So far, so close

Monterrey, Mexico .- Since the man opened his eyes to the awareness of their environment prinicpio of time, has been immersed in a maelstrom of questions over thousands of years ... has responded to meet other more complex and exciting questions.

The first men on the face of the earth looked to the sky and marveled at the infinite and the immensity of the sea while seeking answers to their illnesses, dietary needs and environmental challenges.

We still like this: Spanish scientists have discovered a bright star 33 000 times brighter than our sun. Japanese scientists have just sent a rocket into the sun with advanced measurement instruments and soon, like Mars, unpublished photographs will amaze and we will advance our imagination to answer some questions that will generate more complicated.

What to do to achieve a source of cheap, clean energy, similar to the sun? Chinese scientists say they are about to do, while the revival of nuclear energy is a fact, given the geopolitical and natural scenarios rebounded on oil price per barrel to over $ 80. The construction of nuclear plants are triggered and added to the 441 nuclear power factories on the planet.

And while this frightens us on energy, the man is looking to the sky, like the Neanderthals did in fear that causes ignorance of how and why a hostile environment and has the wonderful ability of man to master.

Completed in days space mission to Mars sent us wonderful pictures of the planet that empowered the imagination of Isaac Asimov novels reflected in their fictional worlds, cultures and cities, the red planet named Carl marveled endearing Sagal and terrorized the population New York with the now legendary story of Orson Wels through early radio announcing the Martian invasion of Earth.

But today we can say that there is water ice at the poles of Mars and the Cydonia Face 'legendary, first discovered by the Viking 1 spacecraft 30 years ago, on July 25, 1976, is not nothing but a mound rocky with the effect of the shadows like a face.

In this example, the man in 30 years, discovered the highly eroded area of ​​Mars and the Cydonia Face. With the series of questions came unsubstantiated responses-in the area of ​​fiction that were sent away with proof of ancient cities or structures exist there.

It was another step spectacular as the ancestors of the Middle Ages when they were not burned at the stake of religious primitivism Copernicus with his thesis that the sun was the center of the universe and that the planets rotated around.

Thanks to science we left the dark ages but it touches of our politicians, whatever their nationality they are, step by step, mankind has answered endless questions and in the so-called Age of Enlightenment, the twentieth century, we move it not in a thousand years. And in just seven years of this new century, we move rapidly to the point that technology will set the pace.

Yes, the man looks to the sky and it hit the moon.

But it also looks inward: the advance of medicine has led to living longer. Science assures us these days a cervical cancer vaccine and vaccines tested and decay.

We went from perennial sulfathiazole penicillin; defeated the Spanish flu and polimelitis. But we have fallen new plagues like AIDS that since its inception in 1980 have not yet defeated, but it sure is to be exterminated in the not too distant future, a product of scientific effort.

The many questions about the universe are so coarse as those of the human body. Frances and James Watson Krick gave rise to genetic engineering to decipher the Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA), but much earlier, the French scientist Jean Baptiste Denis, in the seventeenth century, found that blood transfusion saves lives and a century earlier, in 1532, the Spanish Servetus discovered how the pulmonary circulatory system.

Yes, man is endowed with great intangibles like goodness and fighting spirit. And the world is packed with challenges has been overcoming the knowledge, another high-value intangible science to meet the needs of humanity.

In England, circa 1250, Roger Bacon invented spectacles, goggles before Benjamin Franklin around 1780 we inherited the bifocal lenses.

Humanity owes much scientists have avocado in search of answers, but solutions to obscurantism. Thus, the German Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing to 1438, in a colossal leap in 1979 the Dutchman Joop Sinjou invented the compact disc (CD). The reference to both characters lies in the example of the progress of science. The press today is digital, high speed, high register, but predicted to disappear in the future. And so recent an invention as the CD has been reinforced by the DVD and the emergence of gadgets like USB Memory and Memory Cards, to this day with a storage capacity of 8 gigabytes, leaving in 1980 astonished those cards inserted perforated to operate a computer.

Previously, the futurist Alvin Toffler in his book Future Shock predicted that there would be a computer in every home. Geniuses like Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO today gave us the ineffable Macintosh. This article is written at a MacMini 16 by 16 inches and 5 inches high. Thank you, Steve.

The technology goes hand in hand with science. And, as I stated above, the technology shows us the way. An example of this occurred in 1966 when the United States Michael Dennis DeBackey invented the artificial heart and a year later, the South African Neethling Christian Bernard performed the first heart transplant. But it really was Mary Quant in 1967 launched the world's invention that accelerates the heart of man: the miniskirt.

Much has been advanced as humans and if it is true that the warm water has not been invented, we would not know what temperature is if the Italian Galileo Galilei had not invented the water thermometer in 1593.

We have inherited knowledge, discoveries and inventions.

Neanderthal who looked frightened and amazed the coarseness of the firmament and who cared about the difficult environment and its own self and your needs, we now contemplate, still shuddering as our ancestors, nocturnal thunder and lightning storm alert.

But today, we can make it through a window, surrounded by technological advances and knowledge with many unanswered questions, perhaps with a glass of champagne, wonderful invention of mankind inherited by the French Dom Perignon.

Yes, still dream of conquering the stars to the far and near immunized against diseases and we feed our body and spirit.

The more discoveries and inventions, we realize that much more to discover and invent, formidable challenges for generations to come

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