I love science, although I am not a scientist. I am fascinated by all the new developments, but don’t have the patience or mental rigor to understand them in any depth. That’s O.K. If you want details, there are places you can get those. I offer speculation, for what it’s worth.
Ocean Man
Science is a pretty broad term, though. I am very interested in space, particularly the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence. They’re out there, and contact could change everything, be a major shortcut to the future. I’m also quite interested in any life extending technology, because I’d like to live forever, if at all possible. I’m interested in cybernetics, for the same reason. The singularity is coming, and I hope it comes soon. I get excited about any article on the intelligence, and psychology, of the great apes. No particular reason, I just think they are cool.
For some reason, deep sea exploration doesn’t usually interest me the same way. I know there’s an alien, exotic world down there, completely different than the one we inhabit, but it’s only fish.
This development, though, is amazing, and has on-land implications. It’s a diving suit, it looks a bit like a space suit, but it allows the wearer to go down to about 350 meters, have total mobility (plus some pretty cool prosthetic attachments for collecting and analyzing samples), and stay down for up to 50 hours, although nobody’s going to stay down that long because people need to sleep, not to mention eat and drink and pee and poop. I don’t know, maybe they’ve worked those out as well. It also has jets to help you get around quicker.
People are calling it the “superhero suit” and that’s sort of what it is. That’s why I say it has on-land implications. Some day, we will have superheroes walking around doing all the dangerous jobs. Firemen will have suits like this, so they can walk right through flames. Policemen and soldiers will have supersuits, which is not necessarily a good thing.
There is the problem. How do we make sure the good guys become the superheroes, when our society is, quite clearly, being run by the bad guys?
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