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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

The real geeks among us long for synthohol. Only Class A nerds know, or admit to knowing, what it is, too.

But I have to tell you, your potential partner’s drinking it won’t make you any better looking. Better to stick with the real thing.

I’d surely like to see cheap, readily available fusion power. With unlimited energy comes unlimited possibility.

Medical advances never really grabbed my interest. Probably—and luckily—because I don’t have any sicknesses.

Would be good to see genetics progress to the point where we can reliably clone humans so that we don’t deprive the world of another me.

Proofs of various unsolved problems in math would be, as Martha says, a good thing, but, eh. Math will never cease, there is no natural stopping point, no real goal.

I can go to my grave—not happily, but resignedly—without knowing what the unified theory is, or whether string theory or something deeper is true.

But what I’d really like to know—I mean know, for certain—is whether life exists, particularly sentient life, on other planets.

When I was younger and...

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yup.
Hayflick limit defeated.


21 posted on 03/23/2009 5:30:33 AM PDT by djf (Tag line closed. Lack of interest.)
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To: mattstat

A reset button.


22 posted on 03/23/2009 5:32:32 AM PDT by bgill
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To: mattstat
I would like to see Obama surgically removed from his TelePrompter.
23 posted on 03/23/2009 5:32:40 AM PDT by Ranger Drew
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To: mattstat

A way to get to get people and cargo to and from orbit cheaply, quickly and safely, whether its a beanstalk, a new drive, or what.


24 posted on 03/23/2009 5:32:52 AM PDT by Little Ray (Do we have a Plan B?)
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25 posted on 03/23/2009 5:37:30 AM PDT by paulycy (BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex)
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To: paulycy

Dang, I clicked the button hoping for a change but so such luck.


26 posted on 03/23/2009 5:47:07 AM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill
Dang, I clicked the button hoping for a change but so such luck.

Sorry, images are illusions. Just like 0bama is showing us.

27 posted on 03/23/2009 5:48:45 AM PDT by paulycy (BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex)
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To: mattstat

The Obamavaporizer?


28 posted on 03/23/2009 5:59:05 AM PDT by Doc Savage ("Are you saying Jesus can't hit a curve ball? - Harris to Cerrano - Major League)
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To: mattstat

Boosterspice


29 posted on 03/23/2009 6:01:04 AM PDT by MilspecRob (Most people don't act stupid, they really are.)
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To: mattstat
The nerd in me says: A means to convert fission reactors into fusion reactors where those new reactors can reprocess all the existing nuclear waste and produce only some completely inert waste byproduct.

The capitalist in me says: I want the exclusive patent rights to determine the price for that conversion kit and who gets it.

The incorrigible sex starved pig in me has a completely different direction to go but that is available in FReepmail only so that I don't get banned.

30 posted on 03/23/2009 6:04:22 AM PDT by NerdDad (Aug 7, 1981, I married my soul mate, CDBEAR. 27 years and I'm still teenager-crazy in love with her.)
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To: mattstat
A real mister fusion device, small enough to fit in a shoe box.
31 posted on 03/23/2009 6:48:16 AM PDT by 2001convSVT ("Only Property Owners that pay taxes should have the right to Vote")
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To: mattstat

Cold fusion.


32 posted on 03/23/2009 8:55:17 AM PDT by Kevmo ( It's all over for this Country as a Constitutional Republic. ~Leo Donofrio, 12/14/08)
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To: mattstat

Forever green and short lawn.


33 posted on 03/23/2009 1:16:33 PM PDT by celebration
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To: celebration

They already invented AstroTurf.


34 posted on 03/23/2009 1:20:07 PM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

Artificial lawn?! Nah... I meant real grass that grows and has various shades of green.


35 posted on 03/23/2009 3:28:54 PM PDT by celebration
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