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http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/article/0,20967,1014147,00.html

This is interesting. This Rasmussen guy is going to stir up a firestorm of opposition on this one, I bet. But still, creating life from scratch... It's just amazing.

What do you think about it?

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/article/0,20967,1014147,00.html

This is interesting. This Rasmussen guy is going to stir up a firestorm of opposition on this one, I bet. But still, creating life from scratch... It's just amazing.

What do you think about it?
my first reaction:

WHY HAVE I NOT READ ABOUT THIS YET?!

it makes me suspicious, since i subscribe to three major scientific journal publications, and i haven't read a word about this. it sounds cool, in principle, but the science behind it might be worthless. i must investigate further...to the Bottlemobile!

Just as long as they're carefull about not letting it out I guess it's OK. It'll be interesting to see what they come up with.

They absolutely must release it into the environment so that it can defeat all natural species. Then Science will hold sway over all. Muwahahaha..ha?

Seriously though, sounds fun. But useless. Once they start making new plants that can produce edible things I'll be interested. Banana flavored apples would be neat.

I am fairly sure I read about this a few years ago in a book a bought in an airport before flying to Europe.

From what I remember things get much worse from here on out. But don't worry, after the whole thing goes pear-shaped and civilization is almost wiped out, a dissolusioned LAPD detective going through a mid-life crises after a nasty divorce saves us by discovering a flaw in the creatures thinking, or something.

Oh yes, he also finds true love with a young widow who comes from an abusive background, and they adopt a labrador dog with super intelligence.

So really it all works out well. I hope I haven't ruined the suprise for anyone.

I am fairly sure I read about this a few years ago in a book a bought in an airport before flying to Europe.

From what I remember things get much worse from here on out. But don't worry, after the whole thing goes pear-shaped and civilization is almost wiped out, a dissolusioned LAPD detective going through a mid-life crises after a nasty divorce saves us by discovering a flaw in the creatures thinking, or something.

Oh yes, he also finds true love with a young widow who comes from an abusive background, and they adopt a labrador dog with super intelligence.

So really it all works out well. I hope I haven't ruined the suprise for anyone.
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I was right! I always knew airport novels foretold the future!

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I was right! I always knew airport novels foretold the future!
:D

This is amazing.

nice articles on that site

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I was right! I always knew airport novels foretold the future!

It works for me Neo. They all come true eventually.

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/article/0,20967,1014147,00.html

This is interesting. This Rasmussen guy is going to stir up a firestorm of opposition on this one, I bet. But still, creating life from scratch... It's just amazing.

What do you think about it?
Genetics and attendant fields are the modern, biological equivalent of developing the atomic bomb. God help us if someone screws up! :(

Genetics and attendant fields are the modern, biological equivalent of developing the atomic bomb. God help us if someone screws up! :(

Oh, they will.

C'mon E, we can barely keep the NYC subway running, and last I looked there's nothing newer than 1930s technology on that. Face it, some smarty pants longhair is going to invent something cool, then the government will get in on it. Next thing you know congress will be finding jobs for their chronically alcholic brother in law on the admin staff, civil rights groups will be demanding that the project is transparent to ensure diversity and unions will be demanding that the janitors have a closed shop and the same wages as the smart longhairs that invented the thing in the first place.

Then the smart people will leave and there will be some collosal fuck up.

Face it, the only reason that an atomic bomb has never gone off accidently is because they are so fucking hard to detonate in the first place. (I believe it took the combined genius of most of the west's nobel prize winning scientists to get the first one to go boom.)

You also have to remember we live in a country where five years in the PLA and a PhD from the university of bejing is considered excellent qualifications for working at the Los Almos super secret nuclear weapons research center.

(I can just imagine that interview, "Well Dr. Lee any questions?" : "Only one, can I take work home at the weekend?" : "Well I don't see why not")

Frankly, this stuff is all too hard for us, and should be left well alone. Look at the National Park Service, they spent 2 million dollars building a single "bio-toilet" at the delaware water gap, and it never worked. It also poluted the area around it. If we can't handle toilets, we should leave this shit well alone. I see bad things in the future.

P.T. Barnum once observed: "No one ever lost a dollar underestimating the intelligence of the american public." I think you can also safely bet against the competence of the american government.

Yay! I want a giant snail so that I can live inside it's shell like in a mobile home. The snail would excrete nutritous food and water through the shell's inner walls, and maintain a constant temperature and humidity. It would also have doors and windows. A 110V electrical network may be harder to get, but since we're ordering things...

Yay! I want a giant snail so that I can live inside it's shell like in a mobile home. The snail would excrete nutritous food and water through the shell's inner walls, and maintain a constant temperature and humidity. It would also have doors and windows. A 110V electrical network may be harder to get, but since we're ordering things...

You'll be able to print your electrical network by then. Read some of the other articles on that site, especially the one about a hero on your desktop :D

It sounds a little creepy but okay.

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/article/0,20967,1014147,00.html

This is interesting. This Rasmussen guy is going to stir up a firestorm of opposition on this one, I bet. But still, creating life from scratch... It's just amazing.

What do you think about it?
fuck yeah, excellent. advancement of science (through conventional methods) always = good, imo

Like everything, it will be warped and twisted by idiots, but you can't escape it, so what they hey. Hurrah for gaining as much knowledge as possible before we nuke ourselves.

I want a bioship, like from Star Trek: Voyager, but with phallic tentacles and an S^2 engine and that phasing ability the Shadow Battlecrabs had.