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About Me

Location:
Canada, Sherbrooke, Qc
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Computer Science
Languages:
French, English
Universities:
Université de Sherbrooke

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  • A comment on Conversation: If the opportunity presented itself, should we bring back dinosaurs?

    Nov 18 2011: It's probably a bad idea for a ton of reasons, but I still say JUST BRING THEM BACK! They're awesome!!!

    For the record, if there is a secret Jurassic Park somewhere, I'm up for recruitment! Let me know!

  • A comment on Conversation: Nuclear Energy is threat to life. Nuclear clean energy is a spin doctored myth that ignores the huge footprint of nuclear waste clean up

    Nov 17 2011: What about nuclear fusion energy? I know it's not ready for production right now, but because you're talking about nuclear energy in general in a way I think would rather fit nuclear fission energy, I would like to possibly bring that precision (for the record).
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    A comment on Talk: Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive

    Sep 8 2011: Never understood why lots of scientists thought there couldn't be life without . The life we know is planet Earth's life. Why assume there couldn't be something different? Good work. Open minded. Very nice project. I'm happy to see this happen.

  • A comment on Talk: Paul Root Wolpe: It's time to question bio-engineering

    Apr 5 2011: I think our big problem to come is this. We are developing science and technology which allows a lot of people to live old enough to have children, while they wouldn't have if they were born 50 years earlier. We're keeping more and more bad genes in the human gene pool. I wouldn't be surprised if we ended up with some very sick and weird humans in not so many generations. We are drastically attenuating the intervention of natural selection. (I don't say that's an only bad thing. Lots of people are happy about it, being still alive.) What I would say is: keep up the research, we *will* need to use genetic engineering in the future. On humans. I absolutely agree, though, that using genetic engineering is not a game. Each and every possible use of it should be well documented, thoroughly examined. Money shouldn't be a motive for genetic engineering - it will too often lead to problems (and some rich persons). When money is the motive, we almost always go too fast, we close our eyes and press the red button.

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