I'll start watching the Olympics when they let the robots compete...

...humans should be treasured for their minds, not pumped full of drugs and
waste hours training to do something a machine can do better anyway.

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James.
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu 
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of John Ferrell
> Sent: 2007 May 22, Tue 06:08
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [OT]:first amputee runner to compete in the Olympics
> 
> I think there are serious issues to be considered.
> It could encourage the highly competitive to seek replacement 
> of inferior natural limbs.
> My initial reaction is that would be bizarre. OTH, 
> competition encourages technical development and in the near 
> future I expect I will be shopping for replacement knee joints.
> 
> Perhaps a special class for the artificially enhanced competitor?
> 
> John Ferrell    W8CCW
> "Life is easier if you learn to plow
>        around the stumps"
> http://DixieNC.US
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cedric Chang" <cc@nope9.com>
> To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 9:38 PM
> Subject: [OT]:first amputee runner to compete in the Olympics
> 
> 
> > From Nasa Tech Briefs
> >
> > a South African sprinter who wants to be the
> > first amputee runner to compete in the Olympics. He is facing
> > resistance from
> > track and field?s governing body, which is seeking to bar him on the
> > grounds
> > that the technology of his prosthetic legs may give him an unfair
> > advantage
> > over sprinters using their natural legs.
> >
> > My feeling is that the Olympics are an idea whose time has come and
> > gone.
> > Who will care about the fastest "natural" sprinter in the world if
> > enhanced people
> > can do things that exceed "natural" folks ?  I know that I would
> > not.  It is sort of
> > like the "special" Olympics.  A nice thing to support and who cares
> > who the winner
> > is ?
> >
> > Cedric
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