Scientific Advances You'd Like to See in Your Lifetime

Eagles:

A mutation in humanity's immune systems that would allow us to better fight disease, and be less dependent on antibiotics and other treatments.

Maybe the ability to notice mutations in DNA etc. Or even create beneficial mutations.

A better understanding of DNA and mutations so gene therapy is more effective.

Adam Lazzara.:

Teleportation for me, but I doubt it

That would be awesome!

Mortmain.:

Finding out what exactly happened with the Big Bang.

Yes, exactly. I want to find out the truth.

And have the ability to travel to distant and close planets. And by distant, I mean out of this galaxy. I saw on a late night Universe documentary that there was a planet far, far, far away, and they showed it, and I thought they were kidding, because it looks just like Earth. I'd like to go there and see if there's any life there.

^ Can we handle the truth?

:shifty.

But still fusion power as it is the most likely possibility of the end of the power crisis because it runs on water.

And cars that are run on something that's not hydrogen. Hydrogen cars are baaad. Even that Honda Clarity. Sorry James May.

Yes we can.

Mortmain.:

Yes we can.

I think it would be a good experiment to tell the whole world that either:

1. God doesn't exist and there is nothing after death.
2. There is a God, actually so start dealing with it.

I don't think many would believe it. Somehow. :shifty

Hmm...what else?

Long life but never ever ever ever ever immortality.

I wouldn't be convinced either. You can't go around just telling people things, they're hardly going to say "Oh thanks miss, I wondered about that my whole life, good that you solved it for me."
No, to convince someone (at least me), you need good hard proof.

I'm against long life, we already have enough problems.

A house could move itself off from the ground.
A very big shield around the Earth as a substitute for the diseased ozone layer.
Television that can either be a PS game, computer, video telephone, and stuff.
We can deliver food through the phone. :shifty

^ Lol I love the last one. :XD

Procrastinator.:

A house could move itself off from the ground.
A very big shield around the Earth as a substitute for the diseased ozone layer.
Television that can either be a PS game, computer, video telephone, and stuff.
We can deliver food through the phone. :shifty

The last one reminded me of a dude at my uni who wants to make 'Taste-o-vision' so you can actually taste what people are making on TV.

The Doctor:

Procrastinator.:

A house could move itself off from the ground.
A very big shield around the Earth as a substitute for the diseased ozone layer.
Television that can either be a PS game, computer, video telephone, and stuff.
We can deliver food through the phone. :shifty

The last one reminded me of a dude at my uni who wants to make 'Taste-o-vision' so you can actually taste what people are making on TV.

That would be freaking awesome!

Would it be wrong of me to go all grammar nazi at this point at tell you that, gramatically, the title of this should be "What are some scientific advances that you would like to see in your generation?"?

A cure for diabetes - I want to be the one to develop it and win the noble prize for my efforts

Everybody's Fool:

The Doctor:

Procrastinator.:

A house could move itself off from the ground.
A very big shield around the Earth as a substitute for the diseased ozone layer.
Television that can either be a PS game, computer, video telephone, and stuff.
We can deliver food through the phone. :shifty

The last one reminded me of a dude at my uni who wants to make 'Taste-o-vision' so you can actually taste what people are making on TV.

That would be freaking awesome!

Would it be wrong of me to go all grammar nazi at this point at tell you that, gramatically, the title of this should be "What are some scientific advances that you would like to see in your generation?"?

Dude, the whole Taste-O-Vision thing would be amazing. I'd love to see how all the stuff on Bizarre Foods actually tasted. :shifty

I'd get so huge though, eating stuff through the TV.

I'd love a permanent cure for cancer.

The world's pretty good right now, if you ask me. But, having several third degree burns on my skin that people always ask about, I would really like to have some type of anti-fire thing that makes it inso nothing in the world expect wood and marshmallows in flamable. And something that forces people to forget they ever saw burns.

Of course, I'm also all for cures for cancer and other disaeases. But maybe not. That teaches us to be thankful. I know I sound heartless, but I'm really not.

^I get what you are saying about the cancer thing...But I still think a cure would make a lot of people so much happier. Can you imagine the amounts of families that could be spared so much pain if a cure was found?

It would be wonderful :cute:

Everyone seems to concentrate on illness and diesase but there is a huge energy crisis on the horizon.

'Mon the fusion power!

I hate when people say a cure for cancer - you do realise that cancer is just a general, catch-all term for any disease characterised by uncontrolled proliferation of cells? There will never be one cure for cancer, there are just too many presentations/causes/progression, you would need to concentrate on one an find a cure for that. If you can do that then go for it!

sunset boulevard:

I want to see a cure for multiple sicknesses, like the common cold. =P

Scientists are getting closer to finding the cure for the common cold. They mapped out the rhino virus, which causes it, to understad it better and all that fun stuff. But I think there's more than one strain of it, so....I don't know. :shifty But it's a virus, a virus isn't considered a living organism, and that's why there's no cure for it. You can't kill something that's not alive. :shifty

I'd like to see cars that no longer need gasoline! Which is possible, but the hybrids are expensive. :cheese:

I think teleportation would be awesome. :shifty

The Master.:

Sonic screwdrivers.

I need to put up a lot of shelves.

OH and vortex manipulators.

And Laser screwdrivers.

And laser spanners.

Don't forget TARDISes. I so want one of those.

Silent hoovers. Silent hairdriers. Silent cars.
Computers that don't die of old age.

An HIV/AIDS vaccine.

Either that or some kind of magical button that instantaneously disarms all the world's nukes.