(Grimshawl @ Aug. 24 2006,18:37)
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It does seem foolish, however the longer I have been exposed to socalled serious scientests and the scientific community at large the less such things surprise me. When I was in school science was a passion and I believed great things would come of our scientests, I mean by that the worlds or mankinds scientists, but the more I learned about the scientific community the less I believed this. They bicker and endlessly debate miniscule points and theories and often spend more time cutting down colleagues stature or credentials then actually making discoverys or progress in their own right.
Ah but the scientific process of debate and peer review is the best way human kind has yet found to actually make progress...
You may not love its style but really what else do you expect from 'chimpanzees 3.0?', which are ?99% genetically identical to chimpanzees 1.0 but featuring improved cortex size and opposable thumbs... ? 
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Perhaps once we start putting a few more memory and logic chips in our brains the debates won't take so long. ?However as I don't expect any of the monkey craziness to be edited out ?(it's what makes us human) ?things could take even longer ?
I am in the scientific community so I do recognise what you are talking about - I just think it goes along with any human endeavour. At least in science there are significant checks and balances to the usual primate politics...
Also, remember you are communicating with us on a computer designed by the scientific community, and that in 18 months computers will be twice as powerful as they are now. Same for most other branches of progress and technology. ?If it works and we don't have a better alternative... lets go with it, or come up with the better alternative ? 
