when do the lines between science and science fiction begin to blur?

[great lover]

It is now possible to upload memories to a mouse.

What's next? Erase human memories and replace them with fake ones?

Isn't this right out of that joss whedon series dollhouse?

Man should quit fooling around with things he doesn't understand and not take God's work in his hands.

 

[eyer]

http://media.npr.org/assets/bakertaylor/covers/p/physics-of-the-future/9780385530804_custom.jpg?t=1312566105&s=15

Looks like a lifted cover from Popular Mechanics, 1950...

 

[Frizzle_Fry]

Man should quit fooling around with things he doesn't understand and not take God's work in his hands.

You must prove it's God's work in the first place before you can use that argument. Besides he is all knowing and all powerful right? AND he loves each and every one of us so nothing bad will happen.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jSjUyzBC0Jk/TPaFUN9piTI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/UUUJA_p9YvY/s1600/church%2Bburning1.jpg

OH NOES!!!

 

[KingOrfeo]

Man should quit fooling around with things he doesn't understand and not take God's work in his hands.

Fools! I'll destroy them all! With my army of programmed mice!

 

[EllieTalbot]

It is now possible to upload memories to a mouse.

What's next? Erase human memories and replace them with fake ones?

Isn't this right out of that joss whedon series dollhouse?

Sounds more like Bladerunner to me.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OORyagu8ETY/TT-i5LJITEI/AAAAAAAADno/-FLneOOhb64/s1600/Robots_rachel.jpg​

Tapped by Tyrell,
Ellie

 

[warrior queen]

All of this stuff, while theoretically possible, will most probably not happen in our lifetime (or even our children, and quite possibly not even their children!)
Growing up, I was told that by the time I was able to get a drivers license I would probably have a car that would drive itself. Some of my teachers in science were talking flying cars in my lifetime!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Human memory is a useful fiction, like synthetic leather.

What there is is recognition. Every human comes from the factory with a different set of recognition forms or templates. The templates are plastic at birth and harden or vanish from experience. Use it ot lose it.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Man should quit fooling around with things he doesn't understand and not take God's work in his hands.

Really? Another Frankenstein remake?

 

[JohnnySavage]

I can't wait for the sciency fictiony thing where pictures can be resized so they don't screw up the screen. That will be a great day.

 

[great lover]

I can't wait for the sciency fictiony thing where pictures can be resized so they don't screw up the screen. That will be a great day.

There's an addon for that.

 

[great lover]

Sounds more like Bladerunner to me.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OORyagu8ETY/TT-i5LJITEI/AAAAAAAADno/-FLneOOhb64/s1600/Robots_rachel.jpg​

Tapped by Tyrell,
Ellie

Have you seen dollhouse?

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Man should quit fooling around with things he doesn't understand and not take God's work in his hands.

What do you think birth control is, then?

 

[VaticanAssassin]

What do you think birth control is, then?

When I pull out and she swallows?

 

[great lover]

What do you think birth control is, then?

Abstinence is the real answer. Birth control is evil.
God wants us to go forth and multiply.

 

[great lover]

When I pull out and she swallows?

Oral and anal sex work as good as abstinence.

 

[Quoll]

when do the lines between science and science fiction begin to blur?

Never, you moron, that's why it's called fiction.

If you must use parts of tired old clichés for thread titles, at least use one that actually makes sense.

Here's a boring one that suits.

When science fiction becomes science fact.

 

[1sickbastard]

God wants us to go forth and multiply.

The Almightly wants us to go around demonstrating basic math skills?

 

[atmas]

It is now possible to upload memories to a mouse.

What's next? Erase human memories and replace them with fake ones?

Isn't this right out of that joss whedon series dollhouse?

Man should quit fooling around with things he doesn't understand and not take God's work in his hands.

Let us be clear about this: the idea of implanting human memories can be traced at least as far back as to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (maybe not so much the Philip K Dick story on which it was based).

 

[atmas]

Abstinence is the real answer. Birth control is evil.
God wants us to go forth and multiply.

Every sperm is sacred
Every sperm is great
If just one sperm is wasted
God gets quite irate.

 

[Peregrinator]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111220133938.htm

ScienceDaily (Dec. 20, 2011) — When one tiny circuit within an integrated chip cracks or fails, the whole chip -- or even the whole device -- is a loss. But what if it could fix itself, and fix itself so fast that the user never knew there was a problem?

A team of University of Illinois engineers has developed a self-healing system that restores electrical conductivity to a cracked circuit in less time than it takes to blink. Led by aerospace engineering professor Scott White and materials science and engineering professor Nancy Sottos, the researchers published their results in the journal Advanced Materials.

 

[Sean]

Let us be clear about this: the idea of implanting human memories can be traced at least as far back as to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (maybe not so much the Philip K Dick story on which it was based).

There is, however, a Dick story called A Maze of Death where it plays a major part.

 

[1sickbastard]

It is now possible to upload memories to a mouse.

What's next? Erase human memories and replace them with fake ones?

Isn't this right out of that joss whedon series dollhouse?

Man should quit fooling around with things he doesn't understand and not take God's work in his hands.

That idea was, I think, originally advanced by Phillip K Dick.

If God (assuming for this thread that one does exist) didn't want humans to fool around with the world, he (she/it, whatever) wouldn't have made us with opposible digits and the intellect to do so.

 

[great lover]

I think it's the devil who's fucking with us, but that's my personal opinion.


On a more serious note, everyone's heard of Atlantis the lost civilization. Do you know what happened to them? They paid their price for fooling around with science. I pray that doesn't happen to us.