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Grow your own organs (from your own cells)

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/this-could- ... 51147.html

I still think that Romney is worse than Obama, if only a tiny little bit. I have learned in recent months that there is really not a big difference between the reps and the dems when it comes to the really important decisions. They both have been happily voting for laws contradicting the constituti...

I'm 53 now, when I was very young, I was told that if air pollution continued at the then current level, all life on earth would die within 20 years. Later on, I was told air pollution would lead to a new ice age, there were sf books written and sold on that theme for the longest time. Now the scie...

[I don't know about you, but I have children, and I am very concerned about the world in which they will have to live after I am gone. At this point, the greatest threat to them is not air pollution or man caused global warming. (which is a crock of sh*t anyway) The greatest threat to them is socia...

Global climate aside, the outrage over "only the richest" having access to life extension would match or dwarf any other popular discontent in human history. It would get voted into accessibility in a hurry. Welfare handouts are chump change in comparison. And yep the Long View will get a lot of ne...

Personally, I'm more concerned about the release of methane from ice, permafrost (Siberian & Canadian peat bogs) and ocean floor hydrates. Far harder to model and much more likely to spike and turn the current climate model temperature highs into floors. Irrational/psychopathic/narcissistic/sociopa...

I think you are completely wrong here. Rush Limbaugh is a skeptic because he suspects the motives of everyone pushing the Global Warming theory, and because all the actual science indicates it is entirely a crock of crap. When I first considered the theory that Carbon Dioxide might cause the atmosp...

However the part about the "immortal" Stalin type had more cred though. It wouldn't have to be a Stalin type. Just your average fortune 500 CEO who thinks only of his/her own stock options and doesn't care whether the company or country survives as long as they get their cut. The general danger is ...

A couple of pretty stubborn deathists in the comments. Surprisingly... or unsurprisingly, they have no different arguments from the usual. The bottom line still is what Kurt argues - there is no good reason to effectively condemn others to death. The right to live longer is as inalienable as those ...

Space Law: Is Asteroid Mining Legal? http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/opinion-asteroid-mining/ From: ...Under any definition of ownership, the United States clearly owns the Apollo lunar samples. Any entity that can claim something as an exclusive resource, control its transport and distri...

Aubrey de Grey debates the goal of defeating aging entirely

http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/04/aubrey ... oal-of.htm

SpaceX Test Fires Private Rocket Bound for Space Station

http://www.space.com/15475-spacex-falco ... -test.html

Of course the Spartans were conquered eventually and our extinct As far as my point goes - that moral standards across different cultures and points in history are not consistent, so Diogenes' theory of universal morality is problematic - it matters not that their moral system died out. It matters ...

It is my belief that a Universal morality exists and can be objectively defined... Some aspects are obvious... "Though shalt not steal" Well the Spartans didn't think it was obvious. They encouraged their children to steal because it demonstrated cunning. Those who were caught were severely punishe...

I think this is confusing morality with power. there is a single moral system consistent with this view: "might is right". Our literature (especially the classicsl literatire) is full of examples where a moral idea does not win in any material sense but is remembered and held up as admirable, even ...