Friday, January 26, 2007

Scary Ideas



Science has always hovered uneasily on the fringes of morality and madness - sometimes sane, often innane - or worse: downright dangerous...

Just to keep our ears to the ground, and to learn what overtly is going on - read this recent report from Popular Science on 'The Scariest Ideas in Science' - including:

Reanimated Infection
Merciless Robot Soldiers
Planetary Solar Shield
The Ultimate Vicious Carnivore
Grow New Appendages


2 comments:

Patrick said...

Hey Kingsley,

I'd recently read that article...pretty amazing and scary stuff.

I know that these scientists are human beings and (by and large) have no extremely distasteful motivations, but it still scares me to think that human frailty plays a role in such experimentation...

Kingsley said...

You can probably guess that most of these projects are partly funded by military sources, indirectly...

The future is a human story, for better or for worse...

Thanks for popping by...