"The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!"
Larry Niven, quoted by Arthur Clarke in interview
at space.com, 2001 ..."
http://www.spacequotes.com/
Have you ever sat down and seriously thought about how what one teacher who is in the class room for one semester to thirty or more years affects the world I have. I never met Isaac Asimov. I actually thought he was something of an arrogant pompous *** when he was on TV in the mid 1970's, but now I understand to a certain why he was justified in acting like that, and why I felt that way. When you realize what other people's opinions of you may be really doesn't matter, that can be very liberating. You may never know how something you did might effect the life or some one else, but the effect can be life changing for a few to many people, even when you die at a relatively young age. When you die your body is gone, but you live on in the memories of the people whose lives you touched. It's another example of the Butterfly effect drastically changing the course or creation of a hurricane that causes tens to hundreds of millions dollars physical damage AND psychological damage/trauma? How many people left New Orleans during and after Katrina? Some even move back to New Orleans for awhile, only to decide to leave New Orleans permanently a few years later.
"...Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person on Earth, so that a chain of, "a friend of a friend" statements can be made, on average, to connect any two people in six steps or fewer. It was originally set out by Frigyes Karinthy and popularized by a play written by John Guare. ..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees…