(04-11-2016, 02:18 PM)IceWizard Wrote: I have to agree Fire... It is a terrible problem and one I hate to even see... To watch one suffer as they do and continue to go downhill... Makes me want to just ball my eyes out...
With all our technilogical(sp) advances we are making in this old world, we should be able to wipe out some of these deblitating problems of ours completely out of existance...
But no... We're to concerned on getting to pluto for Gods sake... By curing all this, we'd put a damper on health costs... Then what would all those high dollar docs do...
Just sayin...
Ice
Agree totally Ice. NASA and explorations to distant "planets" in our little teeny system . . . I didn't even know money was being spent there by the government. All that's based on what now is an archaic idea we were "going somewhere". Well know SciFi writer and respected "futurist" Arthur C. Clarke--"Childhood's End"--was a strong proponent for the idea of suspending money on space exploration. The idea was a political football for a time as we raced the Russians to the moon. That has, thankfully, abated. Generational travel, cryonic suspension, following black holes as shortcuts, "rabbit holes" to far places in the curve of the universe; all are still fantasy. Spending money in that direction as opposed to spending it on research on "real" planetary problems and diseases should be a clear choice at this point. We ain't going anywhere. It's a nice dream that dominated the SciFi of the 50s and 60s. We know better now.Â
As Clarke made clear in "Childhoo's End", going anywhere would amount to a profound change in human makeup, and help from friends from "out there" who would defy our understanding. Not a buck on space travel, spend it on Parkinson's and pets. Spend it on something real. They don't call it "space" for nothing.  Good posts both.
The Spankster