"There's not a lot of optimism in history, it seems to me", ?

[Viking]

Really, how bad are people at tracking big rocks floating in space?

Space is a big place.

Space is really really really fucking huge and rocks capable of destroying the world are really really really small and fucking invisible.

[Syt]

Really, how bad are people at tracking big rocks floating in space?

Space is a big place.

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space, listen...

[Josquius]

I disagree with him.  The one consistent trend throughout history has been progress and improvement.

[Razgovory]

Really, how bad are people at tracking big rocks floating in space?

Space is a big place.

Space is really really really fucking huge and rocks capable of destroying the world are really really really small and fucking invisible.

Well I brought this up here once, but Neil was confidant that we would be able to spot meteoroid well before it came close to the Earth.

[garbon]

I disagree with him.  The one consistent trend throughout history has been progress and improvement.

We had that posed as a essay question at the end of my freshmen year (in the year long course I took that was a mix of Literature/Philosophy/History) and I said that I didn't think it was a history of progress. (As you had to pick one side or the other). I think I'd now I'd say progress but still wouldn't be particularly cheerful about the amount of progress that we've made.

[grumbler]

We had that posed as a essay question at the end of my freshmen year (in the year long course I took that was a mix of Literature/Philosophy/History) and I said that I didn't think it was a history of progress. (As you had to pick one side or the other). I think I'd now I'd say progress but still wouldn't be particularly cheerful about the amount of progress that we've made.

You could argue it either way, but I agree that progress is not impressive in many areas, especially in educating people to be more self-aware and empathetic.