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James Lovelock at 100: The creator of Gaia theory on humanity's future | |
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2019-07-24 | |
发布年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 国际 |
领域 | 地球科学 |
正文(英文) | JAMES LOVELOCK turns 100 this July. One of the most influential scientists of our time, he worked for the British government during the second world war and later for NASA on the Mars Viking mission. It was then that he was inspired to develop the Gaia hypothesis, the idea that Earth is a massively interconnected, self-regulating system. His new book, Novacene: The coming age of hyperintelligence, argues that the Anthropocene era of human influence over the planet is coming to an end and that an age of superintelligent beings is about to begin. Thanks for the coffee and, er, the saucer of ice… That’s to make it drinkable. A chunk of ice cools the coffee 80 times more effectively than the equivalent volume of water at 0 degrees.
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/136389 |
专题 | 地球科学 |
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