off topic but i have to say it.

[Bruce]

They're working on genetic cures for those, and that was mentioned by Brian.
Gene technology isn't limited to congenitial diseases, either.  Things like
immune system supression would be a thing of the past, and that could mean a
normal life for organ transplantees.
Bruce



----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave" <bigg at adam.com.au>
To: <gmecm at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: off topic but i have to say it.


> What about the thousands of innocent people that die each year from
desieses
> such as HIV and cancer? $40B would be well spent there too
>
> Dave.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian L Massey <blocklm at juno.com>
> To: gmecm at diy-efi.org <gmecm at diy-efi.org>
> Date: Sunday, September 16, 2001 10:59 AM
> Subject: Re: off topic but i have to say it.
>
>
> >You know what burns me? We're (the US that is) about to spend $40B to
> >kill a bunch of cockroaches whose fervent 'religious' desire is to
> >transport the planet back a millenium, when Islam was briefly a world
> >power.
> >
> >We should be going to the planets, working on leveraging our knowledge of
> >gene technology to eradicate a host of congenital diseases, developing
> >new sources of non-greenhouse power and propulsion, etc. You know, things
> >a modern 21st century civilization should occupy itself with.
> >
> >Instead, we have to spend an enormous expense of heart-rending
> >tearsNsorrow & fire-fighting expense just to rid the world of the latest
> >backward regressive scourge.
> >
> >My only consolation at the moment is that since we have already probably
> >spent that much just trying to keep them at bay so we could concentrate
> >on better things, *this time*, man I am going to be really *pissed* if we
> >don't stomp those disgusting roaches into extinction.
> >
> >There are lots of interesting, beautiful creatures that are now teetering
> >on the brink of extinction, like the great whales and the Manatee for
> >example. We should be assisting them, instead of having to eradicate this
> >latest sub-humanoid pest. The whales and the Manatee strike me as far
> >more worthy of existence than these jihadick slime.
> >
> >That's what  really burns me. Time to get wise.
> >
> >Brian
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