Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Re: Eugenics [John Derbyshire]
Andrew: Yes, science has a way of dumping babies on our doorstep, doesn't it? We cope pretty well, though. We've coped with thermonuclear bombs (well, so far); we'll likely cope with bio-engineering. Let's keep our peckers up!
An ex-physicist friend of mine is much more worried—I mean worried; he goes on about it all the time—about the Large Hadron Collider, which becomes operational late this year.
From Wikipedia: "As with the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), people both inside and outside of the physics community have voiced concern that the LHC might trigger one of several theoretical disasters capable of destroying the Earth or even the entire Universe."
It's a comforting thought (sort of) that at any given point in time, we are probably worrying about the wrong things. Remember the Population Bomb...
01/03 02:36 PM
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