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Scientists build DNA based computer
Archangel Michael writes "Israeli scientists have built a DNA computer so tiny that a trillion of them could fit in a test tube and perform a billion operations per second with 99.8 percent accuracy.
Yahoo News has the story"
2. Here's a link on how to run Linus on it
3. Knowing Microsoft they are going to try and control substrate or medium for the DNA proliferation inside.
The smallpox virus, with only a few thousand base pairs of DNA, could wipe out nearly half the world's population, 2.5 billion people, if released. And that's a virus that doesn't even have intelligence!
Now we're talking about creating DNA-based computers. Has anyone even stopped to think about this? What happens if someone runs a neural network or similarly advanced artificial intelligence on one of these computers? What happens if one of them becomes even slightly self-aware?
That's right, an intelligent virus; a downright apocalypse. Armageddon. We'd just be food for the next life form.
Honestly, I think these "scientists" would create a bomb to destroy the Universe given the opportunity, just to see if they could do it. There's no reason to mess with the designs of our Creator like this. I'm not condemning all biosciences, just the projects that endanger all of Humanity- Viral Genetic Engineering, Human Cloning, and now Sentient Virii.
I don't even know why I read the news anymore.
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