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People Explain Which Scientific Achievements They'd Like To See Before They Die

People Explain Which Scientific Achievements They'd Like To See Before They Die
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Advancements in science happen every day in every way.

But often it feels like we are still so far behind.

How have we not cured so many diseases?

Shouldn't we know more about space?

What is Jello really made of?

So much to ponder and understand.

Maybe one day.

We all have a bucket list of what we'd like to see cured or invented before our last breaths.

Let's discuss...

Redditor yoda2060wanted to discuss all the science that needs to be devoured before the sand runs out of the hourglass. They asked:

"What scientific achievement you would like to see before you die?"

Life is infinite and we'll never know everything that is possible. But let's dream of what could be...

Miracles

Mood Grandma GIFGiphy

"Cure for Alzheimer's. It sucks."

dmbgreen

New pieces...

"I want to see us grow hearts, kidneys, livers, etc... In labs and end the need for donations and waiting lists for transplants."

IMadeThisBullS*itUp

"I waited for a heart/bilateral lung transplant for over a year and I spent 8 months living in the hospital waiting for it. You’re basically waiting for someone to die."

"Which feels all kinds of wrong… but my therapist (all transplant patients sees a transplant therapist) kept reminding me that me needing a heart and lungs doesn’t cause someone to die…"

"And what made even harder was that my mom died of Covid about 5 weeks before my transplant happened. So while I was praying and hoping so hard my mom wouldn’t die… I was also praying for my transplant to happen. I had a lot of mixed and confusing feelings. My transplant happened last November."

Junebug1515

"Idiot Bottom Line"

"To build an environment friendly world."

deadprotocol_

"That depends entirely on how far you want to go with 'environmentally friendly.' Some amateurish pseudo-intellectuals will say that humanity itself is devastating the planet by it's very existence so we'll call that the 'Idiot Bottom Line."'

"So you have to find an acceptable level above that to declare environmentally friendly. For example can we still have hear exchangers? Space debris? Artificial Electromagnetic radiation? There has to be a level before you can declare such and so far no one agrees."

PoorPDOP86

“20 years, tops”

"Viable nuclear fusion."

AlterEdward

"Nuclear Astrophysicist here. I know the joke is that we been saying '20 years, tops' for 50 years now - who do you think came up with that joke? But seriously, we are really close."

"We need a reaction that is self-sustaining and puts out more energy than we put in. We can easily do a reaction that’s one or the other, just getting one that’s both is hard. And with recent updates to the Greenwald limit we found some relatively minor tweaks that doubles previous theoretical max output."

Gleeful-Nihilist

Deep Within

black hole animation GIF by rotomanglerGiphy

"Figuring out what Dark Matter is, solving the mysteries of black holes. Proper thorough investigation of our own oceans."

fIumpf

So far, so interesting. We have so much to learn.

let me dream...

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"Prosthetic limbs and organs that can work just as well as real ones. Affordably too. A cure for total nerve damage. Carbon neutral liquid fuel. FTL travel (let me dream)."

idonthaveanaccountA

Contact

"Making contact with another intelligent species in another solar system."

Pigs100

"That's probably not going to happen. I'd be overjoyed though if we discovered even just microbial life in the oceans of Europa or Enceladus. They'd be the first true extra-terrestrials ever encountered."

Cybyss

Going Places

"If we had teleports then we might also have other technologies integrated with it like instant dental work, instant food, instant surgery, things just unthinkable without the technology but before the steam engine travel was by horse so they could not imagine traveling cross country in any other way besides ships. Maybe with teleports we wouldn't need energy, just an infinite loop of the first spark."

Stickerdan

Sickness be gone...

"Cure for all cancer forms."

Kal-El1994

"I approached a nursing assistant with the question. They could describe it as trying to go after the stick of a lollipop. The treatments are mostly concerned with favors, not sticks. If they can discover a way to deal with the stick, then you may be able to treat cancer from there."

MissSara101

"I think it is important to add that there won’t be ONE cure to all cancers. Cancer is such a broad spectrum of diseases that sometimes have next to nothing in common. But hopefully we will keep getting the survival rates up with different medications for different cancer types."

TastyConsideration82

Simplicity

Get Ready Pain GIF by Rodney DangerfieldGiphy

"Solve back pain please. We can do crazy sh*t like nuclear bombs, new fancy vaccines and space exploration, yet we don't have a solution to one of the biggest and most common ailments that existed though all of humanity."

inksane

I want to see all of this happen! Fingers crossed.

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