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The lives saved by devices like this may end up being the ones who improve science, medicine, and technology sufficiently well enough to come up with the next i

by ibisum 12y ago

The lives saved by devices like this may end up being the ones who improve science, medicine, and technology sufficiently well enough to come up with the next innovation to improve conditions in life. Point? Entropy is a bitch, but mankind carries a bigger stick.

mpyne 12y ago
Guys, guys, I get it. All I'm saying is that we do actually need to try to anticipate issues ahead of time. For everyone who's saying that nothing could evolve to resist this, please look at Legionnaire's disease: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires'_disease http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires'_disease This is a disease which can be fatal, and is found in association with systems involving water, including hot water heaters. I'll grant you as much as you likely that you're unlikely to get this or that, what I'm cautioning against is the idea that you've found a silver bullet. You've never found a silver bullet against bacteria, and it's better to go into use of systems like these with that assumption. Thinking ahead to make "thoroughly rinse, clean, and dry this system at least once a week" part of the instructions for use as a precaution against bacteria isn't nay-saying, it could be quite valuable to the people we would have using systems like these in the future.
- ibisum 12y ago
  As long as good technology gets communicated well enough to be effectively applied, with real results, there is hope in the world. How we go about doing that, especially for life-destroying subjects such as these diseases, is a matter of great importance to mankind and is thus, alas, subject to all mankinds' cultures. Expressions of technological prowess mean nothing if the basics of human life, in the first place - the real rudimentary stuff, like: water, food, shelter - are nearly non-existent. Our only hope, is all I'm saying, is in our ability to cross all boundaries and communicate under extraordinary duress, nevertheless, with effective results. So I fully support your position. I'm encouraged by the community efforts being made to address this; there is, after all, a very large industrial powerhouse that can be directed towards these problems. If we see Ebola-bots on the horizon, better hope they're flying away and not getting closer, uh oh ..

by ibisum 12y ago

mpyne 12y ago

Guys, guys, I get it. All I'm saying is that we do actually need to try to anticipate issues ahead of time. For everyone who's saying that nothing could evolve to resist this, please look at Legionnaire's disease: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires'_disease http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires'_disease This is a disease which can be fatal, and is found in association with systems involving water, including hot water heaters. I'll grant you as much as you likely that you're unlikely to get this or that, what I'm cautioning against is the idea that you've found a silver bullet. You've never found a silver bullet against bacteria, and it's better to go into use of systems like these with that assumption. Thinking ahead to make "thoroughly rinse, clean, and dry this system at least once a week" part of the instructions for use as a precaution against bacteria isn't nay-saying, it could be quite valuable to the people we would have using systems like these in the future.

ibisum 12y ago
As long as good technology gets communicated well enough to be effectively applied, with real results, there is hope in the world. How we go about doing that, especially for life-destroying subjects such as these diseases, is a matter of great importance to mankind and is thus, alas, subject to all mankinds' cultures. Expressions of technological prowess mean nothing if the basics of human life, in the first place - the real rudimentary stuff, like: water, food, shelter - are nearly non-existent. Our only hope, is all I'm saying, is in our ability to cross all boundaries and communicate under extraordinary duress, nevertheless, with effective results. So I fully support your position. I'm encouraged by the community efforts being made to address this; there is, after all, a very large industrial powerhouse that can be directed towards these problems. If we see Ebola-bots on the horizon, better hope they're flying away and not getting closer, uh oh ..