The Children Are Our Future

23 Replies to “The Children Are Our Future”

1. They are trying too hard………

2. I find the technology intriguing. The ability to see the world through the eyes of other species is fascinating. Human eyes see the world and colors through a limited spectrum. For kids that will never have the opportunity to visit nature, the idea behind the tech is great.

   The problem is that it will inevitably be served with a progressive political slant and not Nature as it really exists. For instance, there’s not a chance in hell that a VR experience will make me “start caring a little more about a mosquito”. Mosquitos kill more humans per year than any other species so I’d favor total eradication given the misery they cause. That leads me to believe this really neat tech will be a manipulative Disneyworld meets progressive utopia VR experience. The odds of it being politicized and weaponized against non-leftists and used to promote progressive agendas — virtually 100%.

   Too bad if that happens because it could be used for some really cool applications.

   1. “Mosquitos kill more humans per year than any other species ” I did not know that.
      Regarding the application, I am sure it can be engaging, but it is not really about experiencing nature. It is simply just more information, some of it (most of it?) not particularly meaningful. It takes away from the human experience, rather than enhancing it. I think that might have been the intention.

      1. I’d argue it’s more like the concept behind zoos, museums of history and natural history, or even a well done documentary.

   2. Then perhaps conservatives should create something instead of complaining about what others create.

      1. Celebrate the education camps that socialists and communists created and used effectively to correct wrong think.

      2. Jaysus wept, NumbUnuts. Go take a f@cking walk in the woods or get the f@ck outta dodge and look at the f@cking stars!

   3. Coincidence: I think I kill more mosquitoes every year than all the animals of all the other species that I kill.

3. I hear Avatar Two is coming out. Can’t wait….not!

4. I wonder if they will “see” the axe coming?
   That is a sticky site.

   Seems kind of stupid-smart, once again curing the patient by killing them.
   Perhaps these people need to git out more.
   Umm LC Bennet “For kids that will never have the opportunity to visit nature, the idea behind the tech is great.”
   What is this nature they will never have the opportunity to visit?
   And why no opportunity?

   1. Depends on your defintion of a nature experience, I suppose. If it means just being outside in a backyard, going to a city park, hiking in a forest, camping or going to a kids camp, swimming in a lake, hunting, fishing? Obviously all children will go outside and be in nature but what percentage of urban kids have very few opportunities to have a trip that immerses themselves in nature? If kids have parents who are not outdoorsy then VR might be as close as they’ll get to a real forest, mountains or open grassland.

   2. Did Ceausescu of Romania see his axe coming? Did Khadafy?

      Like Comey, Brennan, the Clintons, Strzok, Paige, McCabe, Klapper, Obama, Rice, Powers, et al, they think they are above the law, so only criminals, deplorables and people unfit to be President would disagree.

5. The article says that Owls can read a newspaper from the other side of a football pitch.

   I don t doubt that owls have fantastic eye vision and can see fine details from hundreds of feet away, but read a newspaper?

   owls reading?

   1. There, you learned something today. 🙂

      1. And those reading owls, do they read English or French newspapers?

         maybe they are bilingual owls

         maybe they can read Russian too, maybe they colluded with Russia to get Trump to win the election!

         Don’t tell Robert Mueller!

      2. True enough – I also learned that “you could understand the language birds are signing”.

         I didn’t know birds could use sign language.

6. Anyone who believes that 110 stainless steel poles with green lasers shooting out of the tips … equal a forest … are sick. Sick in the head. Mentally ill.

7. VR is an expensive way of avoiding the real thing (excepting say, flight simulators) but a logical extension of computer gaming generations. If you are happy with other people’s artificial versions of what your own senses are capable of perceiving, that’s fine. Based on the link, the accompanying editorial tends toward junk science (sixth extinction???).

8. or…..
   They could read.
   Otherwise it might confuse a kid when you tell him a mosquito can see a colorless odorless gas.
   https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-mosquitoes-detect-people
   and
   https://asknature.org/strategy/eyes-see-300-images-per-second/#.WyVCG4ona00

   It’s a less costly camp, and, this way you know what your kid is ‘looking up’.

9. CNN Story – would you think anyone else would cover this crap?

10. OK, f@cking a blow-up doll or getting reamed by a dildo while your head is in a pumpkin is for people with mental illness. Get your face tattooed, colour your hair green, put a pin through your tongue, clitoris or glans I don’t f@cking care, but if you replace the magnificence of nature with a movie, you’re doomed. And don’t give me sh!t about untouchables or I live in a favela cuz those poor sods ain’t getting the pumpkin show ever. F@cking weirdos.

11. Mosquitoes can see carbon dioxide? Big deal! Greentards have been claiming that ability for years. After all, it’s everwhere!!

12. see how the language is manipulated? newspeak: ‘virtual’ ‘reality’. a ginormous contradiction in just those 2 words.
    newspeak.
    the rest of this things resembles some really goofy 50s futuristic nonsense. kinda like the single seat helicopters going from your front door to the front door of your destination.
    yep, I thought, all we need, drunk driving in 3 dimensions.

    the truth is an endangered species now.