Big Picture- Yes.

We will get to a point where our population and its needs exceed what this planet can provide.

We will either change the plantes to accomodate us, or even change ourselves genetically to adapt [ I just left the gentetic modification posts, so the idea is still fresh on my mind]

But yes, in the long run its a part of our species' version of evolution, since we don't really have natural selection, it seems our phases of evolution are controlled by our very wants and needs.

Oh I agree on that. Safety is a huge issue, I expect failure and death.

But if we're willing to pay this price, then we'll take the precautions we have and move forward, in the long run we'll have something to show for it.

True, I mean we've been looking to animals to make innovations as far as industrial design and architecture so why not redesign our genetics?

For now, I've heard of "designer babies" where the parents will pay to have the codons for the eye and hair color to be a certain way.

But I'm sure once we've developed this more we can modifiy ourselves past the human body's natural bounds. Eventually, what started as a practical and lifesaving practice will be applied for purely cosmetic and odd body alterations- horns, wings, extra limbs, its all possible through our DNA.

We'll definetly have to look at breeding in a different way. It may get to a point where we have to do all that in the lab, since the gentetic variation may become too great from person to person.

When classic books like Tom Sawyer are now banned from schools because the word "nigger", political correctness is getting in the way of progress. We are becoming so preoccupied with PC that we're passing laws that make it a crime to "sag" your pants more than 6 inches off the waist and several others. 1984 was written for a reason.

Learning history helps us not only because "those who dont know it are destined to repeat it" but it also helps us develop leadership skills and military tactic. George Washington studied the roman empire's history and applied it as a framework for our country, and he looked to their leaders to learn how to govern the US.

No, I just think that the events that happened are all connected, and that we did gain something out of the horror, and from those findings we progressed even further. By altering time, we might not have had these.

I don't think assassinating Hitler would be a productive idea. At the time Italy and Japan has aspirations to gain control of large parts of the world as it is. Hitler aided them in their cause but they could still pose a threat without him.

Aside from that, the experiments conducted in concentration camps on the prisoners contributed heavily to modern medicine and science.