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Hubris, much? Yes, this is a commendable effort, but I don't think they have the smarts/money for this. Even at an investor/patron level.

• jonknee 10y ago
  It almost certainly won't happen, but you could have said the same thing about starting a social network that includes over a billion daily users.
  • M_Grey 10y ago
    That's like comparing the discovery of a new fundamental force, with the discovery that mythical dragons have been living in secret among us as our lawyers. It's true that both are unlikely, but one is ridiculous and the other merely very very challenging.
    • hmate9 10y ago
      Not sure which one is the ridiculous and which one is the very very challenging...
    • jonknee 10y ago
      I don't think it's all that ridiculous, it's over 80 years in the future. 80 years ago we were dying of all sorts of [now] easily preventable and curable diseases. Penicillin was not used until 1942!
      • M_Grey 10y ago
        And now it's practically useless. It's not a one-sided battle we're in, and we're heavily outnumbered.
        • jonknee 10y ago
          The point was that so much has changed in the previous ~80 years that I don't think it's ridiculous to think things will be radically different ~80 years into the future.
          • M_Grey 10y ago
            Barring universally available, and highly advanced nanotech, it's ridiculous to think that all diseases will be "tackled" in ~80 years. In that same time frame it's much more likely that we'll be tackling issues of how to maintain a semblance of civilization, not achieving utopia.