Comments by "the other Andrew" (@theotherandrew5540) on "DW Documentary" channel.

After living for 15 years in a culture where hugging was the normal greeting, I returned to the UK. I desperately miss it.
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@ronald3836 You may well be right … but perhaps other more intelligent life forms have overcome the problems of space travel.
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@andrewmah5605 I think the old bird will be long gone to tapping angels on the shoulder before she gets round to me. Fortunately the British Empire only exists now in dusty history.
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Non of the problems of humanity will be resolved until the great god Maximum Profit is deposed.
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Much of this is true, of course, but it's a very biased view of Russia. There are very few closed cities. The west does it's secret jobs in a different way. Young people everywhere rebel against their parental generation. I lived in Russia for 15 years, and I saw the same attitudes in the young people as you describe, I also saw a country of truly remarkable prosperous development, cleaner cities, new roads, better reailways and public transport both much cheaper and superior to anything I've seen in western countries.
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In a universe where there are more stars than grains of sand on earth, the idea that we are alone is absurd, as is the idea that we are the supreme intelligence in the universe, or that other intelligent being would be hostile.
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Why would anyone want to spend time in an environment as hostile as Mars? Bonkers. If the aim is to mine it, surely it must be easier to do it remotely.
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@ronald3836 The air on Antarctics is breathable, there is water (frozen but accessible), the gravity is virtually the same as everywhere else on earth, the journey to be there takes just days and the temperatures rarely drop below -50 celcius (not -80) and there are penguins and birds for company. Mars offers no such comports.
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Access to water is not a human right. How can it be where the natural distribution of water is so very uneven? Equitable sharing of resources including water might be considered a right.
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@jimnickola7196 access to water and anything else is a CIVIL right, not a human right. Bring human does not bestow on us any right. Being (probably) the most intelligent animal, humans have responsibilities, not rights.
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@francismarion6400 Humans, like all other beings, have no RIGHTS.
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@jimnickola7196 Does a goat have a right to clean water? Does a pig or a misquote have a right to life?
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@jimnickola7196 Of course water should not be controlled or owned by corporations, but that is the right of a citizen, a civil right. Animals, birds, insects, reptiles, fish, have no “rights” by virtue of their being; nor do humans.
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@jimnickola7196 While I fundamentally disagree with the theft of water by corporations or anyone else taking more than their needs, it remains an inalienable fact that there are no such things as Human Rights or Animal Rights, simply by virtue of being. If we humans attend to out responsibilities, the issue of Rights disappears. In the Christian Bible, “man has dominion over the animals.” But in the Muslim Quran, “man has responsibility for the animals.”
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The unionist arguments are all out of the Tory playbook. Brexit is what has reignited independence, along the utterly crass corrupt Tory Westminster administration. A federation of Britain might work, but it requires MUTUAL RESPECT, not domination by the big guy.
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