You are much too kind, I am nothing special at all, seriously not at all.
We all thirst for knowledge and there is still an awful lot that I want to learn, but an old man once said this to me and I paused before arguing the point but soon found in my thinking that I could not contest his statement. " Knowledge is power and it's knowledge that makes the money. "
Think about it and how it could be wrong, it's not.
So you need money to make money.....yes, but if you know what others don't then you know how to make things happen that others can't and if you know how to play your cards you can find investors who want to profit on your knowledge and will pay you well, and if you're smart they will pay you very well because you knew to feed them slowly and held on to the trump cards that make you extremely valuable once there invested and thirst for your know how even more.
See I went straight to a greed motive to make my point, but we are by nature greedy, our value of self preservation helped get us to the top of the food chain and we all still have it, too much really, did you ever watch that show Deal or no Deal ? It should have been called GREED because I would think some of those people would be smarter or at least good at math, it's like strutting into a casino feeling positive that you can break the bank ignoring all the sad faces walking out, if you don't see them the first few times you will see notice them later LOL
Point is we can do anything and one day when a man loses an eye a doctor will clean things up and inject some programed stem cells that will weave in a new eye cell by cell from nutrients in your blood just like when you were in the womb and in a few weeks the patch comes off and the man say : Dammit doc, I wanted blue not brown. " My point is it will be as common as anything is now and taken for granted because we know how to do that and there is so much more.
Unlimited lifespans are possible as every cell is self replaceable/repairable if our body knows how and we can teach it, of course it is a multilayered problem, shortened DNA strands/telomers, cellular garbage buildup, ect... but I wont go into that now, point is we will one day solve it after a lot of learning.
Matter is energy and energy is matter, neither is ever lost or gained it simply changes form. You know how we use chemical energy by burning distilled dinosaur muck and someone might think all that gasoline burned up, but it's still here it turned from solid to gas and particulate when chemical bonds were converted to energy, if that same gasoline was converted to energy on an atomic level via. fusion it would have been converted to an immense amount of heat ( energy ) just like if the gas and particulate was converted through fusion, the chemical bonds we break down are very small by comparison, extremely small, we are still in the stone age by comparison.
Sorry to be long winded, anyway once we master things we will be able to turn dog droppings to gold but we wont as gold wont be anything special and that will also be a problem, but it will work out sooner or later as we go around and around, well we ( you and I ) will be dead in a blip by comparison, but the things people will one day do is almost limitless, I sure wish we would stop wasting so much time so we could see some of it, sadly we must 1st evolve and I fear that while technology is marching forward that humanity is headed for a remedial course.
50 years before I was born people were still riding animals to work, when I was born we rode a rocket to the moon, and now 50 years later ......well a lot has changed but our understanding or ourselves and what drives hasn't changed as we are still going around and around, can socialism work ? Is that our next test as the world follows the USA and machines replace human workers the social landscape is changing as everything will change, the question is will we find balance as we march forward sooner or later ? Around and around it will go, knowledge ignored will be offered up again and again, sometimes at great cost and pain until we take it all in and understand how to get there, and the more of us who understand the better, the more we know the better we all will do, and sadly I lack so much but I want to learn, just imagine if we lived 300 years 500 years how much we could know and what we would have to work with, that may be what has to change 1st before our next big leap.
Here's an image, you can click the pic to make it bigger, see the piston way up top? Now that's a long stroke and the most efficient use of the expanding gas and the piston only moves straight up and down, performance engines with over square bores are wasteful so efficiency and longevity are the main concerns and the reason for this set up, but it will also run for decades all day long day after day >
https://marine.mandieselturbo.com/i...gines-systems/two-stroke/g95me-c.png?sfvrsn=4
but admire your huge I guess variety of hobbys and interests.
. Why isn't that part of their brain affected with wisdom??
I didn't know of her and don't follow drag racing lately but tragic things seems to happen alot in lower danger practice and exhibition runs more when you least expect it.