Path: ...!npeer.as286.net!npeer-ng0.as286.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bill Sloman Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: OT: Where will it go? Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 13:53:57 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 02:54:09 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="25aae5c706b452963f3b6941b038c9aa"; logging-data="688794"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1825NBTutOW+V/4h80BVbpIBC3858mOF08=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:PyCflZMZQpurI42SH/CdEoYcJqg= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3249 On 13/03/2024 8:19 am, Cursitor Doom wrote: > On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:51:35 GMT, Jan Panteltje > wrote: > >> On a sunny day (Tue, 12 Mar 2024 12:22:32 +0000) it happened Cursitor Doom >> wrote in : >> >>> On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 05:50:48 GMT, Jan Panteltje >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Research sheds light on new strategy to treat infertility >>>> OHSU research advances technique to turn a skin cell into an egg; could help same-sex couples, others have children genetically >>>> related to both parents >>>> https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240308142739.htm >>>> >>>> Now where will it go? >>> >>> Read Huxley much? >> >> Did you mean Aldous Huxley? >> Never read about him or things he wrote, so google gave me his link: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley >> interesting, seems he got addicted in the end, wanted LSD on his deathbed? > > I don't believe it's possible to become addicted to LSD. Huxley wanted > it once again on his deathbed to make a horrible demise into something > special. Just for old times sake. > >> but I do recognize some things in his thinking.. >> Went trough similar things, never got addicted though always rationalize. >> Maybe my will is too strong >> My father used to say: Where there is a will there is a way. >> To go full circle to the skin and egg thing... may even become the normal >> But human + chicken egg? LOL Who knows. Anybody with more sense than Jan Panteltje - most people. > Huxley's work was *so* much more than The Doors of Perception. I > suggest you read Brave New World, then you'll see the relevance of my > initial comment. It's all about that future. It's not. "Brave New World" is a future imagined in 1932 by a clever man who didn't know all that much about anything specific. As prophecy it is risible. There were quite a few clever Huxley's. Aldous was one of the less clever ones. -- Bill Sloman, Sydney