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I did think that it'd be truly cool to be a foreign correspondent, and it was. There is a degree of freedom - and the right to roam the earth on somebody else's nickel.

~David E. Sanger

Topics: Cool Correspondent Degree Did Earth Else Foreign Freedom Nickel Right Roam Somebody Think Truly

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Titan has rivers and lakes of liquid methane and ethane, methane weather systems of clouds and storms that mirror Earth's hydrologic cycle, and seasonal cycles that rival Earth's in complexity.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Clouds Complexity Cycle Cycles Earth Lakes Liquid Mirror Rival Rivers Storms Systems Weather

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There was a long history of people believing there was life on Venus. It was about the same size as Earth. It had clouds. It was commonly believed it was tropical - wet, hot and steamy.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: About Believed Believing Clouds Commonly Earth Had History Hot Life Long Long History People Same Size Tropical Venus Wet

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It is said that Mahatma Gandhi, when asked about Western civilization, remarked, 'I think it would be a good idea.' That's how I feel about intelligent life on Earth, especially when I think about the question of what truly intelligent life might look like elsewhere in the universe.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: About Asked Civilization Earth Elsewhere Feel Gandhi Good Good Idea How Idea Intelligent Intelligent Life Life Like Look Might Question Said Think Truly Universe Western Western Civilization Would I Think I Feel

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As Earth's climate changes, we can expect more destructive hurricanes. As sea level and surface temperatures rise, more solar energy is trapped in the atmosphere, revving up the hydrological cycle of evaporation and precipitation and sometimes manifesting in terrifying storms.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Atmosphere Changes Climate Cycle Destructive Earth Energy Expect Hurricanes Level More Rise Sea Solar Sometimes Storms Surface Temperatures Terrifying Trapped Up

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Whenever I see a nighttime picture of Earth from space, with its glowing lights, I am stirred by its beauty.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Am Beauty Earth Glowing Lights Nighttime Picture See Space Stirred Whenever I Am I See

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I don't see it as coincidence that the great acceleration of the Anthropocene influences on Earth came during the same decades as our first exploration of the other planets.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Acceleration Came Coincidence Decades Earth Exploration First Great Influences Other Our Planets Same See

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Earth is going to lose its oceans in the future, just as Venus did in the past. How long planets retain their oceans is a function of distance from the sun, all other things being equal.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Being Did Distance Earth Equal Function Future Going How In The Past Just Long Lose Oceans Other Past Planets Retain Sun Things Venus

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Mars does not have an atmosphere and does not have a magnetic field today, so the planet doesn't have the protection from radiation that our atmosphere and magnetic fields provide us on Earth.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Atmosphere Does Earth Field Fields Magnetic Mars Our Planet Protection Provide Radiation Today Us

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What I wonder most about the Anthropocene is not when did it start - but when, and how, will it end? Will it end? Or is it possible that our own growing awareness of our role on Earth can itself play a pivotal role in shaping the outcome toward one that we would desire?

~David Grinspoon

Topics: About Awareness Desire Did Earth End Growing How Itself Most Our Outcome Own Pivotal Play Possible Role Shaping Start Toward Will Wonder Would I Wonder

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