Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note

Re:Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note by mLuby on Sunday September 01, 2019 @04:07PM (#20854536)

All attempts to cure aging have been magic/religion-based until very recently. Also it's not like we "learned to fly" as if cavemen could have done it had they only known the right wing shape and arm technique. It was only possible because of an accumulation of industrial and scientific knowledge.

Significant life extension will likely be built off the same accumulation of knowledge, not some rainforest frog extract the ancients could have refined. The only way I can imagine we don't have this in 1000 years is if someone's nuke finger gets twitchy.

Want to accelerate research? Make "The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant" required reading/watching for all schoolchildren: https://youtu.be/cZYNADOHhVY (That this might be controversial is itself interesting.)

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Re:Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note by Retric on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:22PM (#20855001)

“Chinese experimented with small hot air balloons for signaling from as early as the 3rd century BCE.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_air_balloon

Yet, for the first person to ride a hot air balloon took ~2000 years in 1783. Some of this came down to advances in material science, but far less than you might think.

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