Lindbergh and Immortality

[rifleman13]

Check this out:

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

Any thoughts?

[mcf1]

Originally Posted by rifleman13

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/...-revealed.html

[bradclark1]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by August

Bah he was a nazi sympathizer..

Yeah. A hardcore one at that.

[Jacky Fisher]

all that immortality stuff was wrapped up in some very disturbing eugenics crap that Lindbergh was involved in.

[bradclark1]

Originally Posted by Jacky Fisher

eugenics

Had to look that word up:
Relating or adapted to the production of good or improved offspring

[Letum]

Originally Posted by bradclark1

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]

Ah! Learn something new every day.
Thanks

[badhat17]

Originally Posted by August

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]

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