The rest of the article is at http://www.thehawaiichannel.com/heal...17/detail.html .

Basically what happens is the patient is injected with "nanoparticals" which attach themselves to cancerous cells. Once this stage has been completed the patient then goes through a "microwave" which heats up and causes the cancer cells with the "nanoparticals" attached to explode. Since the specific heat of water is so low (and your blood is 70% water) the rest of your blood and cells will be unaffected, and you will no longer have the disease.

On the surface, this seems to be the miracle we have all been waiting for, but look a little farther into the future and you may see a problem. This machine or one like it could be the answer for many medical problems. But it could also cause a very big one. Since we (humans) are at the top of food chain, we have no means of population control other than the amount of food we have (which is seemingly infinite). These viruses, and diseases are what controls our population. Without them our population would grow at an alarming rate, creating huge problems for our world.

I don't know if this population thing is true, and I don't really have an opinion on it, it was just a thought. But at first glance this machine seems like a good thing, and very promising.

Opinions welcome......

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Oh puh-LEEZE.

You do know that humans are the only species so far that have invented and actively USE birth control, right? We are the only animal in existence capable of deliberately manipulating our own birth rate.

There is also surgery...we can make ourselves permanently sterile if we want to. We can even manipulate our own DNA, potentially making us more or less fertile.

No, viruses are not the only means of population control. That is retarded.

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I meant natural population control. Sorry for the lack of specification. But then again natural disasters also wipe out lots of people, but not near as many as disease and virus. And also the amount of food available is a type of population control, you can't have more people than you can feed. But in today's world the supply of food is adjustable for the fluctuating population. So severe illnesses are probably the best means of natural population control. It is mother natures birth control.

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There is no separating the two; the very same thing that has made us so prolific (our intelligence) is also what allows us to control our own birthrates. They are not separate.

If disease and natural disasters were the only means of controlling our population, then that would mean we were not intelligent enough to have technology. Which therefore means we would not be as prolific anyway (and so would not require population control). It is a catch 22.

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