HOW TECHNOLOGY WILL DESTROY THE WORLD

MULTIMEDIA ASSIGNMENTSOCIAL IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY

PROF: EMILY BRETTBRAD MAURICE

THURSDAY APRIL 11, 2013

HELP! IT’S NOT TOO LATE

IS TECHNOLOGY GOING TO DESTROY US LIKE SEEN IN THE MOVIES?

NOT LIKELY BUT THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TECHNOLOGY IS DESTROYING THE WORLD

NUCLEAR WEPONS? PARTICLE ACCELERATORS?

SUPERIOR BEINGS?

THE UNIVERSE WE LIVE IN IS GIGANTIC BEYOND IMAGINATION. IN FACT IT IS STILL EXPANDING AND GROWING LARGER TODAY. WHEN THINKING ONLY NUMERICAL AND CONSIDERING THE LIKELYHOOD OF LIFE ON ANOTHER PLANET, ITS ALMOST NIEVE TO THINK THERE ISN’T ANY.

THE SOLAR SYSTEM WE LIVE IN IS A REALITIVLEY YOUNG SOLAR SYSTEM COMPARED TO OTHERS IN THE GALAXY

THIS WOULD MEAN THAT IF LIFE DID EXSIT ELSE WHERE IN THE UNIVERSE THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THAT IT WOULD BE FROM AN OLDER GALAXY THAN OURS. WHICH WOULD GIVE OPOURTUNITY FOR THEIR SPECIES TO ADVANCE FARTHER THAN OUR PRESENT STATE. WOULD THIS MAKE THEM SUPERIOR?

NEW GAMA RAY SENDER/RECIEVER TELESCOPES ARE ALLOWING US TO BROADCAST MESSAGES INTO SPACE

AND LISTEN FOR AN ANSWER

THIS RAISES THE QUESTION

SHOULD WE BE TRYIG TO CONTACT ALIENS?

NUCLEAR WEPONS HAVE BEEN A THREAT SINCE THE EARLY 1930’S.

THERE HAS ALREADY BEEN TWO DENONATIONS OF NUCLEAR WEPONS.

THE FIRST WAS ON MONDAY AUGUST 6, 1945. ON THIS DAY A URANIUM TYPE WARHEAD NAMED LITTLE BOY WAS DETONATED IN HIROSHIMA JAPAN.

THE SECOND WAS THREE DAYS LATER. IT WAS A PLUTONIUM TYPE WAR HEAD NAMED FAT MAN DETONATED IN NAGASAKI JAPAN.

IT IS ESTIMATED THAT IT WOULD TAKE A NUCLEAR BOMB WITH A DESTRUCTIVE CAPACITY OF 5000 MEGATONS. WHICH DOSE NOT EXSIST AS OF NOW, BUT COULD BE MADE.

MAN HAS MADE MACHINES CALLED PARTICAL ACCELERATORS. THESE MACHINES MOVE SMALL PARTICLES OF MATER AT INSANE SPEEDS INORDER TO DO RESEARCH ON AN AREA OF SCIENCE CALLED HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS.

PARTCLE ACCELERATORS ARE ACTUALY CAPABLE OF PRODUCE SUCH SPEEDS AND ENERGYS THAT IT CAN CREATE WHATS KNOWN AS A BLACK HOLE AND ENGULF THE EARTH INTO IT.

TECHNOLOGY FRIEND OR

FOE?

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