tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513704378254120283.post6146562199339371075..comments2024-01-23T13:58:48.688-08:00Comments on The Trenches of Discovery: Worshipping the funding mountainShaun Hotchkisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832423210563130467noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513704378254120283.post-87687323785177160692012-07-27T07:07:32.369-07:002012-07-27T07:07:32.369-07:00Actually, I think I'm being a bit ambitious cl...Actually, I think I'm being a bit ambitious claiming that "my side" will colonise space. The colonisation of space would (will?) be done by engineers and "my side" will probably just end up watching and giving enthusiastic encouragement (along with everyone else).Shaun Hotchkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04832423210563130467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513704378254120283.post-78698273102145309552012-07-27T07:04:35.340-07:002012-07-27T07:04:35.340-07:00If your side are going to actually cure cancer one...If your side are going to actually cure cancer one day, then my side better get our bloody act together in colonising space or the Earth is going to get very crowded, very soon.<br /><br />Though the internet just told me that cardiovascular stuff kills more people in the developed world through heart and stroke related events than cancer does. I guess when the machinery wears out it just one day stops working no matter how much we conquer the internal (and external) pathogens. Though what was possible with <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/16/brain-implant-paralysed-woman-robot-thoughts" rel="nofollow">this woman</a> suggests we might one day not face the wearing out of the machinery problem either.<br /><br />I guess at that point it will simply be how long a brain can last that dictates life-spans. In which case I imagine we'll all go mad long before we actually die.Shaun Hotchkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04832423210563130467noreply@blogger.com