Polety voobrazheniya
Richard Dawkins
Unabridged
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9785171434526
4 hours 47 minutes
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Polet, vozdushnaya stihiya — mechta i tsel, kotoraya gipnotizirovala cheloveka na protyazhenii tysyacheletiy. Zemnaya gravitatsiya — surovaya realnost, kotoraya protivostoit etoy mechte i kotoruyu neizbezhno uchityvaet i priroda. Evolyutsiya podhodila k poletu ratsionalno: esli dlya tseley sohraneniya vida nuzhno letat, sredstva dlya etogo nepremenno poyavyatsya, dazhe esli dlya etogo potrebuyutsya milliony let. Chelovek, v svoyu ochered, pridumal mnozhestvo sposobov podnyatsya v vozduh i peremeschatsya na bolshie rasstoyaniya: ot krylev mifologicheskogo Ikara do samoleta byl proyden bolshoy put blagodarya tomu, chto vo vse vremena est lyudi, sposobnye v svoem voobrazhenii vzletet vvys, dazhe ostavayas na zemle. Imenno oni nakaplivayut znaniya, otkryvayut novoe i vedut za soboy: 'Byt mozhet, ta zhe tyaga k priklyucheniyam, kotoraya oburevala polineziytsev, otkryvavshih novye ostrova, i segodnya zhivet v tom «zove prostranstva», kotoryy pobuzhdaet predstaviteley nashego vida kolonizirovat Mars — i, vozmozhno, v dalekom buduschem dobratsya i do zvezd?'