Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Sometimes We Amaze Me
Yesterday we learned about the bravry of military chaplains.
In light of that I don't quite know what to make of this story about developing robots to perform combat field surgery remotely, thus reducing the risk to the life of a doctor. It's way cool technology, but I guess the whole altruistic nature of medicine has gone pretty much by the wayside.
Imagine shooting a bullet at a rapidly moving object 5000 miles away, and when the bullet gets close to the object, it throws a baseball at the object, knocking pieces off. The bullet then catches those peices, analyses them and radios the results back to you. That is either a scene forma cartoon, or an amazing technological feat. Well, we are doing just that in an upcoming close encounter with a comet. Dang, that's good shooting.
In light of that I don't quite know what to make of this story about developing robots to perform combat field surgery remotely, thus reducing the risk to the life of a doctor. It's way cool technology, but I guess the whole altruistic nature of medicine has gone pretty much by the wayside.
Imagine shooting a bullet at a rapidly moving object 5000 miles away, and when the bullet gets close to the object, it throws a baseball at the object, knocking pieces off. The bullet then catches those peices, analyses them and radios the results back to you. That is either a scene forma cartoon, or an amazing technological feat. Well, we are doing just that in an upcoming close encounter with a comet. Dang, that's good shooting.
