As technology continues to improve, by leaps and bounds, some of the sciences are reaping great benefits from the advancements.
If you ever watch cop-shows like Law & Order or Special Victims Units, it’s interesting to see technological advances at work. As Elliot and Olivia dig through a bunch of clues at the crime scene, the DNA specialist back at the lab is recreating the crime scene on a computer and matching DNA samples to criminals in a national data base. What seemed like science fiction just a few short years ago is now putting criminals from long forgotten cases behind bars. Some of this science is so advanced, DNA samples from crime scenes several decades old are now being solved.
Another area where science is benefitting from technology is that of anthropology. In the movie Jurassic Park, Dr. Alan Grant made suppositions about dinosaurs until he actually saw them alive on an island. Scientists are using DNA analysis to understand the complex movements of dinosaurs. A recent discovery suggested that some live DNA still exists on dinosaur fossil bones, meaning it’s not out of the realm of possibility to see dinosaurs come back to life.
Astronomy is another science that has greatly benefited from advances in technology. The Hubble telescope first brought pictures of deep space nearly 20 decades ago. Today, NASA is capable of monitoring fully-functioning robots on mars and directing their activities while exploring the surface of a planet many think once contained life.
Another example of science benefitting from technology is the early warning and detection of foreign objects in the sky. Objects like asteroids, comets and other earth destroyers are clearly visible with the telescopes and satellites that are watching space at all times. Makes you wonder if there is some kind of fail-safe plan in place should there be an event of mass destruction.
Didn’t someone do a movie about that?