Comments by "roidroid" (@roidroid) on "Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine" video.

  1. Print your own printer
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  2. Since this talk has nothing to do with Plutonium, missing your point is quite easy.
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  3. I am sick of every subject being an apparent conspiracy. Of literally no TED video comment section being free of these retarded comments. There's always someone who notices some gaps or holes in an idea that can be used to control it, and then makes the huge logical jump to it being evidence there is some Evil-Genius behind it. No, there are gaps and holes in everything, it's normal, it's not a conspiracy, there is no evil genius behind the scenes.
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  4. Those are all examples of official military secrets. Except the Al-Qaeda one, that's just a run of the mill conspiracy theory. Which could be true, sure, but i think it's better explained by things such as hands being somewhat tied by the needs of international diplomacy and PR (eg: further alienating Pakistan is to be avoided), and just general incompetence. The "Western Interests" u talk of are much less organised/collaborative than you think, not so much "conspiring" as tumbling/bumbling.
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  5. 100 is the average (well... in theory), so i started with that, we passed it in 2005. But sure, lets take it further: Best-case scenario is Einstein said it on his deathbed in 1955. So we'll have to wait until 2053 until the single dumbest person alive on the planet at the time (an IQ of only 5) will be smart enough to destroy all life. ps: an IQ of 201-202 would be smarter than any human who has ever lived in all of history, so 250 would be pretty out there.
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  6. Ugg make fire? Oh no, now we all surely die from being burned. Ugg doom us all. Ugg make sharp rock axe? Oh no, now we surely all die from being cut up. Ugg doom us all. Ugg make canoe? Oh no, now we surely all die by falling off edge of world. Ugg doom us all. Ugg make writing? Oh no, now we surely all die from communication of war propaganda. Ugg doom us all. Ugg make farm? Oh no, now we surely die coz no land left to hunt on. Ugg doom us all. etc etc etc fucking pessimists.
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  7. why horses
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  8. You implied monopolistic controls covertly and nefariously pre-designed into the system by the powers-that-be. Your descriptive of "genius" indicates you believe intent is involved, and not accident. Intent, secrecy & nefariousness.... what you are describing in your original post is commonly known as a conspiracy.
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  9. Plutonium is an element, the ability to at-home print designer elements outof a library of basic sub-atomic particles is a long way off. ATM the closest thing to that is mostly done in gigantic particle accelerators, multiple kilometres in diameter. And even at that scale we're still no-where near the stage where we can casually print out whatever designer element we wish.
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  10. Theorising on ways to control various technologies is about as easy as spilling a cup of water, it's certainly not "genius". It's fucking obvious, it's practically a rule of our universe. Do you think that the ability to control life by regulating oxygen is a conspiracy too? Coz this is the level of insight you're shitting out here. To use the "low hanging fruit" analogy: you're not even picking fruit - you're grabbing squashed fruit from the floor that a Neanderthal once chewed on. SHUTUP
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  11. I started at 100, average IQ, it seemed appropriate. In 1 human lifetime you'd be flat out meeting even one person with an IQ over 164. An IQ of 195 would be smarter than anyone else alive on the planet ATM. An IQ of 250 would be well over the smartest human who has ever lived in the existence of humans so far. I'm not sure anyone has a measurable 250 IQ. The further away you get from the norm, the less reliable the results get. I'd take anything above 150 IQ with a pinch of salt.
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  12. Einstein died over 50 years ago. So the suggested IQ required to destroy life on earth would now be in the negative numbers, heh
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  13. Sorry my last comment (below) was a bit harsh, I just didn't know how else to respond to that. :( If any member of a democracy says "my first reaction is fear"... as a phrase that really should set off alarm bells, it makes you incredibly easy to manipulate by fear-mongering politicians and/or media etc.
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  14. Doesn't it make you feel like a bit of a manipulated tool, that the first thing you think of is terrorists and how afraid you are of them? Fearful voters are easily herded. Do you consume a lot of sensationalist media?
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  15. (...cont) But maybe that was the point. Since obviously no-one has yet destroyed all life on Earth - perhaps Einstein was saying that the IQ requirement to destroy all life on Earth is still beyond what any human has yet experienced. We can take comfort in that, but that comfort diminishes with every passing year. We don't know what the IQ requirement is, is it 1000? or is it only 203? (ps: i'm just waxing poetic, i don't believe this, don't take this srsly).
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  16. Yeah, blowback's a bitch. There's some plausible deniability, and there's some bumbling. You suggest the former dominates, i suggest the latter does. Just because there's links doesn't mean there's plans. To call on some common cliches: - Correlation does not equal causality. - Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Just because medicines are hard to make, doesn't mean they're specifically designed that way for evil rent-seeking purposes.
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