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rifleman13
05-29-08, 12:51 AM
Check this out:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7420026.stm

Any thoughts?
mcf1
05-29-08, 03:01 AM
Check this out:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7420026.stm

Any thoughts?

Wow!!!
But his real dream was a future in which the human body would become, in Friedman's words, "a machine with constantly reparable or replaceable parts".

the doctor's dream is becoming real
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosthesis
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3488-worlds-first-brain-prosthesis-revealed.html
bradclark1
05-29-08, 08:42 AM
He was just chasing every great persons dream. On the other hand I think most people who have gained fame end up turning a little or a lot nuts. Just look at for example Howard Hughes, todays music stars and actors.
August
05-29-08, 08:47 AM
Bah he was a nazi sympathizer. If he hadn't made the first trans-atlantic flight the world would have been happy to forget his name.
bradclark1
05-29-08, 08:52 AM
Bah he was a nazi sympathizer..
Yeah. A hardcore one at that.
Jacky Fisher
05-29-08, 02:15 PM
all that immortality stuff was wrapped up in some very disturbing eugenics crap that Lindbergh was involved in.
bradclark1
05-29-08, 06:10 PM
eugenics
Had to look that word up:
Relating or adapted to the production of good or improved offspring
Letum
05-29-08, 06:26 PM
eugenics Had to look that word up:
Relating or adapted to the production of good or improved offspring
Well, there's eugenics and there's eugenics.

In the 1930/40s eugenics meant castrating or killing the disabled and ethnic minorities
because you believe you are superior to them.
There is nothing "improved" about the offspring that result from racial/ethnic eugenics.
This is eugenics as a social project.


Modern eugenics is somewhat less sinister, but still controversial. DNA screening before
embryo implantation is one example.
This is not eugenics as part of a wider social project.
bradclark1
05-29-08, 06:30 PM
Ah! Learn something new every day.:know:
Thanks
badhat17
05-29-08, 09:31 PM
Bah he was a nazi sympathizer. If he hadn't made the first trans-atlantic flight the world would have been happy to forget his name.

Hardly the first.
Jacky Fisher
06-02-08, 05:56 PM
Lindbergh was just one of a large group of prominant Americans who flirted with political tyranny during the 1930s, mostly in response to the trauma of the Great Depression