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Plaything48 · Feb 14, 2004, 06:17 pm

It was an exciting scientific year, and a lot of discoveries were made. What was the most significant?

**Pooeypants** · Feb 14, 2004, 06:21 pm

Too many choices....ahhh brain overload...

Packratt · Feb 14, 2004, 06:35 pm

Research done last year into quantum entanglement was pretty interesting as well.

But it is a difficult choice because it's hard to say which one will have the greatest effect on humanity, it depends on how the benefits or detriments of the technologies are distributed and used.

Impenitent · Feb 15, 2004, 12:18 am

hanging chad detectors

View Poll Results: What was the most important science and technology development of 2003?
A new era of space exploration begins	2	28.57%
Life extension drugs enter the marketplace	0	0%
Stem cells begin to fulfill their promise	1	14.29%
Gene therapy goes commercial	0	0%
The gaining plausibility of nanomedicine	0	0%
Global robot usage on the increase	1	14.29%
Genes for major illnesses uncovered	0	0%
Minds and machines begin to merge through neural interface advances	2	28.57%
Therapeutic brain stimulation gains credibility	0	0%
Breakthroughs in the understanding of dark energy and dark matter	1	14.29%
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Feb 14, 2004, 06:17 pm	#1 (permalink) (top)
Plaything48 Igneous Magma Location: London baby, yeah! Posts: 198	It was an exciting scientific year, and a lot of discoveries were made. What was the most significant? A man has two reasons for doing anything --- a good reason and the real reason. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

Feb 14, 2004, 06:21 pm	#2 (permalink) (top)
Pooeypants Neo Moderator Location: England Posts: 5,470	Too many choices....ahhh brain overload... War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is strength Harness the power of Ingsoc, then you can capture someone killed the year before

Feb 14, 2004, 06:35 pm	#3 (permalink) (top)
Packratt Molten Ash Location: Crimetown USA Posts: 130	Research done last year into quantum entanglement was pretty interesting as well. But it is a difficult choice because it's hard to say which one will have the greatest effect on humanity, it depends on how the benefits or detriments of the technologies are distributed and used. "...the worker's liberty... is only a theoretical freedom, lacking any means for its possible realisation, and consequently it is only a fictitious liberty, an utter falsehood. -Bakunin

Feb 15, 2004, 12:18 am	#4 (permalink) (top)
Impenitent Hot Lava Posts: 1,859	hanging chad detectors "I really like this jacket, but the sleeves are much too long..." insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results...