How long would it take for humanity to come up with an invention to escape death by cell failure?
That will destroy the balance of everything.It will be better if everyone could know the secret of birth and death.From where we have come, and to where we shall go, whether we have to come again or not..This knowledge will free us from both excitement of birth and agony of death, and we will be able to accept it with grace, and we'll be able to live and die peacefully.I think that will be the ultimate knowledge.It will be of greater importance, than that of invention of zero in mathematics.Obviously much much greater than cheating death.Cheating death will be like just passing with cheat papers. In near future, we will definitely understand our inability.Obtaining this knowledge will be like, even the professor will feel giving full marks is below par of the achievement.If we succeed, this will be our best work ever. EVER.Nothing could beat that.
New invention allows humans to live forever!?
Who would want to live forever....
Is the concept of the sin a human invention?
Yes - All animals kill, have intercourse, ignore superstitions like god, steel from their neighbors etc. They do it to survive. This included the human animal. About 10 to 15 thousand years ago, humans started to settle into communities because they started to farm. This led to the need to control some of the survival instincts. Thus rules were born. these are call morals. To make them easy to administer - invent and all seeing - ever present judged. This leaves you with a problem. You have declared that killing, stealing, uncontrolled intercourse is wrong, so how do u explain it when you need to raid a neighbor. Well you declare that your Judge is the right and only one, and the others are all evil. So now you have the right to destroy them. 10/15 '000 and its still happening now. By the way - sin comes from the latin for left handedness - the Roman thought it was bad to be lefthanded.
Why did it take so long to invent the wheel?
The wheel was not invented. When Egyptians or other Earlier civilisations were pushing rocks over slopes (hills and valleys), the object being pushed got wear and tear and over a long distance a rock turns into a spherical shape. With time a wheel evolved. Most of what people call inventions are actually gradual processes which eventually attain a state we call invention. Its very sad to go to school these days.
Why did it take so long for humans to develop the technology we have today?
Technological advancement doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Think about the process of growing into an adult. Why does that take so long? There are a lot of really unproductive years in there (more for some than for others). When I was born (although I don’t remember it all that well) all I could do was cry, sleep, eat and poop. Then I learned to smile. Then giggle. Then roll over. Then sit up. Then crawl. Then stand. Then walk. Do you see why it may have taken humanity a little bit of time to develop new things?We have a certain bank of knowledge and a certain amount of time in which to utilize that knowledge to progress and thus learn new knowledge unlocked by said progress. Advancements have to piggy-back on earlier technology - we can’t jump over certain discoveries on our trek through knowledge.When humans were primarily nomadic and “hunter-gatherer” it was difficult to progress much technologically because there was no set base of operations from which to store accumulated knowledge. Once we developed towns/cities we began to be able to accumulate and share knowledge with one another and people were able to devote their time to following a particular profession in more detail since there were farmers and tradesmen to take care of daily needs. Thus the role of scientist was born.Think about how much technology has developed in the past 50 years and how fast new developments are taking place. When I was born, color television was still in its early years and the sets were enormous. Now I have digitized color images on a device I can place in my pocket and use almost anywhere.Besides, it’s all relative. I would imagine that 50 years from now, barring any huge global catastrophe, a person like yourself (based on what will then be current technology) will be asking a similar question about why it took decades to get from color TV to smart phones in that latter half of the twentieth century.
Have humans run out of ideas to invent new things?
It has seemed that in my 50 years of following science and engineering, things happen in different cycles. Educators continuously teach that things are impossible, and then someone does the impossible. We have fewer "pure" scientists today. Bell Labs gave it's researchers year-long sabbaticals just to kick up their heels on the their desks and just think. We need more speculative scientists to be thinking, and not grant chasing!Science fiction has had a good record in giving us new ideas. In the movie 2001, A Space Odyssey, the astronauts were using a pretty good rendition of tablet computers to watch the news while they ate lunch.If innovation doesn't continue, then neither will civilization. Politics needs to be more motivated to innovate, and not continue to repeat history's errors.Let me go further. The Patent Office has gotten too stupid to be useful. I'll guarantee there are space elevator patents that will delay actually building one. I have had patents rejected because one small component is off-the-shelf. Too many good ideas end up not protected, and too many dumb ones protected because they are proposed by large companies. One of the worst things this economy is doing is making it hard to find angel investment for good ideas, and penalizing the angel investors that do make the right choices.With the country headed into socialism, there is no incentive to create something new- they'll just tax the crap out of it!OK. Just color me P****ed! Sorry for venting...
Why did it take so long for humans to discover things like technology and electricity?
First off people have to have food and shelter. So for about 10,000 years humanity focused on that. Next the world had about a 2000 years of war, exploration and empire. Once cities were established and people began to be educated and record their thoughts in word and picture science began make some progress. Another 1500 years before humanity figured out electricity. Then things really began cooking. The last 200 years the world has been semi stable in terms of war, health, and science. Fewer 'World Wars", better health care, clean water, plenty of food, education advances that lead to new inventions [instant communication, computers, cars, airplanes]. You're welcome.