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Holy Crap Guys: or, How We Will All Be Cyborgs By 2030
RedLion:
--- Quote from: ViolentDove on 16 Jul 2008, 00:27 ---
Stem cell research is legal in the U.S.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying.
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No, there's still heavy restrictions placed on it.
WriterofAllWrongs:
--- Quote from: Something Witty on 21 Jul 2008, 22:01 ---
Sir, I dispute your sentiment. Why? Fucking robot arms.
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This reminds me of a question a friend asked me once.
If offered half of a billion dollars, would you lose your legs?
jhocking:
--- Quote from: Patatat on 15 Jul 2008, 18:03 ---Well, I am a shape shifting lizard-creature.
:-D <---me
:-( <----you
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I approve of this use of smilies.
--- Quote from: Sox on 15 Jul 2008, 13:38 ---Our organs and body parts work just fine. There's no reason to replace them.
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No need to replace them.
A Wet Helmet:
I'm entirely too lazy to look up the actual survey right now, so I'm not even going to attempt to make up statistics but:
In 1949 a survey was put out that asked people what they believed the likelihood of several 'predictions of the future'. Essentially they were asked what they thought the world would be like 50 years in the future as we prepared to enter the 21st century. The vast majority of respondents believed that by 1 January 2000 there would be a cure for cancer. All of it.... cured. Almost nobody thought there was a chance in hell that we'd put a man on the moon.
Anybody a shooter? If your aim is just a fraction of an inch off when you're sighting your target, at 300 meters, you're missing by several feet. Simple geometry of angles.
The same is true when you try to predict the future. It's probably safe for me to predict that tomorrow gas will still be around four bucks a gallon. There is plenty of historical trending data to support it, and very few things that could happen in the next 24 hours that would radically alter the price of gas. If you ask me what the price of gas will be this time next year... Now there are more variables to take into account and my speculation is more prone to error. I can still data-mine for trends, but the likelihood of unaccounted for variables increase as time goes on. Ask me what it will be like in 2030 and I'm basically just taking a wild ass guess. That's essentially what these guys are doing. Looking at a short term trend and extrapolating it way beyond a reasonable time frame. Sure, some of it may end up proving to be true because it follows the next logical step in technological evolution, but I'm not laying any money today on what technology is going to do for us in 2030... Know what I mean?
Something Witty:
--- Quote from: WriterofAllWrongs on 22 Jul 2008, 00:56 ---
--- Quote from: Something Witty on 21 Jul 2008, 22:01 ---
Sir, I dispute your sentiment. Why? Fucking robot arms.
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This reminds me of a question a friend asked me once.
If offered half of a billion dollars, would you lose your legs?
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Only if I got new robot legs.
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