Yeah and I don’t even understand why humanity should establish a law at all….

About this thread, I don’t easily believe on sea monsters or prehistoric gargantuan turtles & dolphins that still swim on the depths of the ocean. Just like the Loch Ness monster for instance…..No one could ever proved that it was a real Plesiosaur….

Giant Squids are the only giants that have been found aside from Mobydick…

BTW, I can’t see Alpha Commando clearly…..and L-W looks like he’s about to launch a harpoon on the giant squid.

Perhaps I misrepresented what I was trying to say. I’m well aware of the roots of Genetics and all the applications as well as many of the different fields of science as well as the Teir like structure of progress.

I wasn’t trying to take a stab at scientific progress or research, rather my problem is with the average Joe, not the scientific elect. Consider our much North American civilization wastes in terms of exhaust emissions, garbage, and even simply how much food is consumed. Most people don’t ever bother to ask ‘Is this the best thing to do?’ or ‘How will all this waste affect my children?’. (I commonly refer to North America because Canada is guilty of many of the same sins, and being Canadian, I can’t say ‘Us’ when I don’t live in the USA). Take a look at the obesity levels. Slovenly decadence is what it is. A society built around the ‘want’ and expects to be hand fed, and then complains when they can’t cope with what’s been given. I read a Time magazine article a few months ago about how the recent Economy crash is the best thing that could have ever happened to the USA. It’s a slap in the face, a ‘Get your ass in gear!’.

Like never before Mankind has the power to change the very face of our planet, and people need to start understanding that. We need to start saying ‘This may be good for me, but it’s bad for everyone else, so maybe I shouldn’t do it.’ as opposed to ‘I want this, so I’m going to take it, regardless of who it harms in doing so.’ But people are set in their ways, so nothing is going to change unless a major cataclysm occurs and drastically reduces the human population as well as totally demolishing the current world infastructure. If that doesn’t happen, mankind is going to be subject to the two things I suggested up in post #6.

As a side note, I’m well aware of North America not being the only part of the world that is guilty of this, in-fact, most of the “Developed” countries are.

@Mata “The human’s capacity for destruction inficted upon one another is pretty impressive.”

Specially when we have access to toys like Nukes.

While possible that an outside cosmic element could indeed be our doom (minus the naive “god destroys the governing powers of evil”), it is far more likely that we bring about our own end. The human’s capacity for destruction inficted upon one another is pretty impressive.

oh and i looked up apocalypse in google

i typed in define apocalypse and the first result was….a cosmic cataclysm where god destroys the governing powers of evil….so really no need to be afraid unless ur evil

All technology as we know it works on a baseline, which is then supported by the technologies that preceded it. No one avenue of research can be considered useless because even relatively minor or even accidental results can produce some interesting new material. We may think of a Fighter Jet as single piece of technology, but for us to build the Jet we have to have a complex understanding of multiple fields of study; such as analytical chemistry, electrochemistry, polymer chemistry, thermochemistry, polymer physics, acoustics, computational physics, astrodynamics, climatology, programming languages, aeronautics etc. This is just the tip of the iceberg I’m afraid. There are over twenty defined scientific fields in existence, each one composed of over forty sub-categories on average, each sub-category has several dozen dedicated fields of research which can range from decades to centuries of continuous work by hundreds of individuals. It has taken centuries of continuous R&D to arrive at a jet engine, which is only one of the countless technologies that form the fabric of modern life.

The fact is that we are researching a means of reducing global warming, we are trying to cure cancer, we are trying to curb overpopulation and pollution; unfortunately these issues have deep cultural, religious and economical roots that stem back thousands of years, and cannot simply be cured overnight with a quick fix solution. Science does not and should never work like that, it’s a process that takes thousands of years of continuous grinding, and to deem any one avenue as wasteful simply because it projects no immediately useful results is naught but short-sighted.

The modern scientific method is right up there with language and mathematics as one of the greatest intellectual achievements of mankind. In just a few short centuries of use, it has accomplished more to improve peoples’ lives than religion did in the previous few millennia.