I am a trainee pilot and this has struck a huge nerve with me.

There is NO substance in the article mentioned and the summary is basically a troll. Slashdot - please do not descend to the level of a tabloid newspaper reporting on emotions.

What a stupid, stupid article.

Or to make it a little more posix...
cd my_lawn; find . -depth -print -name kids\* -exec rm -rf {} \;

You can look forward to becoming slower, weaker and more passive if you like. To be honest, that sounds like giving up.
Me....well, I'm going to continue working and hoping towards a better quality of life with the aid of science and technology. (Just in case your claim that there *is* an afterlife is somewhat flawed).

OMGPONIES!!

From the article:
"If there were an obvious interaction between a superconducting films and gravitational waves, wouldn't Gravity Probe B have picked them up somehow?.....As it turns out, the experiment has been throwing out anomalous results ever since it was launched......The team has puzzled over them for years now....."

I really do love those moments in science when something you have puzzled over for years may have an elegant answer after all.

If I had mod points, I'd give you all 5. Very insightful post.

I've noticed the same thing over nearly 15 years in IT.

Good lord, I read this as "he explains his dream to build autonomous breasts from PVC conduits.

I need to sort myself out :)

Rest in peace, you were one of us and we will miss you.