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Permalink Reply by James Cox on February 19, 2013 at 12:23am

Maybe global warming will be a motivator for many of us to jump ship(earth)?

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Permalink Reply by James Cox on February 19, 2013 at 11:46pm

I just wish the 'get out and push' would help....LOL 

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Permalink Reply by Rob Lippmann on February 17, 2013 at 4:17pm

I also didn't get into gamma ray radiation which is virtually impossible to defend against in any practical way.

At least their food will never spoil.

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on February 17, 2013 at 5:12pm

Neither will their corpses. LOL

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Permalink Reply by Belle Rose on February 17, 2013 at 6:32pm

Visit Roswell New Mexico some day for a laugh. I'm willing to bet the majority of that 36% live in that town, LOL... They have all the "evidence" you need to become a believer. It will having you rolling on the floor laughing with tears coming out of your eyes. And yes, the people TRULY do believe that UFO's exist so be careful how you laugh with ridiculity.

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Permalink Reply by Kairan Nierde on February 18, 2013 at 1:35am

No. Nope. Nada.

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on February 20, 2013 at 9:28am

I still haven't read anything that trumps the technological advance that happened during my grandmother's lifetime, when transportation leaped from horse and buggy to space travel.

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Permalink Reply by Gregg R Thomas on February 20, 2013 at 10:25am

Mapping the human genome in biology is/was a quantum leap.

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on February 20, 2013 at 11:09am

That it may be, but it's not of much interest to the average person yet because it's just something we know, it's not something that's become part of our everyday lives outside academia. I still think my grandmother's generation experienced the greatest technological changes in their lifetime. Horse-drawn transportation to a man on the moon is hard to beat. She also saw her world go from lantern light and gaslight to nationwide electrification, with all of the changes that brought with it. When  she was a child, there wasn't even radio. A handwritten letter would take weeks to go from coast to coast. When she died, with airmail, a letter could go coast to coast in a day and through the miracle of the telegram, information could go almost anywhere in the civilized world almost instantaneously.

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Permalink Reply by Gregg R Thomas on February 20, 2013 at 8:10pm

Not to be too critical but it is unlikely that a satisfactory example can be provided to your question since the parameters of what would be needed to provide that answer are unclear.

For example: "greatest technological changes" means what?

By what measure? Starting from what basis? Who decides?

You said a couple of things above that seem to me to be contradictory;

"part of our everyday lives"

"greatest technological changes in their lifetime"

you give as an example the changes in transportation ie. buggy to space craft.

So I feel compelled to consider how much of that "technological change" your grandmother experienced as a "part of her everyday life".

Am I correct that she was not an astronaut and had no direct experience with space flight?

I would venture to say that the biggest effect on most of her generation in their "everyday life" was going from buggy to automobile, correct?  For some maybe from flying in a prop driven plane to flying in a jet propelled plane.

These are indeed big changes but are they the "greatest technological changes" every to occur in "any" generation?

In my generation and yours we have seen in communication far greater technological advancements by orders of magnitude over what her generation experienced in transportation.

So without objective conditions/requirements to measure and test I see no way anyone can provide you with a satisfactory example that would sway you from your position.

Respectfully,

Gregg

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