<div dir="ltr"><div>Cool, yes. But you know what isn't cool?  People who are "too cool to pay any attention". <br><br></div>Technology for the must unthankful and dismisive generation ever.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:54 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Those of you who have been hanging out on ExI-chat for a long time, remember the kinds of stuff we were talking about here less than 20 yrs ago, how ethereal it seemed, so far off.  These are the top five stories today in the most mainstream news source there is, CNN:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:7.5pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.75pt;background:white" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Science news<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white" align="center"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/26/health/ivf-mitochondria/index.html?iid=article_sidebar" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#004276;text-decoration:none">FDA considering '3-parent babies' </span></b></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:9.0pt;background:white" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#828282">updated 7:06 PM EST, Thu February 27, 2014 <u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:30.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white" align="center"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/26/health/ivf-mitochondria/index.html?iid=article_sidebar" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004276;text-decoration:none"><img src="cid:image001.jpg@01CF4223.1BFABEE0" alt="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/111012042456-newborn-baby-birth-video-tease.jpg" height="68" border="0" width="120"></span></b></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:10.5pt;background:white" align="center"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A promising way to stop a deadly disease, or an uncomfortable step toward what one leading ethicist called eugenics?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white" align="center"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/14/us/seattle-mammoth-tusk/index.html?iid=article_sidebar" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#004276;text-decoration:none">Huge mammoth tusk discovered</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:9.0pt;background:white" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#828282">updated 8:07 PM EST, Fri February 14, 2014 <u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:30.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white" align="center"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/14/us/seattle-mammoth-tusk/index.html?iid=article_sidebar" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004276;text-decoration:none"><img src="cid:image002.jpg@01CF4223.1BFABEE0" alt="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140214124404-mammoth-seattle-0214-video-tease.jpg" height="68" border="0" width="120"></span></b></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:10.5pt;background:white" align="center"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Seattle paleontologists safely removed the largest fossilized mammoth tusk discovered in the region from a construction site.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white" align="center"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/14/health/texas-lungs-grown/index.html?iid=article_sidebar" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#004276;text-decoration:none">Human lung made in lab for first time </span></b></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:9.0pt;background:white" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#828282">updated 4:37 PM EST, Fri February 14, 2014 <u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:30.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white" align="center"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/14/health/texas-lungs-grown/index.html?iid=article_sidebar" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004276;text-decoration:none"><img src="cid:image003.jpg@01CF4223.1BFABEE0" alt="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140214150321-lung-comparison-video-tease.jpg" height="68" border="0" width="120"></span></b></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:10.5pt;background:white" align="center"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For the first time, scientists have created human lungs in a lab -- an exciting step forward in regenerative medicine.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white" align="center"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/12/health/nanomotors-cells-science/index.html?iid=article_sidebar" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#004276;text-decoration:none">Scientists control motors inside cells</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:9.0pt;background:white" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#828282">updated 7:55 AM EST, Wed February 12, 2014 <u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:30.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white" align="center"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/12/health/nanomotors-cells-science/index.html?iid=article_sidebar" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004276;text-decoration:none"><img src="cid:image004.jpg@01CF4223.1BFABEE0" alt="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140211120350-nanoparticles-video-tease.jpg" height="68" border="0" width="120"></span></b></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:10.5pt;background:white" align="center"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tiny rocket-shaped metal particles might one day take a wild ride inside your body.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white" align="center"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/05/health/bionic-hand/index.html?iid=article_sidebar" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#004276;text-decoration:none">Artificial hand lets amputee feel </span></b></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:9.0pt;background:white" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#828282">updated 3:11 PM EST, Thu February 6, 2014 <u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:30.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white" align="center"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/05/health/bionic-hand/index.html?iid=article_sidebar" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004276;text-decoration:none"><img src="cid:image005.jpg@01CF4223.1BFABEE0" alt="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140205153125-bionic-hand-video-tease.jpg" height="68" border="0" width="120"></span></b></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:22.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:15.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:10.5pt;background:white" align="center"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ten years ago on New Year's Eve, Dennis Aabo Sorensen was launching fireworks when a defective rocket blew up. He was rushed to the hospital, and his left hand was amputated.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Cool, ja?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal">
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