Before we get where we’re going, consider…imaging with flat lenses having negative refraction…Mars Express takes a first snapshot of its target…using membranes to clear the air on a manned Mars mission…measuring the “rythmic pulse” inside the structure of a single cell…predicting human infant miscarriages with ultrasound…monitoring unborn baby hearts with military radar…scanning the brains of babies learning to speak…medical calls for a British legal ban on tobacco smoking…announcing a very special DNA cookbook on how to make a mouse…seems that most of the many of the convictions against Thomas Butler in his plague trial are not from bringing samples into America, but shipping them back to Africa (and OK, under the table payments from pharmaceutical companies, too)…and finally, archeological time capsules of a buried car, er, being buried WITH a car, er, being buried with a 2500 year old Iron Age chariot…hey, there…are…worse…ways…to…go!!!
Sheesh!!!!
3 Responses to What A Way To Go…
Sweetwind
December 5th, 2003 at 3:34 pm
Remember what happened last time you brought up the subject… the willing victims are definitely out there, and I don’t know whether to wish our member luck in his quest, or not. I believe in assisted suicide, but only when medically necessary (as in terminal illness and suffering)…but then again I find it hard to go against an individual’s choice in the matter. So if, like The Dish of the Day in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, he earnestly wants it, who is to gainsay him?
Anonymous
December 6th, 2003 at 12:19 am
It is a sad, disturbing, and wretched testemant to the endless adaptability of man, that eventually every possible bizzare, perverse, and insane act will not only be thought of, but embraced, accepted, and then defended.
The fact that Mr.Meiwes has chosen cannabalism is not so disturbing as the fact that he not only found his eventual victem Mr.Brandes, but found a seeming plethora of VOLUNTEERS. Such a thing would be disturbing enough as a last request in a will, but as a chosen end, it was incomprehensible.
rickyjames
December 6th, 2003 at 9:15 am
…while I solidly agree with absloutely everything you have said, we are I think morally obligated to TRY and comprehend stuff like this. Which is why I present stuff like this on SciScoop. It’s revolting but it’s also critically important that we as a civilized society acknowledge and even try to understand understand the psychology and sociology and anthropology behind it, so we can keep it in check to infect our tomorrows as little as possible. Somehow it’s tied in with the atrocities that have happened repeatedly in places like Rwanda and Cambodia and Germany. The Rwanda genocide verdict this week is especially important – those guys were DJs that talked in a studio instead of swinging a machette in a village. Hate speech on the radio can now be a war crime…