User:MurrayScience

Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness, and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo...and it's worth fighting for.

Hi

I love Wikipedia. It's like taking a trip to a museum, you get to go down rabbit holes.

If I had more time and expertise, I would contribute more.

Barnstar

	Climate Change Barnstar
	For bravely joining the conversation to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Climate change topics, and connecting climate change to topics like Industrial processes. Keep up the good work, and hope to keep seeing you around WP:WikiProject Climate Change Sadads (talk) 21:02, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Meaningful quotes

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Festina lente
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Dum spiro spero
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Interesting places

Interesting human-society ideas

Technological Innovation for Climate Change Mitigation, (cement, steel, aluminum, and fertilizer production, also cargo shipping and airplanes, variable renewable energy, Generation IV reactor, carbon capture and storage, also fertilizer manure decomposition, and enteric fermentation, solar geoengineering research).
Prepare for a Tunguska event (2,150 sq km flattened, for reference, London is 1500 sq km).
Develop and have on standby mass-volume thermal cyclers.
Value added tax.
Negative income tax or universal basic income (more or less equivalent).
Pigovian taxes (including a carbon tax), also see the Pigou Club.
Condorcet method or Borda count (more or less equivalent), and no primaries.

Winners of the MurrayScience award

This is a (likely incomplete) list of modern intellectuals - listed in alphabetical order. I appreciate their society-relevant academic contributions, just as one might appreciate the cinematic contributions of various actors and directors. The people in this list have made substantial contributions to the public understanding of the world and they deserve an (extremely prestigious) award! I think Cicero is cool too but he's old.

Each winner's h-index (mostly from Dec-2020) is shown next to their name.