Well, it is a great lost, any human life worthies any kind of effort to
avoid lose it.  Pretty much difficult is to understand a 747 killing
more than 300 persons at once, in a split of seconds, or a Tornado or
Hurricane just sweep dozens, thousands of lives without any possible
action, no answers at all for them, no explanations.

Since the cave's time, human life has being fragile, but intelligence
was bigger and gave a whoomp to the race to keep going over lions,
tigers, bears, enemies, now airplanes, car crashes, new virus and so on.

30 years ago it was easy to die from a single infection, and thanks to
the technology it was easy to create bypasses and solutions.
Unfortunately medicine's evolution was not as fast as the electronics
and automation.  We still without any solution for lots of chemical
imbalances and malfunctions.  Our body is a chemical machine and we
don't know very well how to correct a failing "circuit" just dealing
with the chemical reactions.  DNA engineering promises to fix most of
the problems, since that is the main source, or the machine "core"
coding.  Sometimes I wonder if keep things at this level isn't more
profitable for chemical labs, producing medicine and keeping the patient
barely alive to keep spending money.

For a while, we do everything that is possible to save and preserve the
species, using redundant computers on airplanes and high risky
vehicles.  If you see what electronics are doing in a iF-22 jet, it is
thousands, or perhaps millions of times more powerful and sophisticated,
safer and speedier, than all the computers used in the Apollo mission
(196x).  We went to the Moon using TTL logic.

Again, unfortunately a piece of electronics dedicated to high risky
jobs, as a on board computer is a little bit more expensive than a PIC
$4.  Even that if you take a look at their boards, they use common
parts, military or industrial grade.

You can have all the money in the World, golden coated engine cylinders
at your airplane, sooner or later an oil pressure hose will breaks, it
is a constant gamble against that guy in black, we fight, he just waits.

Wagner

tmariner wrote:

> I'm proud when we can use this power to apply microcontrollers to better
> lives and ashamed when we miss an opportunity to save them.
>
> Tom