2015 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Water, Water

I really appreciate Neil's strict attention to language in order to keep pre-suppositions out of the descriptive language of science.

WOW. Great panel. Neil is covering all of the major issues of our time with these wonderful Isaac Asimov Debates! It was a profound awakening as well, to the overall situation on the humanity, and really put it into the light, like what Neil said in Cosmos. On the last second of the last day of the cosmic year, humanity started using the scientific method, and went from Galileo gazing through a telescope, to putting humans on the moon. But how did we get this far without a basic water system figured out? Humanity didn't even get their water situation sorted out after all this time. All humans living on less than half a percent of all the drinkable water there is. It really is such a young species.

Mr. Asimov would be proud. Keep up these fine additions to the world wide web.

29:48 the way Neil looked at the camera made me laugh

i love how there is a hole panel of greats up there but can't work out mic's . Gold. it goes to show everyone has their place and use and the way they handle it shows that there is no problems only solution's. They didn't miss a beat. I love this attitude.

This was great listening to. Fantastic to see well informed women who are in charge in their field discuss this subject

Wishing the great #AsimovDebates could be held **TWICE A YEAR EVERY YEAR!** TY to Janet Asimov and the others including NdGT, who make this great event possible! There are SO MANY more subjects that deserve this sort of discussion!

was great to experience in person for the first time! wish this could be 2x a yr too!

It was a fascinating talk.

My biggest take away from this panel discussion is that Neil Degrasse Tyson speaking off the cuff IS HILARIOUS.

@1:32:27 "The problem you have to worry about with climate change is that there is a zipper effect, you get down the road to far and you can't recover. So, for anybody in the world who thinks that climate change is a hoax—like a couple of our people in Washington [DC] do—that is almost immoral." —Gen. Charles Wald - U.S. Air Force, Retired

I can’t stop laughing 😂😂😂 while watching this. So awesome thak you very much 👍

Please, make an Isaac Asimov memorial debate about conscious artificial intelligence. He wrote much about robots, so this topic is really relevant. I personally would like to suggest inviting the following panelists: Roger Penrose, Stewart Hameroff, Marwin Minsky, Raymond Kurzweil, Amit Goswami. Please, this topic is really worth a debate!

They can put a man on the moon, but can't even get reliable microphones in any of these panel discussions.

Great to see women coming forward.

The numerous Isaac Asimov debates are a must-see collection of debates, discussions, and playful pioneering minds.

Love these panel discussions!

This is awesome! I'm watching all of them.

Having been influenced by growing up in an old town with no access to naturally available portable water, I'd recommend that buildings, especially large ones, be built with their own underground water run off storage facilities.  Whether they'd use stored water, collected from either roof tops or leveled areas, for the immediate surroundings or surrendered to the larger community they might be part off could be determined by demand.  Building gravity fed water storage areas into buildings is quite cheap if done as part of the construction process, at the very beginning and preferably in basements so as to occupy the least space possible

Phenomenal panel. Important topic.