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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Homicidal Robot Human

             Some days I just sit in my thinking spot and think, “Self, if you were confronted by an insane psychopath, would you rather them be very flamboyant about how much they wanted to kill you and reveled in the pain that they dealt, whether it be to themselves or to you, or would it be better for them to be cold and emotionless without feeling pain?” Yeah, trust me, I am taking therapy from a couple of people, just in case that was what you were wondering. Well, this is brought up because of this article, which tries to explain why humans find robots innately creepy and then tries to play down that fear, and please note, a couple of the pictures in there are kind of creepy. If I saw one of those pictures in the middle of the night, I guarantee that I would lose it, and once you see it, you will know exactly what I mean. I mean, sure I am in the robotics club at my school, but non humanoid robots do not creep me out, but instead it is the human ones.

            As this article states, the creepiest things about human robots is the fact that they do not actually look too far off from being human, but it is always that slight difference that throws us off. Probably because of humans natural tendency to judge people based on their difference from what the judger is. Seriously guys, I am in high school, there is absolutely no way you can tell me I am wrong on that, I see it happen like twelve times a minute. This also reminds of the Salem Witch Trials long ago, where people would burn witches because they survived being tied up and thrown in a lake, and obviously this was not that fair to the people, but did the “jury” care? No.

            Although I am scared of robots only slightly not looking human, I really would rather them keep it like that because if they looked completely human, I would be even more scared and probably extremely paranoid while I was at it. Just stop and think about it, homicidal maniacs and murderers look the same as the rest of the humans, but they at least can feel pain. If a robot were to malfunction and go on a rampage, it would be difficult to stop it, because they do not feel pain, and cannot really guarantee their death unless a robot were to be smashed to bits. Later on, as human technology advances with reinforced metals on robots, it would be hard to take them down, even with an EMP, or possibly a nuke. The problem with the EMP is that humans have been developing other sources of electricity in case something like that would happen. The problem with the nuke is the fact that, well, they do look almost exactly like humans, so what? Nuke all humans to make sure the robots are dead? A robot apocalypse might be worse than a zombie apocalypse.

Monday, October 28, 2013

If it ain't broke, Don't fix it

            It may not seem important now, but this is the future happening right here. Scientists can now determine a person’s ethnicity just from the bacteria inside their mouth, or, you know, they could look at the skin color, but that would just be too easy. Congratulations America, this is what your tax money is being spent on. With this new discovery, people who like white but really are not, can be even more racially profiled than they ever were before. Of course this is not all that bad, because now, scientists know that there are different types of bacteria in a person’s mouth and so are able to use different medicines to address different issues.

            I really do have to admit that I was being kind of unfair in my first assertion in the previous paragraph. I really do not know what I was thinking. A leopard cannot and most likely will not be able to change its spots, unless it goes through some deeply intensive therapy. Like I said, or meant in the badly created metaphor, just because there is a new way to identify different ethnicities, it should not matter too much, because the people who were going to judge people based on their ethnicity before, probably will not change their opinion on them even if new evidence comes out or laws declaring against it. I do appreciate the fact that instead of using race, this article does use ethnicity, because as one of my teachers said, “Race is not a real thing, only ethnicity, so you can’t be racist, only ethnicist,” Yeah, as you can see, I had wonderful teachers throughout my academic career. Although, even though I said it was another way to profile a person from above, this really is not all that accurate, a whopping 62% which, if I got that on a test, I would be disappointing my family. It also does not give specific ethnicities, only the general area, like not Ethiopian, but African, not Japanese, but Asian.

            At first glance to me, it seems like experimenting even further in depth with some of the bacteria found in different people’s teeth, seems helpful since it is a new scientific breakthrough, and would help scientists a lot in their beneficiary practices. Then, I started to wonder, if we have already come this far with little to no trouble, why we should then try to change it. Like many a people have said, “If it isn’t broke, then don’t fix it,” This has not been all over the news, about how bacteria is killing people, and if it has not reached that level of importance, then I guess it should not be important enough to acknowledge, according to a majority of people I talk to.

Friday, October 25, 2013

MC Quant Is in the House!

            Some people just do not think that learning and playing go together. I am here to tell you that those people are absolutely right, unless you are one of those genius freak outcasts that think learning is fun. Well, let me rephrase that, school is not fun, but learning is. A new mod on Minecraft allows the player, or Steve, to mess with quantum physics. I mean, if I had a choice between either Minecraft or a physics textbook, it would most definitely be Minecraft.

            Of course, like all simulations, they do not flawlessly represent the actual thing, but this is pretty close, and it gives freedom of movement and basically freedom to do whatever someone wants to do. It is much better than the constricted boundaries that school gives you, high school for that matter, and instead it allows a person to freely explore their boundaries. This, I believe teaches much better than restrictions, because when babies are first born, they do not know the rules of the world as soon as they escape from the womb. Instead, they learn through exploration and interaction of the objects surrounding them. In fact, one of the reasons some kids learn so much, is because of the freedom of their actions, of course, it is then strictly inhibited once they get into school with heavy regimented policies and mistakes everywhere.

            Another reason that this is a great idea is that somebody actually gave a thought to furthering education. Other games are all about fun and money and drugs and sex and stuff and more and more and more! Not saying that those games do not have low moral standards, actually I am, they are also not educational and only teach reflexes while also reinforcing the will to buy the sequel, because, "WHEE! It is an exciting game, the sequel can only be better!"

            Then again, if one would look at it from the gamer's point of view, this makes an immensely more exciting game, because now it is based upon whether or not a series of events has been completed yet, and only when these events are completed do the results happen. It would be great for computer programmers too because their programming is strictly regimented and if one thing is not completed than the whole thing falls apart, it is actually pretty depressing to be honest. Then again, anything that wastes time is depressing like watching a couple movies of a sparkling vampire.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Living on Cloud 9

          Technology is becoming more and more important in modern times, and soon humans probably will not even be able to function without it. Of course, it is not like this innovation makes it seem any better, but it is a pretty cool idea. Have you ever looked at a piece of technology and just thought, “I know there is going to be a better version of this, but I need it now!” Yeah, instant gratification, a very large part of human nature. Well, this new idea makes it so that everyone can save thousands of dollars, not even exaggerating right now, on new pieces of technology, but as happy as it makes us consumers, the business owners would have to be at least slightly miffed by this.

            With this, nobody has to ever worry about not saving anything or not having a file saved. Well, now it is completely based around the cloud system, and so updates are sent wirelessly. This means that everything now can become a computer, like a television, everything would be connected. Of course, I really do not like this too much. For instance, my school has apparently given us this cloud program so people are able to leave flash drives at home, but they work about as much as I do. I am currently unemployed, which means I do not have a job, and so do not do anything. AP Chemistry is a fairly difficult class, and we have to write a lab report that is a couple of pages long. One time, I had a lab report almost completed, but was saved on a couple of tablets, so we had to either save it to our student, flash, or cloud drive. To say the least, I forgot my flash drive, and my student drive is not that useful at home, so I decided to give this cloud drive a chance and let it work its magic. It just did not. I got the first page, but the others were lost in cyberspace.

            The other reason I find this idea a particularly bad idea is that an EMP, electro-magnetic pulse, which knocks out every electrical functioning thing in a certain radius. These would end up being the bane of our country. The government could easily use it to subdue people, and people would have no way of communicating. I am sure most of you think this is stupid, but if you heard your loved one got shot and wanted to know if he or she was okay, and the government would not let you call them, because you were an anarchist, it would make many people angry. I mean, having every single thing someone owns online and no tangible proof that it exists? Thinking that will be sufficient proof is almost like a mental disease and tosses common sense out the window.

Monday, October 21, 2013

Warning! This is Not A Fun-Gi (Guy)

           Has anyone watched Contagion? It is about this virus thing that kills off people in the strangest way possible, through bubbling through the teeth and having a seizure. The first time it happens, it is actually quite scary and leaves a person with a kind of shaky feeling about it. The creepiest thing about it though, is that it honestly is not quite far off from what could actually happen. In fact, frogs have the same immune system as us, or at least close to it, but are being afflicted with a hostile pathogen that these frogs seem to not be able to fight off. It is pretty gruesome because this article shows that this fungus infiltrates their body then just kind of shuts everything down, making the frogs really lethargic and basically crawl out of the water and just die because they cannot find any food to eat.

            This is just like the zombie apocalypse. Imagine that these were humans, humans who have strange growths out of them and drag themselves across the floor with their hands. Imagine one lying on the floor, incredibly hungry, incredibly lethargic, but knows it needs food. Now imagine accidentally leaving a door open, and as someone crosses a dark threshold, one darts out and latches on eating, because it is not that far out of range. Creepy, is it not? One of the reasons that I brought up Contagion is because this virus has been around these frogs for about ten years, and yet this is the first time anyone has obtained a clue or an inkling of what is actually going on, and why it cannot combat it. We may not have a clue, or may not even care, because all humans think they are better than anything else, including other humans.

Of course, if this virus ever spreads to humans, we are probably screwed, us internet folk, because we are lethargic enough without anyone else’s help. Then again by the time we figure out it could spread to humans, people will research like madmen in order to “preserve the human race” when animals die every day of unknown diseases, which do not affect the human race, and so they are inconsequential. Have any of them never heard of the canary in the coal mine analogy? We, humans, basically depend on animals to survive. If a polar bear with its large amounts of fur, dies in the arctic of hypothermia, it says something about the arctic. Inversely, if a camel dies of thirst in the Saharan Desert, it starts to say something about the livability of the desert.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Some People Just Know How To Celebrate Christmas

            Has anyone had one of those teachers where they divide the class up into separate groups depending on when their birthday was? No? Just me? Okay. Anyway, in one of my classes, we would, for some reason, have a large abundance of people born in September in the class, and so my teacher made a comment, "Wow, some of your parents really knew how to celebrate Christmas," which caused the class to burst into hysterics obviously. See, if hamsters had the same gestation period as humans, there would be no hamsters born in the fall months, because hamsters apparently have this gene in them which controls their reproductive capabilities, and so it shuts them off during the winter months. If you are into this kinda stuff, I know I am, it gives a more detailed explanation in this article.

            Think of how much the world population would go down if people were limited with this gene. That would be three or more months, all depending on the groundhogs, of not reproducing and conservation of energy and thus, money. Do not get me wrong on this, I really do not think that people are a waste of time and a severe drain on resources, well most of them anyway, and it is worth it to raise them, but I would not like to see the human race self destruct all because some people just get a little more "festive" during holiday seasons. Unfortunately, we do not have this gene, and unless some people want to injected with hamster DNA or have everyone reproduce with a hamster until we successfully insert this gene into every human, it probably will not be that possible. Another choice is to dip a hamster in radioactive material then have it bite a person which they can obtain most of the hamster's DNA and mix it with theirs. Afterwards he or she can proceed to save the world with its other useless compatriots, Aquaman and Squirrel Girl.

            Actually, I really wrote this because I find the abilities kind of impressive, I mean, us humans cannot really tell the season if we stand outside with our eyes closed, but these hamsters can internally distinguish between seasons. Although, a reason that we do not have this is we really do not need it, but it still would be kind of nice to have more energy to do stuff during the holidays instead of "celebrating" but other than that, I do not really have a clue about its significance. It did clear up something that was unknown before, but nothing really important that everyone wants to know, such as "Do aliens exist?" or "What does the fox say?"
            

Friday, October 18, 2013

Fabulous Rainbow Powers, ACTIVATE!


            As you are reading this right now, have you ever wondered about what the Wi-Fi signals, which are emanating from random places, you are using actually looked like? Well it is just speculation and it has no guarantee that this is what they actually look like, but the speculation makes them look fantastic, like Neo-Space from Yu-Gi-Oh or Confusion in the Pokemon games. I mean, it is really the only way to describe these waves, because it really looks like something out of a fantasy. Please note that the rainbow colors are pretty much there for aesthetic reasons.

            Scientists are wondering about how they can actually determine what they look like, and it kind of confuses me. There is only like a certain spectrum of light that all types of waves fall under, hey look, chemistry actually came in handy outside of chemistry, and this is amazing in itself. Seriously though, we know why the sky is blue and reasons why rainbows exist, and all types of waves and their lengths, including what they look like. Infrared waves, Ultraviolet waves, and microwaves, we know what they all look like, but when it comes to Wi-Fi signals, all of our learning has gone straight down the toilet drain, kind of like our tax money and my hopes and dreams. I mean, honestly, in the big picture of everything, it does not matter all that much, even I cannot think of ways it could be used, unless people want to find optimal spots for a Wi-Fi hotspot, or wanted to make a movie about how we are slowly dying because of our proximity to it, which would not make too bad of a storyline. It would be better than another certain movie with sparkling vampires, and it would be more colorful and interesting that would consist of much of the color spectrum than a movie consisting of fifty different shades of gray.

                Once these waves are located though, another important problem is, “What if these Wi-Fi signals are harmful to humans, or have a wavelength that is detrimental to the environment?” I really would like to say people would boycott it and force the distributors to shut it down, but seriously though, I highly doubt anyone with a computer is going to do anything, I mean, people already knowingly kill the environment. Knowing that a person’s favorite form of entertainment is harming the environment, it will be the same thing every time, everyone does this, do not even lie about it, we are going to say, “That is someone else’s problem,” This is the natural course of human thinking, even our government.

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Scorpions be Climbing in the Windows, Snatching Up Everyone, So Hide Yo Kids, Hide Yo Wife


            One of my worst nightmares has been giant spiders creeping around my bedroom, or creeping around anywhere for that matter, or even a swarm of small spiders invading. In case none of you have noticed yet, I do have arachnophobia to a fairly high degree. Although, I kind of found out that when people say arachnids, they do not necessarily mean spiders, in fact, scorpions are a type of arachnid. Recently, some people have discovered the genomes of the scorpions and have isolated some of them that allow scorpions to become immune to their own poison. It actually sounds a lot like our own immunity to stomach acid, I guess not so much immunity as it is mucous covering it. Even though it does not mention a lot of uses for it in the article, I can only begin to imagine the effects it could have on our society.

            The first obvious one coming to my mind, due to the fact that I am a nerd or a geek if you prefer, which is implementing the couple poison genes from scorpions into humans and mixing it with the DNA of humans. Imagine the beneficial effects of this before you start to judge me. Scorpions contain some fairly toxic compounds within their bodies without much adverse effects to themselves, and since they have built up this huge immunity to many poisonous substances, so scorpions are able to ingest many poisonous plants and animals. Imagine, being the reckless teenager that I am, challenging a classmate to a contest to prove your worth, and then walking into the room and to intimidate the opposition, bring a bottle of Clorox and just downing the bottle while munching on some mistletoe as a snack. This would be extremely hardcore and cool that if I saw someone do that, they would immediately become my best friend. In reality, this would help some of the hunger issues, because it would open a whole new window of possibilities.

            On the other hand, this could also be very harmful to people to, although it is a bit farfetched, at least hear me out before you write it off as stupid. With the genomes of these toxins found, it would be easy for someone to just mass produce them, and instead of having Spiderman, we would have Scorpionman, who shoots poison from his fingertips, although, if we figure out the immunity thing, it will not be much of a problem. Even without the immunity thing, the same could be said about finding the antidotes to these poisons, of course, if we have not already. Knowing the compounds in a scorpion and how it combats it will help scientists figure out a couple new ways to combat new poisons.

Monday, October 14, 2013

Peanut Butter Jelly Time!


            Wow, looks like some people’s paychecks are about to go on the decline. This new test works apparently well with people who have brains that are going through constant regression, like in “Flowers for Algernon”, by using a much easier and cheaper way than going to a medical professional. Well, I do not suggest making one of your own tests and refuse to bring one of your grandparents to a doctor, just because he or she can smell peanut butter from a couple meters away. The doctors have gotten a degree in their degree of study. (Very much like one of our own professionals with a Ph. Qi right? Who me? Nah, you must be mistaken.)

            This test was first meant for people with mental regression, mainly Alzheimer’s disease, and does not help with other kinds of brain diseases, such as dementia, and it has been shown also because some of the effects that people with Alzheimer’s disease had during testing did not happen to the regular people who have not had any cognitive decline yet. I still think it could use a bit more testing, because something as light as this, I think, would not call for extreme in depth testing and making sure that it works. Sure, once people hear of this method, I can nearly guarantee that people will attempt to use it, but I do not truly believe that they will not go to a doctor to either support or prove the method wrong.

            It would not be too bad of an idea even if it ended up not working, because it was a fantastic idea and extremely innovative, which I think can be easily improved upon to make it apply to other diseases or mental issues, mostly because the qualities and smells that peanut butter gives off is very unique and would easily be able to test many things. Just make sure it does not test your stupidity in taking the peanut butter challenge. I really think it could be used on other people with concussions for a quick diagnosis to see which procedure should be taken. Like most preliminary tests, it would not be the final verdict, but it is always easier and safer to do something once someone knows what has actually happened or is just generally pointed in the right direction. Even if they are pointed in the wrong direction, it would not be that much farther off from where he or she started.

Friday, October 11, 2013

The Knock Knock (No-Bell) Peace Prize


                I am almost completely sure that most of you science nerds, yes that is including myself, or anyone that just pays attention to the news would know all about the Nobel Peace Prize just awarded to a coalition of people who work together to take apart chemical weapons, but just in case you have not, you can see a summary of it here. There were many contenders for this, including a girl who was shot in order to protest women’s education. The scientific part of this though is how these people actually plan to get these weapons of mass destruction destroyed, and keep in mind, not everyone fully appreciates them.

                One of the largest concerns for me in disposing of chemical weapons is what kind of effects will it have on the surrounding environment. Think about it, these are chemicals that can easily kill many people, what could it possibly do to the environment. This organization always says “dispose of these chemicals” but it is not always as easy as that. It is not really like they can go into whatever country they want and just pick up all the chemicals and dump them into the ocean either. Of course, in order to dispose of weapons of mass destruction, because they are extremely dangerous to human health and are immoral, it thus makes obvious sense for our government to force Syria to disable their chemical warfare programs. If you could not tell, that was extreme sarcasm used in that previous sentence. To put this action in other terms, it is like if your house is made wood, and a small portion of it catches on fire, would you use Greek fire, which burns nearly everything, to burn out the fire? Obviously not.

                Although I am not trying to be extremely critical of this group, it kind of makes me think that what they are doing is not that important in the grand scheme of things, because even a Syrian criticized them. To continue the previous comparison, it would be tantamount to a town with only one fire truck going to put out a fire on the far east side of town in completely metal houses, while a fire is rages on the west side of town demolishing wooden houses. This may seem critical of me, but I really do understand the intent of their actions and that they could be extremely significant in the long run. Remember kids, one million begins with one, so although something small, like a random act of kindness does not seem like much, it could be all someone really needs. 

Thursday, October 10, 2013

"Muddy Water"

            Explosive diarrhea, rushing everywhere, spraying everything inside the toilet, unable to scrape it off, because it is impossible to get off the toilet, because of the severe diarrhea. Hopefully none of you readers were eating anything during that description, but I am pretty sure you will all be glad to learn that thanks to some of these scientists, it may just be a thing of the past. I do not know how many of you know what causes diarrhea, but it is actually a virus called Norovirus, how creative right, and now have developed a mostly effective vaccine against it.

            As much as people think that water coming out of one’s rear end in spams is disgusting, it is not too extreme or severe, although it is given that 800 people die per year and is probably very uncomfortable for people, there are many more long term projects that would reap better rewards overall. These would only be short term rewards, it is very hard to imagine any long term rewards. Given that we could save 800 people a year, and not trying to sound harsh or anything, but the world as a whole could easily replace that many people in a matter of minutes, and that just shows that some people may need to get a hobby to do, and no Patrick, mayonnaise is not a hobby.

            I do see the short term goal that this provides which could possibly lead to a longer term goal. Many people obtain this virus on cruises, and since many people are congested together, the virus would spread relatively quickly. This would cause many people to become upset and thus hurt the cruise ship business, so if these people were to sell their vaccine to the cruise ship owners who could distribute them, or sell them to hospitals, where worried people could obtain them, for a small fee of course.

            This vaccine does reduce most of the virus’s effects, but if anyone has learned anything about the nature of viruses, is that they are extremely quick to adapt to whatever method is employed against them, and will probably mutate into just a slightly different form than a previous one to avoid a person’s immunity against them. Therefore, like many other vaccines, and depending on how quickly this virus adapts to the vaccine, it may be reconsidered whether the monetary value of the result was worth the cash value put in to the vaccine.

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Space: How would you like to die?


                I decided to major in something relating to Science in college, of course after I graduate high school. The problem with this, though, is that I have always worried about what if things might go wrong. I then stumbled upon this article, and although it is not exactly a conventional safety thing, due to the fact that it is in space and not Earth, but it still makes one wonder about the risks of going into science industry. Astronauts are actually the physical part of the trade, but then it makes me worried, even though they say they have not yet lost anyone due to randomly floating off, because the scientists do not seem to care too much that they do not have that many recovery procedures.

                It was always one of my childhood fears to randomly float away, like gravity disappears and then I randomly float off into the atmosphere where I would just slowly suffocate and die. I know, it is pretty irrational, but as everyone knows, children have no sense of logic, and are really not that smart, since their prefrontal cortex is still not fully developed. Well, back to safety concerns, this article makes a mistake seem so horrible and dramatic. The last line just completely throws me off and feels depressed for the rest of the day. It cannot be that hard to create some sort of recovery procedure, I mean it is possible to lose two astronauts this way, but it really should be worth it to try.

                Whatever happened to, “Your safety is our biggest concern!” they say all the time in elementary, middle, and high school. Yeah, maybe if the government would put a little more funding into protect the people who might die. Well, it sounds really easy I guess, but it should be pretty impossible considering the government is not doing much right now, I wonder why? Oh yeah, it got shut down. There used to be a space shuttle that could actually save the astronauts too, but it was retired. I just do not understand the goal behind it, sure they could save some money, or they could save some people. I also just find space an extremely dangerous place, and why we want explore it with actual people is far beyond me. All in all, I really do not think we should be out in space with humans, or any living being for that matter, until we have a safe and guaranteed method of retrieval for them.

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Hashtag Yolo Right? Shoot Me for Saying It, but Read the Blog First


               This post is something off the normal basis, but still stays within the loosely termed realms, is all about video games. Specifically, with the release of Grand Theft Auto 5, the ones that give you free reign over the video game area. Although, it is usually these kinds of games that adults complain about that give kids ideas about killing and how it has no consequences in games. Not for so much longer, this person invented a new type of game that actually has consequences, called DayZ.

                The idea behind it is simple, and yet I find it ingenious, though also very annoying at points. This would be an online game, where people have to survive with other people, but once a person dies, he or she must completely restart the game, so if one person kills someone else, then that one person will just have the knowledge that he or she just ended someone’s life and that one person has to now completely start over from the beginning. It may not seem like much at first, but if the person has any morals left, I am sure it will kind of haunt them for a bit. This game does probably seem tedious to start a new game at first, but the purpose is so the person knows what it feels like starting all over and will probably think before killing next time. It is these games that are not exactly educational, but teach life lessons about the value of life, unlike many other games these days.

                I know what some of you are probably thinking, but if you are not, well you will be, “What about the people who go on killing sprees because they feel like it?” Well, if that happens, I am most certain that many of the players in the community will develop a hatred for him or her and eventually will take them down. The other option is, if the community does not start a hate chain against it first, the game creators will then take a copy of the avatar being played and return fire on them. This, I believe, would be traumatizing due to the fact that it would be oneself causing one’s demise. I can somewhat relate to the feeling of it. I believe it would be tantamount to break an arm or leg because of my own stupidity. An example from my life, though not as traumatic as it may seem but trust me that it was, is when I “forget” to study, okay more like didn’t want to, then knowing nothing on the test, and afterwards realizing it was I, not anyone else, that caused my own demise.

                This is a great video game idea, and I can only hope the players do not have a toxic personality towards each other, otherwise it may defeat the overall purpose of the game. It gives the meaning of life back to video games and is a refreshing twist on video game play styles in general.

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

3 Robots Walk in a Bar, Which Do You Feel Comfortable Around?


                Wow, I had always felt it would be really cool to have a personal robot to take care of my needs at any time of day. I mean, I never actually thought my parents would not actually give me one for my birthday, nor did I actually plan on buying a robot to use as a slave. Thus, I never really thought out any of the details for what my robot would look like. Well according to this group of scientists, who interviewed a bunch of different generations of people in a study that can be found here, determined that it really depends on what the robot is doing for you. The ranges of a robots looks ranged from completely robot to completely human, and another choice for a kind of a mix between the two types.

                Personally, I would definitely go for the completely robot look for every situation possible. This is because once I start using robots for work that I should do, I do not really have to feel that bad about it since the robot still has a foreign quality that does not remind me so much of another human. If the robot were to look like a complete human, it still makes me kind of worried that they probably could pass off as a regular human. So, when they take over the world and real humans must start fighting back, or you know, when they are forced to do all the work that humans are supposed to do, it would still invoke some problems in the more innocent people, because it would honestly be kind of like slavery again. Well that is my opinion, and that may be just because I am part of the “younger generation” the study was talking about.

                In this study, it was shown that many of the older people preferred to have human robots while the other younger group had preferred to have either a mixed face or a completely robotic thing. My reasoning for this, of course from my extensive education of high school history, is delved from many instances occurring in history, where the elder generation is less susceptible to change, and try to remain the same, just look at the French. Younger people, who have not gotten into a “normal” routine yet, are still very flexible with how the world is run. In a different brain study, it showed that younger brains are better equipped for learning. The age gap between generations could create much debate in the future, but so far it has not happened yet, and let us hope it stays that way.