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Hmm. There we go again. As a scientist-in-training, I have a curious desire to study the life and world that surrounds me, and this video, simple as it is, intrigues me. The funny thing about science is that we seem to bungle about, following our methods, collecting data, and trying to act intelligent, when the majority of our biggest discoveries and advances come from complete accidents. Take the X-Ray for example, which is a technology that has literally changed the face of medicine and its applications from healthcare to military technology have only served to further our "conquest of the world." X-Ray was first discovered by Physics professor Wilhelm Rontgen Röntgen who was investigating cathode rays. In the course of one of his experiements involoving a tube and a screen, he noticed a faint green glow about 1 meter away. The invisible rays coming from the tube to make the screen glow were passing through the cardboard he had set up. He found that these rays would also pass through books and papers. The funny thing is that he didn't even know what he had discovered. This is man who had spent his entire life studying the earth, and only discovered the medical use of the rays by complete accident when he saw a picture of his wife's hand on a photographic plate formed due to X-rays. Thus, medical X-Rays were born. Doesn't that make you wonder if perhaps we, the "rulers of the world" really are just bumbling dangerously about with no clue what we are actually doing? Liken us to a rocket, if you will. It can fly about, doing no one any kind of harm. It has the capacity for good as well great destruction, but really has no clue what it is meant to do. It has to recieve instructions from somewhere. How do we receive our instructions, you ask? If Quinn is to be believed, our place is obvious: Another species in the community of Earth.
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