Brian Cox
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard 16 Jun
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Because a normal person's timeline, if I look at your timeline, you look at mine, some of it's just silly stuff. Some of it's retweeting sports stuff or science stuff or whatever it is. I like aeroplanes, so a lot of my stuff is retweeting stuff about aeroplanes, right? Or whatever it is. So I think you can see a real person by seeing a breadth in the things that they retweet or whatever.
And so I tend to ignore and mute at the minimum the people who are just single issue. And usually what you find, by the way, is that. They're not a single issue. I can just about understand it if someone's single issue focused on a single thing. But they're just a generic kind of political position. So you'll see an account and all it does is promote divisive issues.
You can see them a mile off, I think. So then it comes back to how do you deal with it? And my sense would be your sense. It's hard to legislate around conversation, isn't it? Yeah. So what do you do? I suppose you could argue it's education. Ultimately, ultimately, everything comes back to to education. A democracy requires an educated population. Right. And tools who have the mental tools.
to deal with this sort of new world of information.
Yeah. Yeah. Isn't it a big problem?
But we can be optimistic. Yes. Because we're both optimists, I think, ultimately. Yes, I'm very optimistic. Because of the things we've talked about today.
I do understand, though, that you and I, you know, we're in a good position, Mike, personally. Yes. As we have a, you know, this confidence comes with some degree of success and you can put things in perspective. And as you said, you know, when, if you're, I often think, actually, I see people who struggle financially. When they become well-known for the first time, for example.
I mean, I remember when I became quite late in life, became well-known as a public figure. I did a series on the BBC in 2009 or 2010 called Wonders of the Solar System. And suddenly I was well-known. And I find it very difficult to navigate. And fortunately, I had the support structures and people around me and I could navigate it and you come to terms with it and you learn how to do it.
But it's a process, isn't it? So I think it's the same. One of the problems, I think, with social media is you can become very well known. Very quickly.
Often for something that you kind of said in a clumsy way. Sometimes, you know, it can.
And I think it's probably almost impossible to navigate that as just a person who just suddenly is exposed to that glare of publicity and becomes a public figure. Yeah. Sometimes a hate figure. Yes. Overnight.
Yeah. And it wasn't in a controversial area. It's about planets and the solar system, astronomy. So but even then, I found it difficult initially to navigate through that world. Yes. And you get used to it eventually.
I do, yeah, there's still, I mean, the number of people who, when I, so I did that, the rocket catch, right? The starship, as you said, the most incredible thing. I just retweeted that and said, brilliant engineering. The number of tweets I got back saying that space is, I don't understand what it means. Space is fake. I don't even know what that means. But I got quite a lot of it.
You know, it's fake.
Oh, it's that.
I love this. You go, okay, so let's assume that's true. Let's assume he's right.
But the thing I've never understood, and I've asked this in my early days on Twitter. I made the mistake of asking, you know, sometimes. Now I don't reply at all. Obviously, you learn that. I go, what possible advantage could there be? Right. What's the answer? I think they think that it's just a scam. So, yeah, SpaceX are just like a scam or something.
So they're just taking all this money for launching satellites. So, again, it's a very complicated scam because they're getting it off, you know, communications satellites. They should try Starlink.
Look at the sky. The fundamental thing as well, the fundamental misconception these people have is they assume that there's a competence...
there in government you know anyone who's interacted with government i speak of my own country i've interacted with the government the idea that they're competent enough to do this right tremendously intricate scam they can't even in my country they can't even make the trains run right it's very basic that so i think that is this assumption that there's some kind of
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