What a beginning !!

I come home (technically i am not even home yet - i am in Singapore as i write this) after 1 and a half years, and the first big news i hear is an earthquake 8.9 on the scale, and a staggering death toll in South East Asia. it is amazing all man's technological advancements and so called knowledge of earth are simply humbled, and one gives some perspective and respect to how nature still has its grip on the human fate in this lonely planet. Scientists can predict a comet or meteorite in its collision course, but just cant predict with 100% certainty (even at a given second) if it is going to rain tomorrow. They've gotten better at false negatives but still it is very primitive. Not a single scientist predicted this natural disaster and look how much of lives and properties the force has claimed. Not a single nation on this planet has the the smarts to predict or the muscle to fight such a disaster - not even the US with its army of scientists.

Sometimes we take lot of things for granted; but sometimes we just overestimate ourselves. A simple list to show what a primitive world we live in -

1. it still takes me 24 hours of flight travel to travel from Seattle to Chennai.
2. there is no medicine for AIDS, same for ageing, impotence or even the simplest disease haunting mankind for ever - baldness.
3. i still cannot have a trouble free, decent quality video chat with my folks in India from my residence in Seattle
4. there are a thousand things i cant do even in the most technologically advanced cell phone
5. Moon travel or even space travel is restricted only to billionnaires and maybe to govt sponsored astronauts.
6. Man cannot fly (not inside a vessel, but self equipped)
7. women are still very hard to understand

Disappointed, huh?? Poor review score, humans - no salary raise or bonus this year !!