(December 24, 2017 at 2:53 am)AFTT47 Wrote: Yeah, it's good stuff. From the viewpoint of an old fart, though (I'm 58), it's disappointing.
People still die of cancer. The husband of a former co-worker just died at 38 years-old. He was a military member and supposedly contracted it while serving if Afghanistan. I don't know how that determination was made.
We are still intelligent animals who are very much at the mercy of disorders of the body we are unable to treat.
I am with you, shadow in applauding progress but I wish it was better.
Yes, just think of how much more progress we could make if we put more resources into science. I know by and large, research is often put on the backburner unless it's going to be feeding someone's wallet directly. Yet we still have incredible progress happening each year, which in the scope of our history as a species is extremely rapid. But we're not even close to trying our hardest yet - just imagine our rate of progress if we made this our priority. We have so much potential. I love that.
