Samantha, Samantha, Samantha<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Samantha Atkins</b> <<a href="mailto:sjatkins@mac.com">sjatkins@mac.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Jul 5, 2006, at 3:58 PM, BillK wrote:<br><br>> On 7/5/06, Robert Bradbury wrote:<br>>> .. For example I can make a very good case that the war in Iraq<br>>> will in<br>>> retrospect end up having cost millions, perhaps tens of millions
<br>>> of lives<br>>> (due to the fact that that money that will be unavailable for<br>>> nanomedical<br>>> related developments that would significantly extend the lifespan of<br>>> millions of people).
<br>>><br>><br>> You could also make a case that the war in Iraq will save millions of<br>> lives by driving the Singularity technology forward. Research on<br>> robotic vehicles, robot bomb investigators, robots to go into tunnels,
<br>> robot flying vehicles, new weaponry, new medical facilities, new<br>> bionic limbs, new armor technology, new radars, nano technology,<br>> computer systems, ..... the list goes on.<br><br>Largely fantastical I am afraid. The troops don't have adequate old
<br>fashioned armor. Their are some new pieces of military hardware and<br>some robotics but arguably not as much as the same money invested in<br>the civilian R&D world would bring and much more focus toward<br>aggression and worrisome uses of technology than might otherwise be
<br>the case. Plus we are increasing world volatility and the likely<br>escalation of this so-called "war on terror" . It is perverting our<br>civil liberties and much of the domestic agenda.<br><br>> There is a vast amount being
<br>> invested in pushing research on as fast as possible to support the war<br>> in Iraq.<br><br>That is certainly no justification for this pointless war.<br><br>- samantha<br><br>_______________________________________________
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