critical thinking blog assignment #8

            The responsibilities of scientists is to better the world. Scientists are supposed to find the cures for diseases, letting us know how a person died which links up with criminal justice. Scientists help us solve everydayproblems which help people live their lives longer and healthier. Scientific progress should always go forward even though there can be consequences that most of us don't want. I believe this because people fear what they do not know. The more you know, the more you feel comfortable about or around something. For example, people are afraid of robots because they aren't around them on a daily basis. With the help of technology they are helping us get familiar with robots so we learn about them. Even if something may be dangerous for all of us I still believe progress should go forward because we won't know about something unless is truely happens. You never really know if something is bad or good unless we experiment. For example, one project that did threaten us was Einstein's involvement in the manhattan project, which was the creation of the first atomic bomb. Yes, the atomic bomb was dangerous and deadly, but he didn't mean any harm by it. Einstein was considered a genius by the masses because he was a theoretical physicist, philosopher, author and is perhaps one of the most influential scienists who ever lived. He also contributed to the founding of relativistic cosmology, the prediction of the deflection of light by gravity, the quantum theory of atomic motion in solids, the zero-point energy concept, and the quantum theory of monatomic gas. Another example of scientific progress while acknowledging the complexity of the issue is Fotsch's progression of cars in Futurama. Yes, the cars helped the city pick up a fast pace during a time of depression, but it also caused problems with the environment as far as the ozone layer goes. Global warming harms us because it pollutes the air we breathe, but at the same time cars have changed our lives for the better. Cars help us get to places so fast, and make our lives easier.