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 Madtowntripper
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 Re: Wohoo! The Large Hadron Collider Is Almost Online! [Re: TheWallpf]
#8417966 - 05/18/08 08:15 PM (6 months, 14 days ago) |
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Humans have never been able to ethically use any technology.
Rest assured, as soon as some caveman learned how to sharpen a stick he was plotting how to stab someone with it.
Every new invention has possibilities within it to do both good and ill. You can't have one w/out the other.
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Nephlyte
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Re: Wohoo! The Large Hadron Collider Is Almost Online! [Re: TheWallpf]
#8421097 - 05/19/08 06:06 PM (6 months, 13 days ago) |
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Quote:
TheWallpf said:
Technology is advancing much faster than the humans ability to correctly, ethically, and safely put to use our inventions. i.e splitting the atom
I don't know. I think we're doing pretty good. We've only used the bomb twice against people and that was right at the beginning of splitting the atom.
Since then we've been creating very clean, efficient energy with the technology. We have also used it to discovery many new things about sub atomic particles. Additionally we quickly figured out how to precisely split the atom, so we don't have nukes going off everytime some scientist looks at sub-atomic particles.
We also did some cock(bomb) measuring contests for a while, but now countries are working together to dismantle the mistakes of our fathers.
So all in all, i think humans don't get the credit they deserve for wielding ridiculously dangerous science safely.
Edit: Although the point about spears is true.
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"To do right is to know what you want. Now when you are dissatisfied with yourself it's because you are after something you don't really want. What objects are you proposing to yourself? Are they the objects you really value? If they are not, you are cheating yourself. I don't meant that if you chose to pursue the objects you most value, you will attain them; of course not. Your experience will tell you that. But success in getting after much labor what you really don't care for is the bitterest and most ridiculous failure." -George Santayana
Edited by Nephlyte (05/19/08 06:07 PM)
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DieCommie
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Re: Wohoo! The Large Hadron Collider Is Almost Online! [Re: Nephlyte]
#8421255 - 05/19/08 06:40 PM (6 months, 13 days ago) |
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So the early human didnt have a target to kill first, and then figure out how to make the spear?
The needs drives development, both evolutionarily and technologically. And historically the need of war, self defense and offense is what has driven scientific development and engineering. The most technologically advanced cultures in history were militaristic and warring (I cant think of a counter example). Individual humans may be compelled by pure thought and discovery, but human societies fund research for armies/war.
When the need for war and self defense/offense wanes, so too will resources and time put into scientific research and development. Can our curiosity alone keep development in science going when the need from life and death struggle no longer exists? Will the average human continue to contribute to the huge amount of resources needed for further research without the fear of rape and pillage driving him? I think so. Im sure most people here in the forum think so too. Humans can pursue research with a sole intent of discovery. However, there is no historical precedent for it.
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Behold yon miserable creature. That Point is a Being like ourselves, but confined to the non-dimensional Gulf. He is himself his own World, his own Universe; of any other than himself he can form no conception; he knows not Length, nor Breadth, nor Height, for he has had no experience of them; he has no cognizance even of the number Two; nor has he a thought of Plurality; for he is himself his One and All, being really Nothing. Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn his lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.
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