Yea, what he said.  Amen.

>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
>