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Mikayla Klein

Mrs.Stollings

English 403-4

4 April 2017

How far is too far?

Scientific advancement is being worked on every day of our lives. People become so anxious to

be ahead of everyone else in the world and want to create things people thought would be

impossible. Some scientists go too far with their research and try many different theories. The

NIH (National institutes of Health) invests $32.3 billion annually on scientific research. There

should be a limit on what scientists can and can't do. In some cases, scientists could potentially

hurt the human population by making it decrease or increase dramatically, an example would be

if they figure out a way to duplicate humans then the population would grow. On the other side,

exploring the unknown could help us in a way.

Ever since day one of humans being on Earth, people have wanted to create new things,

be the first to invent something, and go beyond the impossible. Scientists are most known for

wanting to explore the unknown and make everything possible. If no one is willing to take a risk

then we wouldn't be where we are today. These people take large risks of not knowing what

could happen during the experiment, if it is going to end badly or really good. There are private

researchers who spend money on research because they know in the long run that if they can

figure out something new then it will all be worth it.

In some cases, I think that transplanting organs could be a good thing but in others it

could be a bad and sort of scary thing. There are some people who could need something as

common as a kidney transplant or liver transplant to live. In 2015 there were 30,970 organ

transplants done. One scientist is thinking way ahead and wanting to do a head transplant. In

Russia, Dr.Canavero plans to do a head transplant this year. This is completely too far and

would be too risky. The man that is offering his head to be used has Werdnig-Hoffman disease
which tends to be fatal; the body is coming from a person who is brain dead but otherwise

healthy. If the surgery went successfully then who is to say he couldn't die within hours, day,

weeks etc If he does survive then there could always be a possibility of something ending up

wrong with him mentally or he could even go into shock because his head is on someone else's

body.

On the other side, exploring could be a rather good thing for humans. Humans are

slowly destroying Earth as we know it. Twenty out of the thirty seven largest aquifers have had

more water removed than returned in the past decade (2003-2013). Climate change is already a

thing; the Earth is getting hotter and hotter every year because the atmosphere is getting

destroyed. NASA has been doing research on Mars for years now and they have discovered

that there is water. We need to figure out another place for humans to go if the Earth does get

destroyed. It would be an amazing thing if humans were capable of finding another planet to live

on and creating another population of people. Obviously, not everyone would be able to go to

the new planet but if somehow we could get a few hundred/thousand people there and re-

populate then maybe humans could have a second chance and do things right this time.

There is such thing as going too far with scientific advancement, but sometimes it can be

a good thing. Billions of dollars are being spent every year trying to explore new creations.

Scientists are the only reason we have access to over half the things we have. Medical

treatments all the way to trying to discover life on another planet is all thanks to scientist

researchers. Hopefully one day we can cure all diseases and be able to move to a different

planet to ensure that humans don't go extinct.

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