well, that would be my first suggestion for the Noble Price 'winner' playing puzzle with genoms to create artificial 'life'.
There IS A LINE separating man from the gods (whoever that may be...)
btw that's (been?) the original purpose of religion - to protect those mislead by their own 'superiority' from stupid action.
I don't mind him playing Russian Roulette with a .45 and his own head...
but not with what I consider my personal future... or rather... what's left of that
the 'internet' for sure wasn't invented by DARPA - 'they' only established the idea.
The concept is totally trivial and has been fully implemented in the mid 80s.
Not sure if you have the same proverb, but here it says that
'war is the father of all things'
D for defense in DARPA, and they did their homework - we're only experiencing NOW how well they did it
sorry Brain, science as you like to define it (and the way I'd second it immediately) is long dead
they are telling you bs, they've never been in control and they never will be
it's because they are human and not gods - it's that simple
remember Roentgen, great finding, and hundreds of thousands died from radiation
when they were clear about the worst side-effects, they said: now all is under control
I still remember that machine from schooldays, where shops x-rayed feet for convenience to 'proove' the new shoes were a perfect match. It was only such a, such a, small dose ... sure no harm
a FULL decade (or more ?) later 'they' found out that ANY dose of radiation will aggregate ove time.
Now the same persons forbid the machines they were so confident in before
well, never mind, we learned about it.
antibiotics are a great and (sometimes over-) welcome help.
but who of those smart 'scientists' thought about the consequences when massive amounts of that stuff were spread by water ?
If they DID KNOW (not that hard, as it's based on the most simple logic of eating and shitting), then why was it ever allowed to apply those drugs as 'fat boosters' in agriculture.
Whatever it was - would you consider the situation as 'under control' at any time ?
now they have severe problems in health care - but don't really talk about it.
it's not cancer or a cardiovascular event that's (statistically) most likely to terminate your life...
in fact it's a plain, simple infection - a sepsis, caused by bacteria which are immune to treatment, nurtured by 'scientifically' tolerated drug abuse.
I don't consider true science a bad thing at all, but my personal estimation is that 95% of those employed und that label aren't even capable to THINK strictly scientific.
Which means that the majority in that domain handles stuff way beyond their mental capabilities.
Rather expect corruption, gread and sick ambition to power and overselfishness than moral.
I read scientific literature since I was a schoolboy (skateboards weren't invented yet, so I filled my time with astronomy, geology, paleontology, biology, chemistry, archeology, astrophysics, all that sh*t...).
Later I've worked with leading edge medical technology, so you may assume I at least got an idea what I'm writing about.
cheers, Tom
