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To: RegulatorCountry
I suspect first out of the box will be an attempt to create superhuman soldiers.

Good God, why does EVERYONE leap to that..?

It is freaking STAGGERING the variety of benefits of this tech.

Fire burns us, has wiped out entire cities, but does that mean cave-men should have banished FIRE..?

When telephones were first invented people said, "Tuberculosis will spread like wild-fire, the speaker talks directly into the EAR of the listener..!"

When they invented trains horsemen said they'd never catch on, "No one will be able to breathe, as the wind in passengers' faces will be too fierce..."

When new tech comes out there is ALWAYS fear.

The day after the first flight by the Wright Brothers the front page of the NYT featured long stories by phycicists about how flight by men not only hadn't occured but was IMPOSSIBLE.

75 posted on 01/26/2017 7:36:44 PM PST by gaijin
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To: gaijin
Good God, why does EVERYONE leap to that..?

Because it's a logical extension of the research for an amoral or immoral researcher. Are you aware of just how many robotics advances had their origin in research into giving soldiers "superhuman" capabilities? It's not a far-fetched thought, no matter how hard you try to tinfoil it.

78 posted on 01/26/2017 7:40:52 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: gaijin

This is only objectionable until your child is in need of an organ transplant.


79 posted on 01/26/2017 7:41:01 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: gaijin

our genes are what make us human. Tamper with those and what it means to be human could be lost. Do you trust this technology with ISIS? China? Iran, etc.? Nuclear power was going to save us. Clean energy. We have nukes and 3-headed Japanese fish. Nuclear weapons are NOTHING compared to gene modification.


83 posted on 01/26/2017 7:44:29 PM PST by brucedickinson
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To: gaijin
Good God, why does EVERYONE leap to that..?

Right, why soldiers when football players are much more important.

124 posted on 01/27/2017 7:36:56 AM PST by itsahoot (Return the power to the people, and Mexico will pay for the wall, 100%)
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