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"The killer app for nanotechnology, about twenty years away, is nanobots. Inside our bodies and brains, nanobots will provide radical life extension by destroying pathogens and cancer cells, repairing DNA errors, destroying toxins and debris, and otherwise reversing aging processes."
When I'm old, I'm gonna grow a chango clone, have my brain popped out and put into the new, young clone and use millions of nanobots to close off and reconstruct the blood vessels and nerves fast enough to keep my brain from dying. Then I'll live large for another hundred years or so.
Nanotechnology could prove to be the most incredibly cool scientific advancement yet.
Now common Kaye... why not be an optimist? Look what med-sci has already done for you? You wanna die under a tree somewhere from a bacterial infection that no-one even knew existed back 100 years ago? Or from the high incidence of gangrene absent the right procedures if you needed an amputation during The Civil War? Or even dental health? Sheesh.. even I remember those old belt-driven dentist's drills, which remind me now of my Dremel Tool with a coarse stone on it, working a steel file....GgrrrrrrrrGGggrrrrrrrr. Ouch!
What will be critical, I think, is a sub-routine in the 'bot's software of the "Cannot Do Harm" sort, preventing it from assembling a sort of disgruntled Bot Union Meeting in, say, your brain, and deciding to "...really Teach This Mook A Lesson! Let's Go Men!"
Ohhh ohhh... But hey, when has "science" ever let yah down? Huh?
I hate to be negative but if I had to look as though I do today I would just as soon be dead. Life is for the young and fortunate people who happen to be good looking. Unattractive people are looked at as trash.
I hate to be negative but if I had to look as though I do today I would just as soon be dead. Life is for the young and fortunate people who happen to be good looking. Unattractive people are looked at as trash.
Montana, you need to look deeper at yourself, or move to a more liberal State which will improve you outlook on life. I have always been told age is a state of mind, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I aim to live with that view until my mind goes than it won’t matter anymore. I am not overjoyed with the age thing myself, but I know how to keep my mind young, and I am trying with the rest of my body, just having trouble with the midlife over expectations of what I can and can’t do.
Now common Kaye... why not be an optimist? Look what med-sci has already done for you? You wanna die under a tree somewhere from a bacterial infection that no-one even knew existed back 100 years ago? Or from the high incidence of gangrene absent the right procedures if you needed an amputation during The Civil War? Or even dental health? Sheesh.. even I remember those old belt-driven dentist's drills, which remind me now of my Dremel Tool with a coarse stone on it, working a steel file....GgrrrrrrrrGGggrrrrrrrr. Ouch!
What will be critical, I think, is a sub-routine in the 'bot's software of the "Cannot Do Harm" sort, preventing it from assembling a sort of disgruntled Bot Union Meeting in, say, your brain, and deciding to "...really Teach This Mook A Lesson! Let's Go Men!"
Ohhh ohhh... But hey, when has "science" ever let yah down? Huh?
Uh, somehow I think sarcasm escaped you.
Science isn't good or bad, btw, what people do with it is. For every good use of some scientific advancement there is a bad, and vice versa. I'm actually pretty optimistic, however, if I were pessimistic it'd be pessimism about people, not science itself.
Montana, you need to look deeper at yourself, or move to a more liberal State which will improve you outlook on life. I have always been told age is a state of mind, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I aim to live with that view until my mind goes than it won’t matter anymore. I am not overjoyed with the age thing myself, but I know how to keep my mind young, and I am trying with the rest of my body, just having trouble with the midlife over expectations of what I can and can’t do.
Naw, it's probably because it's winter in Montana. Poor guy... sitting alone in his little cabin up in the woods, surrounded by 10 feet of snow, howling wolves, a winter supply of jerky and a couple dozen guns....
On second thought... Montana guy, wanna trade lives?
Naw, it's probably because it's winter in Montana. Poor guy... sitting alone in his little cabin up in the woods, surrounded by 10 feet of snow, howling wolves, a winter supply of jerky and a couple dozen guns....
On second thought... Montana guy, wanna trade lives?
I'm from Montana but I haven't lived there for years. I've moved around alot and now I live in Nashville. My friends and family up there tell me it's freezing cold though.
My comment about my appearance is largely due to the fact that I had an accident trying to load a really heavy piece of plywood into the back of my truck. I lost control of it and tried to jump out of the way but it hit me in the back and smashed my face into my concrete driveway. It scraped me all up and totally destroyed my glasses which cost $400 to replace. It does look much better this morning and I did manage to finally get this plywood in the truck.
I'm from Montana but I haven't lived there for years. I've moved around alot and now I live in Nashville. My friends and family up there tell me it's freezing cold though.
My comment about my appearance is largely due to the fact that I had an accident trying to load a really heavy piece of plywood into the back of my truck. I lost control of it and tried to jump out of the way but it hit me in the back and smashed my face into my concrete driveway. It scraped me all up and totally destroyed my glasses which cost $400 to replace. It does look much better this morning and I did manage to finally get this plywood in the truck.
Well, I guess you can keep your life.. I don't wanna have my face bashed in. I hope you come out of it OK, though.
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