It'll be something about science that he doesn't understand, like the Van Allen belts, that's always a favourite with the ignorant.
It's the bit that Van Allen actually worked for NASA and called the Bart Sibrel hoax 'An assemblage of entertaining nonsense' that seems to escape them when they confidently cite the Van Allen belts.
I said a while ago on here that we'd start finding more extrasolar objects because our technology has improved enough to find them. I remember when Saturn only had 10 moons, now it has over 270.
This is the start of being able to make humans live forever. ————————————————— Artificial intelligence has invented two new potential antibiotics that could kill drug-resistant gonorrhoea and MRSA, researchers have revealed. The drugs were designed atom-by-atom by the AI and killed the superbugs in laboratory and animal tests. The two compounds still need years of refinement and clinical trials before they could be prescribed. But the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team behind it say AI could start a "second golden age" in antibiotic discovery. Antibiotics kill bacteria, but infections that resist treatment are now causing more than a million deaths a year. Overusing antibiotics has helped bacteria evolve to dodge the drugs' effects, and there has been a shortage of new antibiotics for decades. Researchers have previously used AI to trawl through thousands of known chemicals in an attempt to identify ones with potential to become new antibiotics.
There were bizarre claims after Covid that it had been designed by quantum computers and cooked up in a lab - who knows? I will say this about any wonder drug, though - nature is designed to find a way, to roll the dice as many times as it takes to find a mutation that gets around a barrier, and that means all forms of life, including viruses and bacteria. Cancer will one day become manageable, but we'll never eliminate it because it is a life form that quite literally mutates. Things like smallpox and measles can be virtually eliminated, even malaria can - but they never completely go away, and will wait for decades, even centuries, for a mutation and an opening to get back in again. The only way to achieve everlasting 'life' is to be able to download consciousness, and we're a long, long way from doing that, and even when we do it, the consequences will be incredibly profound if Black Mirror is anything to go by.
I love all this quantum mechanics and multi universe bolloxs, and how consciouness continues in a parallel universe after death in this universe. Thing is even in religion, I always saw our bodies as a disposable shell but reincarnation of the soul, not saying I believe in reincarnation I hasten to add. I love all them sort of stories, but treat them just as that stories. I can get into the fantasy of many worlds interpretation. I love how it's reminded how it's highly speculative, but isn't our interpretation of life exactly that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortality
Indeed. The metaphysics of it all is overwhelming. Eventually, we come to my favourite hobby-horse - the Anthropic Principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle This is just a recreation of the geocentric universe, imo, putting man at the centre of everything, and substituting the universe for God. But what do I know? Btw, do you watch Black Mirror? As thought-provoking as the original 50s/60s Twilight Zone for me. I can't think of a higher compliment.
No I've never watched Black Mirror. I looked up the programme I see you need Netflix to watch it, which I've got on my TV, but I don't know the sign in for it, I think my son set up, so need to ask him when he comes round because he's probably got a family subscription package. Otherwise it says it can be bought on Amazon I watched a trailer of it, which seemed a bit OTT and darting from one scene to another, which my brain will never keep up with, so can give the first episode ago and see how I feel about it. Although knowing me when I sign into something for the first time in ages, I'll end up watching something completely different lol.
It's not a series, per se. As I alluded to with the Twilight Zone comparison, it's separate, thought-provoking, futuristic moral tales (though not all - Loch Henry - that I found very disturbing - had nothing to do with tech). You'll find some episodes bizarre, some thrilling, some dull, some mind-blowing, and some of these in one go. You just need your e-mail address to set it up or re-set it (or your son's, if he set it up). I'd DM you mine but I've already been told off by Netflix for sharing with my daughter and my niece and pretting we all lived in the same house. I think they suspected i was a Scouser.
Cheers mate, it's fine my lad will set it up in seconds for me when he's round. I could text him, but he's only just got back from Spain today, and knowing him is probably commuting in the morning. Might text him tomorrow, see how i feel.
