Tango01  | 18 Oct 2013 10:03 p.m. PST |
"Dr Craig Venter, who helped map the human genome, created the world's first synthetic lifeform, using chemicals and inserting DNA into the cell of a bacteria. He believes scientists will soon be to do the same, designing basic organisms to include features useful in farming or medicine, as well as sending robots into space to read the sequence of alien life forms and replicate them back on Earth. Writing in his latest book, Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life, he says: "In years to come it will be increasingly possible to create a wide variety of [synthetic] cells from computer-designed software. The creation of cells from scratch will open up extraordinary possibilities."…"
Full article here.
link It sounds as a SF movie showing the beginning of our end… (smile). Amicalement
Armand |
| Mako11 | 19 Oct 2013 1:48 a.m. PST |
What a great idea! I mean, what could possibly go wrong??? (see numerous Sci-Fi movies to find out the answer to that question) |
| Gokiburi | 19 Oct 2013 2:58 a.m. PST |
I for one welcome our new shoggoth servitors. |
| corporalpat | 19 Oct 2013 3:33 a.m. PST |
They should go study it in some Arctic Region. |
| Hey You | 19 Oct 2013 6:04 a.m. PST |
I agree; they should study this in the arctic region of some other planet besides Sol-3. I'm sure there are a few planets out there that can be used as a lab. |
Dances With Words  | 19 Oct 2013 6:30 a.m. PST |
erm…..wasn't that sorta the plots behind the 'Species' movie francise….and then 'Prometheus' and 'Splice' and 'Monsters' and…..well, MAYBE, 'Sharktopus'….and… well, you get the idea…..in short…ET should NOT phone home or (us) even 'collect'…. |
| Cardinal Ximenez | 19 Oct 2013 8:54 a.m. PST |
Great. Like we don't already have enough issues with our current array of species. DM |
 Legion 4 | 19 Oct 2013 10:13 a.m. PST |
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| Bashytubits | 19 Oct 2013 11:22 a.m. PST |
I think they should do it on a plane with snakes. |
| billthecat | 19 Oct 2013 1:23 p.m. PST |
Sounds legit…. I assume this is going to use that new fusion reactor that accelerates particles beyond the speed of light using the the engine of a flying car borrowed from the moon colony and delivered by martians? |
| Pointy Faced Aardvark | 19 Oct 2013 3:04 p.m. PST |
Maybe there could be a virus that comes from space and turns us all into super heroes. |
| Covert Walrus | 19 Oct 2013 6:44 p.m. PST |
Meh. They made Z-DNA in the 1960s, I don't recall anything terrible happening that wasn't expected. |
| Legion 4 | 20 Oct 2013 7:30 a.m. PST |
Well since the ETs won't visit us … we'll make our own …  |
