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I was thinking that what we consider to be alive has to have intellectual movements, and that we humans are at the top of this pyramid, but if by this definition of being alive wouldn't an intellectual robot be consider alive as well and if we are able to make a robot smart enough to replicate then wouldn't they be considered a species? if this is true then wouldn't sending robots out into space to repopulate another world be considered as the only way for intellectual species of this world to survive after the sun destroys everything?

The Government of any given country is there to establish law, but lets face it, a lot of the people in the government are not very bright, so if we were to replace the government by a board of scientists that decided laws in a totally un-bias way, do you think that that would be better and improve our quality of life?

I was reading that diluting 35%H2O2 in distilled water to make it 3.5% is safe to drink for beneficial reasons, do you believe that this is true, has anybody tested this on animals?

I wanted to know what cancer was so i did some research, and most websites tell us that cancer is a name for various diseases in which old cells that get their DNA damaged start to divide uncontrollably, instead of dying, but i wasn't so convinced that this is necessarily true, i wonder how they know that the DNA becomes damaged. We know now that the DNA works by some sort of switching on and off system, i which some genes are sometimes turned on and sometimes off, and i wonder what if that is what is happening to old cells, instead of the part of the gene that tell that cell to die some other part turns on and tells it to divide, could this be possible?