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- vuzman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I, for one, welcome our new synthetic overlords
- mastershake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i make thousands of living things a day, and it didnt take a ***** grant to do that either
- monolith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No you don't, I havn't decided yet.
- CGreen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2not from scratch. the article clearly states that they copy in dna from other organisms into them.
- Llance, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can we say "Embrace and Extend"? He's tried this with TCP, HTML et al and now he's going to try the same with us!
Hmm... I wonder what happens when an MSHuman crashes... Blue Poop of Death? - unScarred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very cool... this, like all other major advances, will be cause of much fear & legislation, and yet still will one day become an everyday, mundane technology that without which we can't imagine how we once lived... digg it.
- ace11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow.
- brainorama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And I shall call him: Webb Feadz!
- ah802, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is life.. a few cells culled and snapped to-gether sounds like your typical couch potatoe.
- kfstickman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0When he dies that is.
- trollking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Diggdrones are afraid that synthetic life might be more interesting than their own. There's no "might" about it--it's a given.
- mgrimes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is what happens to dorks that cannot create life one sperm at a time.
- kfstickman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So that Bill Gates can live once again forever and ever just by saving a piece of his ear.
- Raian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That is crazy-- at least we all know ahead of time how the human race will be destroyed.
- Fallout75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Does "Resident Evil" ring a bell?
What happens when we grow a modified human and it over powers the scientists and escapes the lab?
Are they going to start patenting genetic code or DNA structures? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Pictures please.
- spartan777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the headline is not true. you cannot create life out of scratch. it is impossible, never has happened, and never will. the article itself proves the headline wrong. it says they're using bits and pieces of living cells and putting them together. living cells are not scratch. another evolutionist journalist trying to get people to think life can be made from scratch by anyone.
- M4tt3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great Post!!! Thank you.
- mpeters13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wowza
- jburchel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It is inevitable, and it will be a good thing. Change just scares people, some more than others, and especially when it is unanticipated. Most people don't think much about the future. Lucky for them some people do.
- SuperRob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Synthetic Biologists? CYLONS! :)
- jmfred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@fallout75
They've already started patenting genetic code (haven't you heard of the Human Genome Project?), because it is legal for companies to hold patents on living beings (Google genetic patents). The reality is that within about five years the billions of gene sequences that makeup the foundation for life on this Earth will be owned by a small number of different coporations. They will own you. Literally. - Akia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In a few years (decades?), Microsoft would be selling crashing Frankenstein pets! Yay!
- Web_Weasel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0He's creating an army of genetically enhanced super lawyers to further his dream of conquering the technology markets and then the world.
- jmccorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Grow your own customers?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@shade73,
Agreed. But don't you think a lot of science begins in the "two year old with nuclear warheads" phase? I.E. playing around with something new to see what happens. I'd imagine that most biologists in this field are aware of the possible ramifications of their work and take precaution against possible contamination of the "natural world" with their semi-synthetic creations.
For those wondering why someone would want to try and build a "Lego" organism, if you will, it's sort of analogous to downloading some source code and breaking it: sometimes by breaking things and putting them back together you can see how it works, what is unnecessary and better understand the relationship between functioning units (in this case the relationship between genetic content and the expression thereof). - zwilliams, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Instead of teenage angst, it'll be teenage b-s-o-d.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well at least its gets people excited...
But if you've ever heard of gene therapy, or gene spilcing this is as old as a RISC processor.
Also, religious people, get the ***** out, this is science, seriously just leave go back to your books and speculation and thinly veiled creation myth in the form of intelligent design.
Keep pretending some bird man with a light above his head is going to take you to a harp playing cloud place because you parroted the twisting of some ancient teachings by meglomaniac morons.
See
http://www.talkorigins.org/
For further info.
>>Instead of teenage angst, it'll be teenage b-s-o-d.
This made me laugh. Haha. - deegin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's pretty creepy.
- caspermilktoast, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"who or what created DNA?"
If you are asserting that God did, who created God? =D
Point is, why couldn't the universe just have been here forever? Who knows.. maybe our brains just haven't evolved enough to comprehend that yet. Just my opinion, take it or leave it.
Anyways, this is really scary stuff. I have a sickening feeling that one of these days we'll all be scrounging around for those zombie movies to find strategies for fighting them. But that's probably overdoing it a bit... but man, wreaking havoc on peoples' computers and finances is one thing, but using genetically constructed super viruses!! Yikes. I know that we have been doing stuff like this for a while in the food industry and whatnot, but it seems that this is a bit more serious. Someone has been bold enough to make a virus. Who knows what the next one will be and if the proper security measures (if that's even possible) will be in place by the time someone constructs it. - digitalunit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0God is manmade. A story that was brought here to keep the sheep like you in line. Republicans, Christians, and News Corps will take advantage of you. Terrorists, God, and the Y2K bug.. You beleive and beleived in them all didn't you? Fear to control you along with the other Flock. "Do as we say or you will burn in Hell for eternity" "We must stop the Terrrorists before Freedom is vanquished." "The Y2K bug will destroy all electricity, You must stock on food now." All of these are claims of fear. And what's similar about them? God, Terrorists, and Y2K Never existed.
- shade73, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Some more proof that God doesn't exist. =) Or if he does we don't need him
- digitalunit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Some more proof that God doesn't exist. =) Or if he does we don't need him.
- digitalunit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0It's not any different. You just proved your own point, Sheep. God doesn't exist and we don't need him anyway. We can make life ourselves.
- Rshackleford, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Nothing new really. We've been doing this kind of work for a long time now. GM crops, GM whatever use the same principle.
- shade73, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1^^ Right, so some quack get's a wild hair and copies a bunch of DNA sequences and changes one or two things and you're saying their is no God. Well, Then I pose the next logical question, who or what created DNA? (Not getting into a Theological debate, simply stating that you shouldn't make ignorant comments to dig a religion of any kind). I love the part of the article that says "The technique is really more of an art than a science." Sounds like a friggen two year old playing with a nuclear warhead saying, "wow, I wonder what this button does!"
- nOOBert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0How does this prove there is no God? Anywho playing God normally ends up bad. I also can create life, I just need to get my wife knocked up. How is that any different?
- navaan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Knowing how much energy is released from destroying an atom, what or who could harness such power to "squeeze" the needed amount of pure energy to create an atom? Where would you get your source of energy? I don't understand how evolution is accepted. Everything know has design.
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