As a scientist, I don't believe that there should a ban on stem cell research. I was simply pointing out other controversies that meet with great debate currently and I believe that the merging of IT and biology will meet with political and moral barriers that most futurists don't think about.
I also disagree that public opinion is what the loudest pressure group believe, but rather a mixture of all viewpoints comingled.
It's clear what futurists are up to: P. T. Barnum-style showmanship. They are popularizing a very important concept-the fact that medicine, with the decoding of the human genome, has become a matter of information technology. The circus act is a goofy distraction, for the most part.
The problem with singularity is that of an ethicial question.
The courtship of IT and biology would be preceded by too many backseat bumblings with which public opinion would not tolerate. A secondary problem of politics is introduced. With divided opinion on stem cell research, cloning and abortion, turning humans into cyborgs will certainly meet resistance.
"Frankenstein" is not so much a cautionary tale about science as it is an explication of man's fall from grace as a consequence of overarching ambition. Shelley illustrates this with references to Western literature's two great examples: Adam and Eve's ouster from the Garden of Eden in the Bible and Satan's fall from the ranks of the archangels in John Milton's "Paradise Lost." Strictly on a literary level, these stories are compelling, especially the story of the Garden, as it illuminates the brilliant but naive Frankenstein's crossing the line that can't be crossed."
heat capacitance is the ability of a substance to absorb heat. Liquid nitrogen which has a low heat capacitance tends to boil quickly and provide poor cooling because the liquid phase isn't really contacting the cooling surface the vapor phase is (which is signifigantly warmer). This is why you can stick your hand in it for short periods of time and come out unscathed. Liquid propane has a much higher heat capactiance which will absorb heat much better than ln2.
If you want me to pull out my merck manual and look up the numbers for you i will.
as for the "fun" liquid propane experiment, i've done it (for work)
Like i said before bfd. Until someone can come up with a practical way of running at 6.0 ghz i'm just gonna say YAWN.
And btw I think your mothers basement counts as an enclosed space!
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opps! urm i mean windows
this is an interesting idea
this i a great summary bravo!
redhat won't die
just don't invent anything and you will have no spies
they have gone to far here
mind the lamp
open source is the future
amazon has made usps rich
I think blackboard is cool
dates as numbers are interesting
look at me i'm invisible
As a scientist, I don't believe that there should a ban on stem cell research. I was simply pointing out other controversies that meet with great debate currently and I believe that the merging of IT and biology will meet with political and moral barriers that most futurists don't think about.
I also disagree that public opinion is what the loudest pressure group believe, but rather a mixture of all viewpoints comingled.
To paraphrase Rick Mullin:
It's clear what futurists are up to: P. T. Barnum-style showmanship. They are popularizing a very important concept-the fact that medicine, with the decoding of the human genome, has become a matter of information technology. The circus act is a goofy distraction, for the most part.
I would reference a quote by Rick Mullin from his article Frankenstein At The Circus
If you zoom all the way in at moon.google.com you can see what the moon is really made of (try it!)
PHEV? More like PHEW when you finally make it up a steep hill
So long and thanks for all the fish...... Seriously thought this guy was a comic genius and deserves this. Don't forget your towel
... Bill Gates has admitted that, "Google kicked our butt" in Internet search.
Gee Bill, you think?
So that's what all these "enhancement" emails I've been getting are about.
Twwwwinnnssss!!!!
Am I the only one who thought of this when they saw this article? Sco being the flying fish of course.
Recipe for Linux Step 1: Download and Burn Knoppix Step 2: Reboot from CD Step 3: ?????? Step 4: Profit!!!!
Looks like Microsoft finally caught on to the what the modders were doing. You know what they say, better late then never.
One more reason not to look at that goatse picture!
heat capacitance is the ability of a substance to absorb heat. Liquid nitrogen which has a low heat capacitance tends to boil quickly and provide poor cooling because the liquid phase isn't really contacting the cooling surface the vapor phase is (which is signifigantly warmer). This is why you can stick your hand in it for short periods of time and come out unscathed. Liquid propane has a much higher heat capactiance which will absorb heat much better than ln2. If you want me to pull out my merck manual and look up the numbers for you i will. as for the "fun" liquid propane experiment, i've done it (for work) Like i said before bfd. Until someone can come up with a practical way of running at 6.0 ghz i'm just gonna say YAWN. And btw I think your mothers basement counts as an enclosed space!