Great Hear How Interested Launch Learned Lot Mission Missions Pad People Really Scratch Space Space Exploration Stories Story Takes Technically Tend Think Work I Think

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We're pretty sure there's plenty of organic material on Pluto. The atmosphere is largely methane, and in sunlight, methane builds organic molecules. We see reddish stuff on the surface that we think is organic material.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Atmosphere Builds Largely Material Molecules Organic Plenty Pluto Pretty See Stuff Sunlight Sure Surface Think

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What we should really be thinking about is what it would look like for a truly intelligent technological species to be interacting with their planet's atmosphere.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: About Atmosphere Intelligent Interacting Like Look Planet Really Should Species Technological Thinking Truly Would

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In order to have a decent chance to be a communicating species, you would have to learn to think and plan and act over time scales of a century or a millennium.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Act Century Chance Communicating Decent Learn Millennium Order Over Plan Scales Species Think Time Would You

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We have all this very clever technology and all these abilities to manipulate the world in all these ways, yet we are faced with the very real question of whether we can be sustainable on this planet - whether or not, in fact, we can endure.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Ability Clever Endure Faced Fact In Fact Manipulate Planet Question Real Sustainable Technology Very Ways Whether World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: Unknown

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