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What scientific or technological advance would you most like to see in your lifetime?
http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=453 ^ | William Briggs

Posted on 03/23/2009 4:06:04 AM PDT by mattstat

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1 posted on 03/23/2009 4:06:05 AM PDT by mattstat
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I don’t know about a future technology but one past technological advance that I am extremely glad about is running water, piped into the house and a system to carry the waste away.

Sure beats everything else, hands down!


2 posted on 03/23/2009 4:11:30 AM PDT by Jemian (PAM of JT ~~ Michael Steele is a craven squish. -Mark Steyne)
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Cheap fusion power. But I can't decide if we should closely guard the secret and really screw over every unfriendly nation or release the plans on the Internet so everybody could do it. Twenty years ago, I would go with the second, but these days, I am leaning towards the first, what with the Muslim Factor. Still, I suppose, if we did the second, it would collapse the oil market and make the bad guys goat herders again, so there is something to be said for both options.

Oh, followed by a FTL drive so we can get the hell off this rock. Maybe an oscillation overthruster.

3 posted on 03/23/2009 4:11:46 AM PDT by 50sDad (The mainstream media is the only watch dog that decides what it is going to bark at.)
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Star Wars blaster rifles and pistols, and anti-gravity drives.


4 posted on 03/23/2009 4:17:41 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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Better yet a dimensional door to millions of “other” Earths, find a nice vacant one and dump all the Muslims there.

And one for myself.


5 posted on 03/23/2009 4:19:30 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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A cheap, effective fat-burning pill with no side-effects.


6 posted on 03/23/2009 4:20:51 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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Immortality...


7 posted on 03/23/2009 4:21:35 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (In honor of my late father-Gysgt/Comm. Chief, USMC WWII, Korea 1925-2002)
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The antigravity button, that you just slap on your lapel and float around.

Rush hour in Tokyo will be hell until they straighten it out, though.

8 posted on 03/23/2009 4:22:18 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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Heck, I can tell you where that place is right now: Farmington, NM.


9 posted on 03/23/2009 4:23:12 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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A butter dish that does not allow the stick of butter to slide around, is easy to clean and allows for cutting off and removal of a pat with only one hand.


10 posted on 03/23/2009 4:36:10 AM PDT by Roccus (The Capitol, the White House, the Court house.....................America's Axis of Evil!)
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A room temperature, malleable superconductor would be nice.


11 posted on 03/23/2009 4:39:29 AM PDT by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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What scientific or technological advance would you most like to see in your lifetime?

Teleportation if they can guarantee that I won't turn into a fly.......

12 posted on 03/23/2009 4:46:32 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (This country isn't going to hell in a handbasket, it's riding shotgun on an Indy car....)
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Come back in a century, and there will be one self-proclaimed Imam with a gun to his head, threatening to shoot. All the others will have killed each other over what Allah wants you to have for breakfast.


13 posted on 03/23/2009 4:54:40 AM PDT by 50sDad (The mainstream media is the only watch dog that decides what it is going to bark at.)
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Only if I get a parallel Earth where stupid people making stupid decisions are forced to suffer the results of their own bad behaviour. Sweet!


14 posted on 03/23/2009 4:56:15 AM PDT by 50sDad (The mainstream media is the only watch dog that decides what it is going to bark at.)
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Yeah that would be one weird planet, Islamo-Earth.

Nobody to hate but themselves.


15 posted on 03/23/2009 5:00:28 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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Jetpacks and teleportation. Heck, why not a ring that you can put on and fly but thats a few centuries a ways (JLA..)


16 posted on 03/23/2009 5:08:02 AM PDT by FreeManWhoCan (Who is Tlag Nhoj?)
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I would like to be able to push a button and kill anybody on this list.



17 posted on 03/23/2009 5:23:44 AM PDT by greedo
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HeatHkit nuke power, for DIY’ers.


18 posted on 03/23/2009 5:24:07 AM PDT by Freedom4US (l)
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How about a machine to deprogram Commie liberals and cure their mental illness?


19 posted on 03/23/2009 5:24:40 AM PDT by antisocial (Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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A cure for Presbyopia.


20 posted on 03/23/2009 5:25:22 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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