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Synthetic Life In The Lab
niktesla writes "Scientific American is carrying a story about
sythetic life - genetic engineered "machines" made from DNA building blocks called "BioBricks". The goal is to produce a library of building blocks that can be assembled to give predictable results. Reminds me of the technology behind Blade Runner's replicants."
There's this thing called fiction where you don't have to tell the truth, then there's this thing called science fiction where you can just make anything you like up.
Then there's this thing called real life which just sucks because you can't make any of it up. Though someone should tell that to Tony Blair.
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"Scientific American is carrying a story about sythetic life...."
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Lego Starts Suing?
will it be released in GPL?
Pretty soon we can have a real living lego maniac (tm)
Sweet.
Get off his case for mispelling sithetic. If I were you, I'd be more worried about one of these sith things getting loose from the lab and coming after you.
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Hi. I'm Troy McClure. You might remember me from such artificial-life films as "Species 2: Electric Boogaloo" and "The Al Gore Story".
What sort of idiots do you think we are? We're /.ers. We've memorised every little bit of our high school biology books on the chapters to do with sexual reproduction.
Pity that very few of us will be able to take our learning into the field.
Cogito, ergo sig.
Does this mean we'll also see bio-pop ups for pr0n, bio-spy ware, and viruses? Considering the amount of bad software churned out by business, perhaps we don't want them 'programming' organisms? Maybe this is something to leave locked in the lab and not try to find applications.
... India's outsourcing boom because corportations will soon be able to assemble 100% compliant personnel from off the shelf parts. Think of it, legions of mindless corporate drones who do not have to be paid a salary and can be recycled into hotdogs to feed the remaining workforce when they become redundant.
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> Any life arising from the hand of man is de facto synthetic
Well, that would apply to most donated sperm, then.
Hackers? Hell, I'm worried about buffer overflows.
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Just think about what *one* lab escaped 'pregnant' self replicating lifeform could do to our ecology.
I think you're getting "synthetic life" mixed up with "tribbles." ;)
If you change that to Mr Coffee IV (intravenous) into the bone marrow, you might become a millionaire.
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