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[Heavensrun]

killersinc wrote...

But current humanity is within a 100 years, and that is being conservative in my assessment. It is down right insulting to think that humans are the only race of critical thinking. We invented the Carrier class ship because humans are more inventive. We messed with who knows what else. The mass effect universe is still growing.

So...You are an expert on nanotechnology, then?  Who's to say we'll ever actually develop that kind of technology?  It might turn out to be a dead end.  Or it may raise too many ambiguous philosophical questions, or make people uncomfortable. (If Nanotech can cure my viruses, what else can it do to me that I might -not- want?)

It's also possible it might work fine as you say, but be prohibitively expensive for widespread use.  And even if we could develop that kind of nanotech in a hundred years, who's to say the same kind of thing is possible for quarians, who's bodies operate on a completely different chemistry than ours?

Honestly, even if your point is valid, anybody who actually has a background in science knows full well that every sci-fi series out there is riddled with impossible concepts and inconsistencies.  We just have to accept that sometimes the drama of the story has to take precedent over the scientific accuracy.

In short, you're thinking too much.

[atheelogos]

kraze07 wrote...

atheelogos wrote...

kraze07 wrote...

atheelogos wrote...

kraze07 wrote...

Tech and medicine go hand in hand, but only to a certain extent.

Are you saying we shouldn't take it too far?

Well then I must say I'm in complete disagreement. I think we should take it to the extreme.

WTF? My bad. That last post of mines wasn't supposed to be blank text. I had said that having amazing technology doesn't automatically equal amazing medicine. A nation for example could be one of the most technologically advanced in the world, but unless they've had people specifically researching advances in medicine then their medical field would be lacking.

I hear ya buddy your right just because you have one doesn't mean your guaranteed the other, but I will say that if you have "amazing technology" it makes extremely probable that you'll have good medicine.

[atheelogos]

Heavensrun wrote...

killersinc wrote...

But current humanity is within a 100 years, and that is being conservative in my assessment. It is down right insulting to think that humans are the only race of critical thinking. We invented the Carrier class ship because humans are more inventive. We messed with who knows what else. The mass effect universe is still growing.

So...You are an expert on nanotechnology, then?  Who's to say we'll ever actually develop that kind of technology?

You do know nanotech already exist right?

[xI extremist Ix]

I don't remember the article, but someone has created synthetic cells that under go mitosis. It has a complete DNA strand and all of that stuff. And that was in 2009.

[killersinc]

Heavensrun wrote...

killersinc wrote...

But current humanity is within a 100 years, and that is being conservative in my assessment. It is down right insulting to think that humans are the only race of critical thinking. We invented the Carrier class ship because humans are more inventive. We messed with who knows what else. The mass effect universe is still growing.

So...You are an expert on nanotechnology, then?  Who's to say we'll ever actually develop that kind of technology?  It might turn out to be a dead end.  Or it may raise too many ambiguous philosophical questions, or make people uncomfortable. (If Nanotech can cure my viruses, what else can it do to me that I might -not- want?)

It's also possible it might work fine as you say, but be prohibitively expensive for widespread use.  And even if we could develop that kind of nanotech in a hundred years, who's to say the same kind of thing is possible for quarians, who's bodies operate on a completely different chemistry than ours?

Honestly, even if your point is valid, anybody who actually has a background in science knows full well that every sci-fi series out there is riddled with impossible concepts and inconsistencies.  We just have to accept that sometimes the drama of the story has to take precedent over the scientific accuracy.

In short, you're thinking too much.

Sorry to break it to you but we are already using "inactive" nanites on cancer. What they do is shoot silver constructs at the tumor and it slows the growth of the tumor. That is far from the tiny machines that can think for themselves but we are getting there. We are also using nanites in cloths so they will not stain when you spill stuff on them. Only bad part of that is the nanites do not stay on the cloths and get absorbed by your body. I know that I might have been over thinking this but I can't imagine a race of great builders wouldn't try to fix their immune system problems. I mean they could try to hire someone out to fix it. I hear the humans in this game are really smart at everything they touch.

[Sigma Tauri]

atheelogos wrote...
Humans do this all the time. Thats really the core of what technology is. To go beyond what is physically possible.

What?