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Bob Thirsk, a Canadian astronaut orbiting in the International Space Station, has concluded that earth bears the scars of human destruction. He reached this conclusion by using something a bit less scientific than the scientific method -– his feelings.
Here’s how Reuters tells Thirsk’s tale:
Bob Thirsk, who is two months into a planned six-month stay aboard the station, said he is mostly in awe when he looks out the window, particularly at the sliver of atmosphere wrapped around the planet.
”It’s a very thin veil of atmosphere around the Earth that keeps us alive,” Thirsk said during an in-flight news conference. “Most of the time when I look out the window I’m in awe. But there are some effects of the human destruction of the Earth as well.”
”This is probably just a perception, but I just have the feeling that the glaciers are melting, the snow capping the mountains is less than it was 12 years ago when I saw it last time,” Thrisk said.
This is probably just a perception on our part, too:
Thirsk’s credibility is disappearing faster than the glaciers.
Source: Reuters
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I think he’s right, and I’ll tell you what’s also extremely odd. The helter skelter in my local park has gotten considerably smaller since I was a kid. I swear to God, I mean…..Obama, that when I was 5 it was about 10 times taller.
Anecdotal evidence for the win!
Just a thought…I wonder how much scarring of the earth his shuttle mission caused? Think of all the pollution that thing spewed, so he could go up into space and tell us we are hurting the earth.
Gosh darn it, couldn’t they use an electric space shuttle, or algae power or something?
Canada can’t launch a man into space. This man is not an astronaut . . . he is a tourist.
PS- What is his concern about the the atmo being to thin. The thicker the atmosphere the greater the greenhouse effect would supposedly be, just take a look a Venus.
Maybe Thirsk should act on his convictions and move to another planet.
Well, I have a feeling that most things on the Earth will take care of themselves. I feel that Earth is impacted more heavily by earthquakes and tsunamis, volcanoes and flooding than by anything man has done.
I get the feeling that mother nature is a crass bitch and owes nothing a living. Shes beautiful, shes generous, but slip up and ignore her and you will exist only in the fossil record….thats just a feeling I have.
How do YOU feel?
Why don’t they just leave him up in the space station?
y r yal acting ignorant