This is my first time using Bloggers post-dated system. I know I was looking forward to it at first, but I guess I never got around to it.
I just thought I'd remind you all that we've been through this sort of thing before.
Western Religion's Genesis
Benefit: Eating delicious forbidden fruit of knowledge!
Risk: Eternal damnation!
1800s - Vaccinations
Benefit: Curing diseases!
Risk: Spreading the end-all plague!
1960s - Nukes
Benefit: Blowing up dirty commies!
Risk: Blowing ourselves up in the process!
2000 - The Y2K Bug
Benefit: Free space on early computers by using two-digits for the year in dates!
Risk : What comes after 99 on a Bank's computer?
Benefit: No more global warming!
Risk: The Earth spins into space!
2008 - LHC
Benefit: Make a super-cool black hole!
Risk: Sucking ourselves in a super-cool black hole!
2054 - Cyborg Implants
Benefit: Chainsaw arms are better than real arms!
Risk: Oops! We're all robots!
--
D. Phillips
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