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David Grinspoon
American
Scientist
Born:
1959
Earth
Future
Life
Science
Think
You
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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
Great
First
Other
Our
Earth
See
Acceleration
Came
Decades
Same
Influences
Planets
Exploration
Coincidence
As a kid, I became a total SF geek. It started in the 5th grade with Asimov's 'Lucky Starr' series of what would now be called 'young adult' novels of adventures in the solar system.
David Grinspoon
Solar
Young
Solar System
Kid
System
Would
Geek
Total
Adult
Adventures
Became
Grade
Young Adult
Asimov
Lucky
Series
Novels
Now
Started
What if life is not carbon-based? Can life exist as a gas or a plasma? Could planets or stars in some sense be alive? What about an interstellar cloud? Could life exist on such a small or large scale, or move so fast or so slowly that we wouldn't recognize it? Could you have an intelligent virus?
David Grinspoon
Life
You
Sense
Cloud
Stars
Virus
Alive
Scale
Recognize
Some
Slowly
About
Small
Could
Exist
Intelligent
What If
Move
Planets
Large
Large-Scale
Fast
Gas
I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering.
David Grinspoon
Best
Community
Think
Thinking
Writers
Scientific
Doing
Discovering
Very
Aware
There's something cool about being involved in new missions to other planets.
David Grinspoon
Other
About
Something
New
Involved
Missions
Being
Planets
Cool
We can look out on an alien landscape that no one has seen before and find it beautiful.
David Grinspoon
Beautiful
Alien
Seen
Before
Out
Find
No-One
Look
Landscape
Astrobiology is a great point of contact for science outreach. The public is naturally interested in extra-terrestrial life. Astrobiology provides an accessible point of access that leads to deeper questions.
David Grinspoon
Life
Great
Science
Point
Outreach
Contact
Leads
Access
Accessible
Provides
Questions
Interested
Public
Naturally
Deeper
I intend to apply the perspective of astrobiology, which is a deep-time way of looking at life on Earth, towards the question of the Anthropocene. What does the human phenomenon on Earth look like viewed from an interplanetary perspective?
David Grinspoon
Life
Perspective
Looking
Earth
Way
Towards
Like
Look
Does
Question
Intend
Human
Which
Viewed
Apply
Phenomenon
It's OK to pursue speculative ideas because we don't want to be too cozy and safe and assume that we know everything about life in the universe. However, we have to be rigorous and careful and honest and logical and scientifically meticulous when we speculate.
David Grinspoon
Life
Logical
Universe
Assume
Too
Everything
OK
Rigorous
About
Pursue
Ideas
Know
Safe
Because
Scientifically
However
Meticulous
Cozy
Want
Speculate
Honest
Speculative
Careful
In environments that are energy-rich but liquid-poor, like near the surface of Titan, natural selection may favor organisms that use their metabolic heat to melt their own watering holes.
David Grinspoon
Natural
Own
Watering
Favor
Melt
Selection
Environments
Like
Surface
Heat
May
Holes
Natural Selection
Organisms
Use
Near
When I first went to college, I went into physics, and my goal was to help perfect nuclear fusion so I could solve the energy crisis and global warming. I probably would have done it, too, if I'd stuck to it.
David Grinspoon
Physics
College
First
Energy
Too
Crisis
Fusion
Would
Solve
Perfect
Could
Stuck
Global
Global Warming
Goal
Done
Warming
Help
Nuclear
The story of our species is one of overcoming existential risk through new forms of cooperation and innovation.
David Grinspoon
Innovation
Our
Risk
Through
New
Overcoming
New Forms
Existential
Story
Forms
Cooperation
Species
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
Work
Great
People
Space
Technically
Think
Launch
About
Tend
Takes
Mission
Missions
Learned
How
Hear
Lot
Get
Scratch
Space Exploration
Stories
Story
Interested
Pad
Really
Exploration
We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with future generations in the project of shaping it.
David Grinspoon
Future
World
Vision
Project
Collaborators
Ourselves
Future Generations
See
Shaping
Generations
Want
Create
Need
Whenever I see a nighttime picture of Earth from space, with its glowing lights, I am stirred by its beauty.
David Grinspoon
Space
Picture
Beauty
Nighttime
Earth
See
Lights
Am
Glowing
Stirred
Whenever
What I'm interested in is the conversations going on about the Anthropocene and what it means to view ourselves as a part of Earth's geological history.
David Grinspoon
History
Earth
Ourselves
About
Part
Geological
Going
Conversations
Interested
Means
View
We have to learn to become a new kind of entity on this world that has the maturity and the awareness to handle being a global species with the power to change our planet and use that power in a way that is conducive to the kind of global society we want to have.
David Grinspoon
Change
Maturity
World
Power
Become
Awareness
Society
Our
Way
Our Planet
Kind
Entity
New
Global
Learn
New Kind
Conducive
Handle
Being
Want
Planet
Use
Species
We don't know that Venus had oceans, but there's every reason to believe it did.
David Grinspoon
Believe
Every
Had
Know
Venus
Oceans
Did
Reason
I'm a strong advocate of new missions to Venus.
David Grinspoon
Strong
New
Missions
Venus
Advocate
As a young planet, Venus was losing hydrogen rapidly to space. The oceans boiled off, and after some period of time, perhaps 600 million years, there was no surface water.
David Grinspoon
Time
Water
Losing
Space
Young
Rapidly
Some
Hydrogen
Perhaps
Period
Venus
Surface
Oceans
Years
Off
After
Planet
Million
Million Years
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
Future
Long
Lose
Past
Other
Distance
Earth
Sun
Retain
Equal
Venus
How
Oceans
Did
Going
Just
Being
In The Past
Planets
Function
Things
I do comparative studies of climate evolution, and the interactions between planetary atmosphere and surfaces and their radiation environment, and try to understand the environmental factors that can affect a planet's habitability and how they change over time.
David Grinspoon
Environmental
Time
Change
Try
Evolution
Atmosphere
Factors
Studies
Environment
Between
Over
Understand
How
Climate
Affect
Interactions
Planet
Planetary
Radiation
Comparative
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
Will
Own
Awareness
Our
Earth
Possible
Would
Outcome
About
Shaping
Toward
Most
How
End
Itself
Wonder
Role
Did
Pivotal
Growing
Play
Start
Desire
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
Looking
Earth
Seeing
Leads
Like
Because
Conclusions
Nonsense
Going
Orbit
Stop
Us
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
Life
You
Understanding
Other
Elsewhere
Earth
Besides
Mars
Vital
Remind
Studying
Like
Venus
Planets
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
Thinking
Would
Atmosphere
About
Like
Look
Truly
Intelligent
Interacting
Planet
Really
Should
Species
Technological
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