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Bacteria Made to Behave as Computers
hende_jman writes "Scientists at Princeton University successfully 'programmed bacteria to behave like computers, assembling themselves into complex shapes based on instructions stuffed into their genes.' Though applications may not come for awhile, the article says that in the future this technology may be used in devices to detect bioterrorism chemicals. The article also has pictures of the programmed E. coli."
Though applications may not come for awhile, the article says that in the future this technology may be used in devices to detect bioterrorism chemicals.
Call me cynical, but I think this technology will be used in devices to make and control bioterrorism chemicals. And not necessarily by the "bad guys" either.
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First, they made armed autonomous robots, now it's smart bacteria that is potentially deadly... All that remains now is for the two to team up against their human opressors. I feel good about it.
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Anybody else have visions of the Greg Bear book "Blood Music" when you read this?
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All they need to do now is do this to a virus... then maybe we can give the virus a virus. Kinda funny, but it would be cool if it led to the desctuction of aids.
The researchers programmed E. coli bacteria to emit red or green fluorescent light in response to a signal emitted from another set of E. coli. The living cells were commanded to make a bull's-eye pattern, for example, around central cells based on communication between the bacteria. The bacteria "have an exquisite capability to sense molecules in the environment," he said.( Ron Weiss) "The bull's-eye could tell you: This is where the anthrax is."
Pretty fascinating stuff, stuff like bacteria and viruses have been kicking our asses for years really, sure antibiotics gave us a temporary edge, but now we have super dooper antibiotic resistant versions. All our approaches have really been hit and miss, but now we can develop and program our own little bacteria super soldiers and fight them on their own terms with intelligent strategy backing us up.
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Next week, in an even bigger scientific breakthrough, they're going to advance to images of mickey mouse, a human breast, and a zero.
It's amazing how you can control an organism's behavoir by altering it's DNA.
*yawn* Welp, time to go look at pictures of naked girls.
What kind of FPS does it get in HL2?
I can only imagine what wonderful ideas Micro$oft is coming up with right now... Imagine your 'computer' crashing and growing all over your house.
Wired did an article about a similar notion back in 1995 which was rather interesting at the time.
Bacteria computers... When they die, they really do shrivel up and die. No more blue screen of death... but someone will still have to clean up the mess. Go figure.
not long before someone ports my p2p app for this platform
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There! See? Nothing to it.
Uh... oh yeah... and something something bacterial computers something
Anyone else read "Prey" by Micheal Crichton? If so, does any of this sound framiliar? hmmmmmmmmmmm
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a betterpictureof bacteria assembling themselves into complex shapes based on instructions stuffed into their genes
serenity now!
Detection capabilities are measured in millions of samples nowdays. Moreover, why go through the hassle of growing up an organism, when just a piece of the organism will do? It's much harder to keep a colony of bacteria alive than the small protein/antibody fragments currently used as protein assays.
If we were to grow up enough of these cells to use in that many detection reactions, it would cost too much, take up too much space, and be too slow to be applied a high throughput system.
As for being "programmed", is it really news that cells behave based on their DNA and protein content? Too much PR spin on something not practical.
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This explains why I could calculate PI to 1 000 000 decimals in 1.8 seconds the last time I was sick.
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Geez, when was the last time researchers achieved something that *didn't* have applications in combating terrorism? Combating terrorism just isn't newsworthy anymore, everybody's doing it. Slashdot should post an article next time there's research that has absolutely no connection whatsoever with combating terrorism. Might be a while before that funding dries up though...
Can they run Tiger? //you thought i was going to say Linux didn't you.
If we can make computers out of bacteria, we can probably make them out of viruses too.
And that virus computer at some point could be made to run Windows...
And if they build this computer in Moscow we'll be able to say...
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, Windows runs on viruses!
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Is it safe to run Norton A/V on this?
Inquiring minds want to know.
If they start generating an AT field, kiss your ass goodbye.
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Complete with the Blue Slime of Death.
I bet it takes forever to compile. Probably is really susceptable to gene buffer overflows too. Why can't anybody dream up a language that's both obscure and secure? Next project: Port Linux to bacteria!
[me] My %$#&#@@!!! E.Coli Computer keeps running slowly, too dangerous to my health, and is a waste of my time compared to it's electronic counterpart. Maybe if I sprinke a little um, penicillin on it, it might make it run faster [supressed snicker].
forget quantum computing I want to be the first on the block to have a fecal matter computer.
Well one can only hope that when the bacteria are released into the wild and are then mutated into some super virus (which was totally unexpected), we may have the saving grace of the virii BSOD.
;-)
Seriously though... interesting stuff... let's hope the evil people (choose your people) don't do something *evil* (or stupid) with it...
:-( --- argh. Despair, I owe again.
Is it just me that wonders why science can run along happily trying to create in reality what science fiction has been creating decades before it, yet seemingly blatantly ignoring all the lessons that were there to be learned in the science fiction stories?
Seems like there is some conspiracy, but something tells me that its just stupid human tricks to do things to see if they can, then stand back and wonder why it all went wrong?
Yes, it would be good to have programmed virii that might devour an oil spill then die harmlessly, or bacteria that can be injected into a chemical spill to clean it up, or down an oil well to preprocess the crude to make it easily recoverd from the ground....
Its just that no one seems to be working on figuring out the dangers at the same time as people are working on the possibilities...
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I have just the supercomputer in my backyard. 2 months worth of laundry with lots of 'programs' on them.
Perhaps the first program will be a cellular Autonoma simmulation. They could program it to play the game of Life.
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If you want to produce bioterrorism chemicals just produce them. Don't make a friggin' computer.
There was an article on similar technology in the May 2004 edition of Scientific American. More info here: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0009FCA 4-1A8F-1085-94F483414B7F0000&sc=I100322/.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
I'm afraid these nobel scientists didn't stop to look at the bigger picture of what they're doing.
In a world after columbine, kids will soon be getting their hands on programmable bacteria kits and command them to give that class bully a case diahrrea.
The last thing you want is something to go wrong playing with this stuff. What if the bacteria mutates and no longer does its programmed purpose? What if it does something much worse?
Screw that shit, you pedestrian fools with your lack of vision. This is a big step in the science of eruntics! Now I just need to train those yeasty little bitches to tell me next Wedensday's lotto numbers!
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Bacteria based computers? My computer was wiped out by a virus, you insensitive clod!
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Now here's a real opportunity for a GNU license. Since Cell's carry their own genomes (and plasmids) one is in effect distributing the source code when you distribute the bugs. Plus there's the real opportunity for Viral Marketing (yes I know mr Bio nazi, bacteria are not viruses).
Actually what I find interesting here is not the applications but the opportunity to study something that is intermediate to a single cellular organism community and a multi-cellualr organism: Geometrically coupled, self organizing communities that communicate. Presumably the plasmids that cause this to happen will quickly find their way out of the lab and into the wild. At some point some natural community will find some selective advantage in being a tightly coupled community.
Since the the communication protocols they are developing are inteded to allow computation, it is plausible that the advantage some cwild community will derive from this will be based on non-trivial computation. Thus Thinking structures in bacteria may evolve from this.
You wont just think you have a cold. Rather your cold may have a think. (yes mr bio nazi I know colds are viruses)
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Please don't be offended at the subject, it is intended in the best spirit of Wicked Witch of the West broom-riding cackling.
Mod tards: This is drooling paranoid drivel. It is not even logical or relevant if you read the article.
I for one welcome our genetically engineered bacteria overlords.
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It may be used to cool air marshals as they look for terrorist devices. Please fund me.
The last time i saw a computer assembling itself into a complex shape it didn't need instructions to accomplish that. Gravity is pretty much all it took.
Sample this!
Once we've reached this point, seriously, how close to nanotechnology are we? What are the limits of this technology? It seems to me like bacteria are basically rather sophisticated nanomachines. If this article isn't hyperbole and we can basically program bacteria... well, at first glance it seems like we could just skip the entire hard part of nanomachinery construction and use the nanomachines nature's built for us.
Failing that, I like the idea of a computer-slaved zombified bacteria invasion.
<Steve McQueen> THE ZOMBIES! THEY ARE COMING! THERE ARE MILLIONS OF THEM! THEY'RE RIGHT BEHIND ME!
<Bystander> Um, I don't see anything.
<Steve McQueen> Well they're really small.
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than being controlled by a machine.
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When is a bioterrorism chemical not a bioterrorism chemical?
When the boogey man does not have it.
Unfortunately the scientists in this case were all reading Asimov and Heinlein, and so believed that all they had to do was be very smart and discover things and much younger beautiful women would unexpectedly materialize and fall in love with them for no apparent reason.
This rather dampened the stories' also-present warnings in their mind.
*shakes fist* ASIMOV, YOUR INABILITY TO WRITE BELIEVABLE THREE-DIMENSIONAL FEMALE CHARACTERS HAS DAMNED THE VERY EXISTENCE OF HUMANITY!
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Imagine programming the bugs to spell out your message (a la Contact), and sending them out into the Galaxy by the billions. If they ever found a habitat, they'd reproduce and cover any available surface with your data.
I hope they make bacteria to selectively kill anyone. This world is overfilled with resource wasting humans that would better be fertilizer and more useful in the long run.
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Perhaps, to get your e coli computer to run faster, try exlax rather than penicillin?
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First off, here's the web page for Ron Weiss, the scientist mentioned in the article.
Here's (what I think is) the relevant publication on the topic:
A synthetic multicellular system for programmed pattern formation
Subhayu Basu, Yoram Gerchman, Cynthia H. Collins, Frances H. Arnold and Ron Weiss
Nature 434, 1130-1134 (28 April 2005)
Pattern formation is a hallmark of coordinated cell behaviour in both single and multicellular organisms1, 2, 3. It typically involves cellcell communication and intracellular signal processing. Here we show a synthetic multicellular system in which genetically engineered 'receiver' cells are programmed to form ring-like patterns of differentiation based on chemical gradients of an acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL) signal that is synthesized by 'sender' cells. In receiver cells, 'band-detect' gene networks respond to user-defined ranges of AHL concentrations. By fusing different fluorescent proteins as outputs of network variants, an initially undifferentiated 'lawn' of receivers is engineered to form a bullseye pattern around a sender colony. Other patterns, such as ellipses and clovers, are achieved by placing senders in different configurations. Experimental and theoretical analyses reveal which kinetic parameters most significantly affect ring development over time. Construction and study of such synthetic multicellular systems can improve our quantitative understanding of naturally occurring developmental processes and may foster applications in tissue engineering, biomaterial fabrication and biosensing.
This conference abstract is also pretty darned cool:
Dynamic Control in a Coordinated Multi-Cellular Maze Solving System
Hsu, Allen (Princeton Univ.), Vijayan, Vikram (Princeton Univ.), Fomundam, Lawrence (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County), Gerchman, Yoram (Princeton Univ.), Basu, Subhayu (Princeton Univ.), Karig, David (Princeton Univ.), Hooshangi, Sara (Princeton Univ.), Weiss, Ron (Princeton Univ.)
2005 American Control Conference
Control system theory provides convenient tools and concepts for describing and analyzing complex cell functions. In this paper we demonstrate the use of control theory to forward-engineer a complex synthetic gene network constructed from several modular components. Specifically, we present the design and simulation of a synthetic multi-cellular maze-solving system. Here, bacterial cells are programmed to use artificial cell-to-cell communication and regulatory feedback in order to illuminate the correct path in a user-defined maze of cells arranged on a surface. Simulations were used to analyze the system's spatiotemporal dynamics and sensitivity to various kinetic parameters. Experiments with Escherichia coli were carried out to characterize the diffusion properties of artificial cell-to-cell communication based on bacterial quorum sensing systems. The rational design process and simulation tools employed in this study provide an example for future engineering of complex synthetic gene networks comprising multiple control system motifs.
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Last week, Dr. Drew Endy from MIT gave a talk to the University of Washington's CSE department on Building Biological Systems (PowerPoint slides are here).
At first glance, building biological systems seems like a pretty daunting task. You have all of these As, Ts, Gs, and Cs, and your task is to figure out how to order them to make your system work as specified. And unlike computers that were engineered by humans, the biological mechanisms that work on DNA aren't completely understood.
However, a promising method of engineering biological systems is to abstract them into systems, devices, and parts. One of the interesting things they're doing is building a repository of biological parts, available at http://parts.mit.edu/. These parts use a standardize way of communicating with each other, allowing you to combine them easily.
Using these parts, college students are able to engineer biological systems in a single quarter. In fact, there's been a few intercollegiate biological engineering competitions, linked to from the MIT Parts site.
Yes, you guys have it so rough.
Idiots. If only the Vietnamese could shed a tear for your pain. You know, if fucking Agent Orange hadn't fucking burned their fucking tear ducts.
...this whole time the non-showering geeks were really trying to take over the world.
And judging by the smell, we're doomed...DOOMED!!
I am getting the feeling that this sentiment is mostly directed from outside of the United States. Those within the United States that feel this way are undoubtedly a very small percentage, even of the "Bush-haters" and "crazy liberals". Thank you for insulting a large number of people who don't feel that way. There are some seriously FUCKED IN THE HEAD "conservatives" and "republicans" too. So in the spirit of your "lump about 100 million americans together and label them fucking hippie terroist satan-worshipping morons" FUCK THE HELL OFF, BRAINWASHED NAZI CUNT. :)
More recent, January 2005, about what they are doing at MIT on synthetic biology.
Here.
Interesting stuff
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What happens when the E. Coli bacteria learn how to assemble themselves into a delicious looking Oreo (tm) cookie and mass crapping ensues? Sounds more like bio-terrorism rather than a detector of it.
God save us.
I assume you mean 1984.
Look, all I hear about are liberals bashing our troops, claiming that 9/11 was our fault, and saying that we breed terrorism. I mean, wtf? We're FIGHTING terrorism. It's leftist propaganda that's ruining this country right now I tell you.
The US govt will piss any amount of money at "Homeland Security". To get a slice of the action you just need to draw some tentative link between your new technology and the "War on terrorism".
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Well, remember what made VHS take off for the home consumers?
Now imagine this same technology applied here.. who needs those rubber blow up dolls, soon we can just buy these huge cement-mix-sized sacks of chemicals, mix them together in a bathtub, and watch them assemble themselves into a girl shaped object!
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but I think "bioterrorism detection" is simply a buzzword that helps attract a lot of money. Especially the use of the word "future" implies that they have not really an idea what to use their invention for. It's simply a neat trick. It has been done before, by the way, on a much smaller scale: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v394/n6693/ab s/394539a0_fs.html
Redundant? That would assume his sentiment is obvious. It's disgusting. It's so clearly a troll.
First, imagine all of the cosmetic applications. e.Perfume, where bacteria customize your scent to the mood, time, place, etc. e.Make up, where similar changes happen with ladies makeup. e.Coli, for your customized smell in lavatory situations or those gassy days that you just need to let it out in a public place. e.Antiacne, where bacteria take the role of making you a teenager with nice skin.
Now, that you're the nicest smelling, great skinned, attractor of the opposite sex, you can use your e.birthcontrol to increase sponteneity and maybe even prevent unwanted STD transmission. Maybe even e.extrasensation. Well enough of that.
Now, we adapt this to yeast and give the brewmasters the ultimate in control of their fermentations. Want a perfect high gravity, never stuck fermentation, or other difficult beer done right every time? Use e.Brew.
I better stop. I could go on all morning.
Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
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Nothing about this 'double think' of which you speak though
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The United States of America are very involved in terrorism. Osama Bin Laden was trained in terrorism by the CIA. That's not "tin foil hat" talk, that's a known, admitted-by-the-CIA fact. The U.S. government has also been the force that got Pappa Doc, Manuel Noriega, and the Shah of Iran into power, just to name a few. These are verified, undisputed (by the government - hotly disputed by the "US can do no wrong" crowd) facts, not liberal propaganda. Even in Afghanistan, the Taliban was able to gain control because the people couldn't tolerate the warlords empowered by the CIA to fight the Russians. The same warlords placed back in power during the "liberation" of Afghanistan.
As for proof, there are plenty of records of this, available from the government itself through the Freedom of Information Act. The government freely admits to doing these things, and use the mistakes they made in the past to justify making the same mistakes again today. "We shouldn't have done that, but now they hate us so we have to kick their butts again" is standard operating procedure. That's not liberal hogwash - that's known fact - undisputed by anyone except a few obsessive nationalists like yourself.
The US government has sponsored and trained terrorists for over 40 years, all in the name of "peace" and "democracy". I'm not saying this because I hate America, but because I am an American patriot who believes in what the Constitution. The American government has enabled, encouraged, and full on participated in atrocities when ever the powers-that-be have decided it was expedient.
I don't condone terrorism, no matter who's committing it. But do you really think people would be willing to die just to hurt the US without any reason? Terrorism is the price America pays for it's hubris. While our pride and unrelenting arrogance don't justify terrorism, they are the root cause of it.
People like you, who throw out logic and compassion in exchange for jingoistic egotism are what is ruining the country I love. You are the people who talk about bringing Democracy to the world when we don't even truly have it in the US. The government brags about bringing "fair and impartial" elections to Iraq, because they can't brag about having them here in the US.
A true American Patriot follows his own morals, not his president. If your morals align with our current governments, then you are a traitor to the very ideals that are supposed to set us above all the commies and terrorists.
Tommy
BTW, I could have just modded you down for trolling, but I don't want people in other counties to think that most of America are as screwed up as you. It seemed more important to let people know that most Americans think you are an asshat. Unfortunately, after two illegal and constitutionally invalid elections most Americans have realized that "the people" no longer run America.Open Source for Open Minds
"Though applications may not come for awhile, the article says that in the future this technology may be used in devices to detect bioterrorism chemicals." Come on, do we really need to have the terrorism angle pointed out for every new technology that comes along??? It's BS to get science funding cause apparently the only R&D budget the U.S. still subsidizes is military and anti-terrorism. I swear, it's only a matter of time before people start trying to claim research into the drag coefficient of sheep over various surfaces (See: http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#i g2003Ignobel Awards ) qualifies as an anti-terrorism expenditure.
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If he had managed to get bacteria to arrange themselves in a bulls-eye or heart pattern, that would be sort of neat. Not really science, and not really useful, but sort of neat.
However, what he has actually done is arrange bacteria in a bulls-eye or heart pattern around some sort of preexisting central source(s). The difference may seem slight to a computer scientist, but it is completely different from a biological point of view. Arrangement around a source is a much easier problem.
Next time, come over to my place. I'll fill your stomach.
I hope they don't take commenting their code too seriously.
Woops, this gene sequence explains what that other gene sequence does but somehow the checksum triggered it to override the other one so now it runs amok eating everything in its path.
If we ever kill ourselves off as the dominant species and those bacteria evolve into a new life form that then looks at its gene sequence, I wonder what they'd think?
'This following section here keys in on seron gas and will grow an extra appendage - a mouth in this case (appendage = growExtraMouth()), ingest it (suckItUp(appendage)), break it down (breakToxinDown(appendage)) and recycle the extra mouth when done (recycleMouth(appendage)). Hopefully the gas doesn't trigger a bus error'....
Wow, sounds like the end of life as we know it.
it might be used in three to five years to make devices that could detect bioterrorism chemicals.
Yeah, did I tell you about my DNA-based Cellular Autonomous Terminator ? It's very good at searching&destroying living organisms, and it already has a stealth mode, night vision and laser-based target designation. Gimme funding and I'll see what I can do about homeland security.
another team led by Weiss showed they could insert DNA into cells to make them behave like digital circuits.
OK, now that sounds interesting. But the March 8 paper is about robustness of feedback loops in biological systems. Directed evolution of a genetic circuit does have logic gates though.
But we don't need life to produce nice regular chemical patterns. See e.g. reaction-diffusion systems. The whole point of synthetic biology would be self-assembly self-replication. So wake me up with sexy headlines when we know how to compile some Turing-complete language to DNA.
Until then, editors should have a rule about anti-terror plugs in articles, e.g. "three times and you're out".
I think these will be widely available before Longhorn...
Wow. I think that was the most objective, rational, and valid post I have read on /. in quite a while. Very many good points were made without the flailing of vulgarities, emotions or other such useless drivel!
I'm sorry, man, but neither I nor the MAJORITY of Americans in this country are buying it. Take a look at our president -- he's your president too, you know. He's being a leader and it's up to you to be part of the solution, not part of the whining, complaining problem. MOST AMERICANS think like I do, and put the president back in power because he's doing a good job, and we'll put the next Republican in power because he'll do a good job too.
btw, your post had no links, so you'll pardon me if I call bullshit on your claims.
this now when I almost finished "Inside i386"...
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Who needs a grain of rice when you can get your name written on a smallest living object - a single cell!
Did you know that "FTW" ("for the win") is a direct translation of "Sieg Heil"?
in a post 9/11 world, all bacteria are a little nervous.
You might find one here
mod -1 missed the joke.
or maybe I had a sense of humour failure... that's as likely.
Screw you all! I'm off to the pub
What do we call these things? Lets coin some phrases... Bachines / Bachinery?
Bactronics. Bacnology. Bacware. Bacbots.
Use these in your SF work, and get me a free account.
More then that, when are Disney going to sue researchers for actually making a tiny self-assembling Mickey? When will advertisers make bacteria embedded in foods, that when you throw up, form into an ad?
"The Nobel Prizes earned by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod are but two of the dozen that by my account are affiliated with E. coli. The overall scientific literature alluding to E. coli now encompasses over 100,000 publications; Google reports almost 3 million hits with 'coli'on the World Wide Web."
J. Monod's book Chance and Necessity is an eye opening read, perhaps dated now, but stimulating in terms of the philosophy of science coming out or genetic research.
Another deeply studied life form Drosophila melanogaster, like e.coli, carries with it such a huge body of work that it, likewise, probably tends to attract and disseminate novel research.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
> we'll put the next Republican in power because he'll do a good job too
Excuse me Sir, did you vote Nixon in 1972?
FSF already made a program to act like virus for decades. (j/k everybody knows that GPL is not about viral but derivative and communism)
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your herd mentality is precisely why a bio/nuclear attack in the USA is inevitable.
just a matter of time. you'll whine then too.
Microsoft are said to be very interested in this new technology. They have released a provisional price list of 100 dollars per processor OEM. 269 dollars per processor Retail.
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btw, your post had no links, so you'll pardon me if I call bullshit on your claims.
Just because you bury your head in the sand like an ostrich doesn't make it any less true. Quit trying to waste even more of other peoples time trying to open your eyes to things that, to most the Bush-fearing world are general knowledge and do your own research, i think the link you're looking for is here
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A little off-topic (but interesting) bit of trivia, is that Osama's code-name in the CIA was Tim Osman.
You didn't seem to fight it too much when you were paying for the IRA to kill civilians in the UK.
in the future this technology may be used in devices to detect bioterrorism chemicals
I call the authors cynical, beabling on about "Homeland Security" because that's currently a good way to get funding.
I think this is going to be more useful for medicine, as another tool for quicker and more accurate diagnostic tests.
In a paper March 8 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, another team led by Weiss showed they could insert DNA into cells to make them behave like digital circuits."
This is awesome! Now it will be easier for people to 'do the robot.'
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Doctor : "you've contracted a new strain" .. hey doc, got any acid?"
Patient: "Is there any medication for it"
Doctor : "No, but for fifty thousand jillion dollars your insurance will pick up the tab for the diarreah pills, and you get these really cool pictures of your bacteria forming some groovy colors and shapes."
Patient: "Cool!!
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Excuse me Sir, did you vote Nixon in 1972?
Hard as it is to imagine, the current US president makes me nostalgic for Nixon. Seriously. I don't think the US has had a president like George W Bush since Andrew Jackson promoted "spoilsmanship".
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btw, your post had no links, so you'll pardon me if I call bullshit on your claims.
As if most of your post didn't already tell us what we needed to know, this final line told us not only were you too stupid to think for yourself, but you're also too stupid to use Google.
There's a reason people like you make most rational Americans very unhappy with the state of our nation. It's the same reason the rest of the world is really getting tired of US bullshit.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
Which was a good idea. I cannot speak for my whole country (Belgium, which has problems of its own, btw), let alone _all_ other countries of course. But the US are seen as ignorant navel-gazers who are surprised that terrorist attack them, and go and reinforce what THEY (U.S.) think is right, as a 'police of the world'. Attacking other countries under false pretences, holding prisoners without trial for years, not caring about treaties, not caring about shooting former hostages (Guiliana), just because that is part of their policital agenda. And then the US is surprised that nobody loves them.
So it is nice to see some Americans remember what democracy and freedom it was all about...
Software has had bugs forever. Now the bugs have software.
But do you really think people would be willing to die just to hurt the US without any reason? Terrorism is the price America pays for it's hubris. While our pride and unrelenting arrogance don't justify terrorism, they are the root cause of it.
You know, you'd of had to hold a gun to my head to get me to vote for Bush, and I too am frequently embarassed by America's hubris, but I no more believe Bush than I believe this narrow, simplistic explanation for radical islamic behavior.
Imagine a cluster of bacteria!!!!
Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.
Just because your views are what is shown on TV doesn't make them the majority. George Bush and his murderous cronies certainly don't represent me. George Bush is doing a good job? Are you mad? He is a traitor, and a fiend (A diabolically evil or wicked person).
But like, come on dude, your post didn't contain any links! Links are the life blood of the Internet, and if you're not with the Internet, you're against it. You're not some internet hating traitor, are you? Support our Internet!
-- Al Gore.
I wonder if they'd be overclocking tolerant, and if so, I also wonder how well they'd work in a beowulf cluster...
Game! - Where the stick is mightier than the sword!
I keep seeing this big lie printed everywhere, despite the fact that it isn't true. Every time it's posted, there's never a link to a single credible source that backs anything up. If someone makes a claim that big, and no credible source ever discusses it, that should make your bullshit detectors start sounding.
The truth is that the US helped train and equip native Afghans to fight the Soviets. The Afghans we trained were not the Taliban. The Taliban were Islamic students at radical madrassahs during the war. (The name Taliban is the Arabic word for "students"). Bin Laden's group were the "Afghan Arabs," and the name al-Qaeda comes from the Arabic word qaedat bayanat, or "database." Al-Qaeda was original bin Laden's list of Arab fighters in Afghanistan.
The native Afghanis hate the Arabs, and still do. The Arabs didn't particularly care for the Afghans, and really hated the US. The Arabs didn't take money from the CIA, and they wouldn't have. The Afghans were more than happy to do so.
The native Afghan fighters fought against the Taliban in the civil war, and were pushed back to the Tajik frontiers by 2001. Their leader, Ahmed Shah Masood (the Lion of Pansjir) was one of the CIA's top contacts during the war with the Soviets, and was the founder of the Northern Alliance. Bin Laden had him killed 2 days before 9/11 to help keep the Taliban on his side.
Those same Afghans who fought with the Americans against the Soviets were the same Afghans who fought with the Americans against the Taliban.
You, sir, should open an good history book!
Yes. You have to have some angle to satisfy the bureaucrats so thay can placate their constituants (not satisfy them, they only satisfy those that voluntarily pay them large sums).
No, they don't hate us 'for our freedom.' But they also don't hate us for opposing the USSR. They hate us because we won't submit to their bloody, violent, backwards, worthless piece of crap religion. Islam has the goal of world domination and we are the targets because we won't submit to enslavement.
Though applications may not come for awhile,
Other news - we will we have to wait a while for correct English / proffreading skills on/.
I always love to hear a peaceful, tolerant, loving liberal rant and scream like a 5 year old in handcuffs. Liberals have lost it and your post points out this fact. There once was a time when being a Liberal was a good thing, the reason why the United States exsists as a country is because a bunch of liberals, had the guts to thumb their noses at the King of England. No longer are liberals the progressives, they have become the "depressives" living in a world of doom and gloom. Dwelling on the bad, but offering no real answers to fix the problems. Yes we have made gross mistakes in foreign policy, this is nothing new, hasn't changed since LBJ. When you make a mistake, there are two things you can do, either hide your head and hope no one finds out, or deal with the mistake and do your best to right the wrong. We trained madmen to fight the Soviets, the Soviets trained madmen to fight us. The madmen we created attacked us and the madmen the Soviets created attacked Russia. Now we have to break out the shovels and clean up the horse crap we are responsible spreading. I for one, am glad, that you as a Liberal, can Americ-bash, with out getting arrested, tortured and executed, it means we are still better than some countries out there.
I hope you find peace in your life. As my Grandmother said on her 101st birthday. "Nothing ages you faster than a bitter heart, nothing forestalls old age better than a greacious spirit."
My botNet will be the envy of the world... milions of blondes with the soul purpose in life to flood the hell out of anyone who dares mock me on irc
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It is fascinating to me how human beings can be so full of themselves to call a bullseye a "complex shape". Newsflash: The human body and all the mechanisms within it is a "complex shape" that is instigated and maintained by cell-cell communication. To me, this article just shows how far we are behind controlling the actual root processes involved in biological systems. This is like a pre-historic artist in a cave writing with his own feces on the wall of some cliff somewhere, while the complex artistic qualities of nature are all around him. Scientists, what will they think of next.
How about Luis Posada Carriles? He is wanted by Venezuela for a plane bombing where about 70 people died. He is wanted in connection with numours assassination attemts by Cuba. He has proven ties with CIA and he is in Florida right now, seeking asylum. Interestingly, the US media is silent on the issue, with only a few article by Miami Herald and several brief mentions in some minor papers.
The United States is questioned in the UN, Cuba and Venezuela demand a response, but the US government is silent. They know better. They understand that if the media is not allowed to raise a stink, the issue will die down and noone will be aware of the crimes committed by CIA. Noone will realise that US does support terrorists, real terrorists that blow planes. And if anyone will tell the US public, it will react with indignation, because "everybody knows that the United States doesn't get involved in terrorism".
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This is a lie. Soviet Union never planned on a world revolution after the WW2. And it always stuck to the agreements with the West, because peace was seen as more important than supporting communism. Soviet Union was no invading 3rd world countries, unlike the US (Vietnam, Korea, etc.), it was supporting democratically elected socialist governments. Unlike the US that for some reason supported authoritarian dictators (Pinochet, Noriega, Batista, etc.).
Soviet Union was not planning on attacking the US or European countries. But if you read now open documents from the Cold War planners (50 years has passed, they are available), you will realise that it was the US that was planning on destroying the Soviet Union. It was the Soviet Union that had to defend itself.
If you use some common sense, you will realise that Soviet Union had no reason to invade countries - after all, it was supporting the 3rd world countries, by building factories, hydroelectric dams, providing engineers, training local specialists, etc., while the US was milking the colonies for resources.
Capitalist countries are imperialistic. Soviet Union could not be and wasn't and the fact that you believe the American propaganda is very sad.
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Isn't it ironic, that the people who give the US shame around the world are it's so-called "Patriots"? At the other side of the coin, the people who the US a good name are people like yourself whom the "Patriots" label as traitors/whatnot...
Don't worry, most people around world aren't like your so-called "Patriots". We are rational like you, and we know that what the US goverment does around the world is not what real Americans stand for.
I think you mispelled "51% of those Americans who bothered to vote."
BOSS: "Your programming is complete SHIT!"
ME: "EXACTLY!"
"He's being a leader and it's up to you to be part of the solution, not part of the whining, complaining problem."
Wrong. As a citizen, my only responsibility is to my country, not to any of its (temporary) leaders. I'll do what I think is best for the USA, even that means opposing current leadership.
Now that I think of it, you've got things almost completely backwards. The citizenry of the United States has no responsibility whatsoever to be loyal to the President. The President, however, *does* have a responsibilty to be loyal to the citizenry. After all, we put him there to act on our behalf and for our benefit.
And he doesn't seem to be doing that very well.
It's a beowulf cluster
Does this mean I can turn the back of my refrigerator into another web server?
It's called Windows. Infects growing organisms and causes them to die or malfunction. Spreads freely. Is agressive and immune to the usual agents.
MOST AMERICANS think like I do, and put the president back in power because he's doing a good job
You, and people like you, are the reason I don't vote.
I am not proud of my failure to vote. I admit that I am probably being hypocritical and/or cynical. But I have a hard time getting over the fact that for every one of me, there are ten of you. My intelligent and independent vote is always overpowered by your obedient zombie-votes.
I have heard this voiced as a fundamental criticism of the democratic ideal: the least intelligent, most-impressionable masses wind up controlling the country. As much as I love the idea of "the people" controlling their destiny, I can't find any good reason to disagree with Plato's assertion that truth (and power) are outright dangerous in the hands of the masses.
You, sir, and your president, are proof of this.
--AC
I wonder if someone can start programming some bacteria and release them under the GPL?
http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/.Pictures/quiet.j pg
The article also has pictures of the programmed E. coli.
"Oh, come on, you just pulled those numbers out of your ass."
"Well, that's where I keep my computing resources. If you pass me that bowl of brussels sprouts, I'll show you how far I've gotten on MP3 playback."
Jingoistic egotism killed the people who were obstacles to building the country you love. Force and violence expanded it and secured it, as they do all other major nations. Quit being a naive little bitch and get a clue.
I don't give a damn about "fair and impartial" anything. I want my co-ideologists to win, period full stop."But do you really think people would be willing to die just to hurt the US without any reason?" No, but they understand that their culture and religion are inherently incompatible with modern civilisation so they, rightly from their POV seek to destroy it. Those who disagree should think as clearly and be as ruthless as our forbears who fought Islam to a standstill and saved Europe.
I hope the conflict becomes so polarising that people like yourself are deprived of the choice to upt out and are forced to fight.
On the other hand, the same ability could be used to key bacteria to a specific person, to discharge a certain enzyme or chemical at a set time or duration, then expire, leading to an interesting way to poison a specific person.
That said, said technology is probably pretty far out in the future. I have not read TFA, but I suspect the "programming" is on the level of creating an adder or coding it to follow the route of a maze.
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Alot of your points are very valid but you expose your ignorance with the whole traitor talk stuff. Just as the people who currently disagree with the Bush crowd can be patroits so can those who agree. It's usually a difference of underlying priorities, perceived trusted parties, and different areas of expertise that results in the disagreement not one group or the other being traitors or stupid. That's why it's so important to hear all side because people with differing perspectives all add to the best picture of the truth possible, at lest for complex issues.
This is just wrong.. I believe that bacteria are also living things and are not to be tortured by us. It is time for humans to stop thinking that we are the sole owners of this planet.
Each day we come up with new ideas to torture, kill, humiliate fellow living things. Just because we are capable of things does not mean we should do it. We are also the only living things capable of understanding what we are doing. So time to stop all this.
Where the entire planet is a large computer where the purpose is to work out the meaning of life.
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literally. What could we do with this? I immediately thought of a problem it might help to solve. How do you get wires into a person's brain, in millions or billions of places, to read and write to individual neurons. We've seen articles recently that talk about using our brains to control devices, or using these probes to read neurons and decode the information. I wonder if these bacteria could be used somehow to grow very tiny wires throughout an entire brain which could provide a was to read and write information to the brain.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Scenario --
-- the plans to store carbon dioxide in old oilfields go forward.
-- the CO2 being injected into the old oil fields is, of course, contaminated by bacterial computer components.
-- bacteria, being present in almost every geological structure for a mile or so below the surface, provide both a vast number of components and a rapid rate of evolutionary selection. Earth wakes up.
-- Earth sneezes. We're gone.
"Unfortunately, after two illegal and constitutionally invalid elections..."
Which elections would those be??
"...the least intelligent..."
Is that why the majority of the US is Republican?
"If you use some common sense, you will realise that Soviet Union had no reason to invade countries - after all, it was supporting the 3rd world countries, by building factories, hydroelectric dams, providing engineers, training local specialists, etc., while the US was milking the colonies for resources."
t -U nion-invades-Afghanistan)
Ok, so when Soviet Union uses it's power in another country it is helping, but when the USA does the SAME THING it is imperialism?
The Soviets were helping because they knew that they would get something in return. They also realized that their system would not support itself; in order to maintain a living standard (which they couldn't do) they would need to continue to obtain new property from which to extract resources. This is exactly what colonialist Europe was about in the 1800's, except the Europeans weren't doing it to survive, they were doing it to thrive.
"Soviet Union was no [sic] invading 3rd world countries"
Am I the only one that remembers Afghanistan??
(http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Sovie
"The war was regarded by many as an unprovoked invasion of a sovereign country by another. The United Nations General Assembly passed United Nations Resolution 37/37 on November 29, 1983, which stated that the Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan. However, others supported the Soviet Union, regarding it as coming to the rescue of an impoverished ally, or as a pre-emptive war against Islamist terrorists."
Sounds awfully familiar, doesn't it? Yet, the USA is the bad guy, while the USSR is the downtrodden, lone hero surrounded by a world of evil.
1.) Cite the sources of all your "facts"
2.) Stop blaming America for all the shitheads who have come and gone as leaders / terrorists / dictators in other "nations" who you claim are "installed" by American government.
If you read world history, you will see that it was a brutal, warring, vulgar, power-hungry sewer with "nations" coming and going with the ever-shifting borders of warring tribes and ethnic groups. This was the status quo for millenia.
Over two centuries ago, the United States came into being and inherited a lot of the baggage of the world, like slavery, warfare, etc.
But the U.S. eventually rid itself of slavery and the rest of the world followed.
Just a handful of decades ago, the Germans were ignorant enough to believe they were some "Master Race"...ha ha...what a joke, but 100 million people had to die to prove them wrong. It took American combat to help turn the tide. Imperfect America compromised with Stalin and cut Germany in half, but notice that the half that Imperfect America was protecting became a flourishing democracy and economic powerhouse and the half that Russia controlled was a brutal dictatorship, not fit for dogs.
Same example applies to the Japanese...a bunch of dumbfuck "suicide bombers" who believed their Emperor was God and caused death and misery everywhere they went until America "wake and baked" them. Was it brutal? Very. Inhumane? No doubt. Morally wrong? Perhaps. But it did end the war and teach the Japanese (like the Germans) that they weren't invincible and had no divine right to rule the world...and today, like Germany, they are a thriving democracy, sane, peaceful and friends of America.
Now we see the same historical pattern of tribal / religious ignorance, delusions of grandeur and invincibility playing out in the Islamic world...and like before...it's gonna take a lot of war from America to "tame" these monkeys, teach them hard lessons and bring them back to reality and into the fold of the human family.
Once all nations are true (and like America, imperfect) democracies, and the world is relatively peaceful, then we can all work on improving democracy itself, and possibly replacing it with something better?
Until then, the beatings will continue until morale improves!
that's ok
"MOST AMERICANS think like I do" to put it buntly: if you think differently, you're not a true american, despite the American Constitution giving you the right to do so in the very First Ammendment. quite contradictory way of thinking... i'm not american, BTW...
I don't feel like it...
in someone else's intestine, a bunch of bacteria tried to learn java but they just shit(themselves);
bush a traitor, as well as the rest of the people involved in running the government, including lobbying corporations.
Wasn't this invented in a lab along time ago? Mimicking evolution using small programs.
Islam has the goal of world domination
Listened to many evangelical Christians recently?
It's official. Most of you are morons.
Yes, George Bush is doing a good job. He does what the corporations pay him for.
Everything he's claimed was taught to me in first and second year university history and study of war courses.
If enough replies don't convice you, email me and I'll go looking for references.
I respect your political interests (and opinions) but, I don't think it should blind your vision of the world (incidently you should see <i>Fog of War</i> it's a great documentary what ever you believe). Most of the soldiers who were involved in death squads in South America were trained at the Academy of the America's (think I've got the name right - right now), i think Noreaga or his sargeants among them.
So i guess my point is you shouldn't discount the angry opinions of many others as 'whining', I think to do so would be to be blind and dismissive of the values that the US was founded on.
Mike
It's not hubris. It's defense against the Soviet Union. You may be too young to remember, but there was a time when a nation called the USSR was working to invade 3rd world countries and amass an empire. We helped stop that. And the people in, for example, Afghanistan, were very grateful for our help. When it was over, though, we simply left and let radical Muslims take over.
It's too bad Eastern Europe wasn't as important to American interests as Afghanistan. Many a Czech/Slovak/Hungarian/etc would have appreciated some intervention.
Your conclusion seems to be that these things are cause for recent terrorist actions against us. I don't think this is exactly correct. From what I've read many Arabs dislike the American government because of our military and monetary support for Israel, as well as the fact the we have troop stationed on their land (ie Saudi Arabia).
Even if all of these things are true, however, it doesn't follow that the American government has acted irresponsibly in the past and continues to do so now. The real world is full of hard choices, and maybe the best decision in the 1980's was to support the mujahadeen against the communists, even if there was a risk they would later turn against us. Is the world a better place without the Cold War but with Islamic terrorism? Are we a better country for having picked that battle and (arguably) won it?
You also seem to suggest that our responsibility for terrorism means we need a more pacifist, compromising, multilateral foreign policy. This doesn't sound like a recipe for success to me. Maybe you could provide more details on what exactly you would do differently from this administration.
BTW, nobody has found credible evidence of election fraud that would have turned the election. I have to wonder if the Democrats had done better, but with the same election abnormalities as have been reported, you would still consider the election "illegal". I somehow doubt it.
Bullshit. They hate us because they don't want us stopping them from making Muslims submit to Wahabbism -- or at least what Wahabbists want for government.
A correction my prior post called it the Academy of the America's
It's actuall School of the America's
Mike
1) Soviet Union was not a colonialist state. It didn't "extract" resources from 3rd world countries, on the contrary, it poured resources into them. Ask any Egyptian, Cuban, Vietnamese, Indian, Chinese or a person from any other country friendly to the USSR. Soviet Union provided immeasurable resources - specialists, technologies, training, equipment, everything in order to help its friends build powerful societies. The United States, as you well realise, does exactly the opposite.
2) Yeah, sorry for forgetting about Afghanistan. That's one example where the Soviet Union did invade. It was much more complicated, however, and it was indeed done to remove a threat to the security of the Soviet Union (as you can easily see on any world map). Another example was Finland - again Soviet Union had no other choice and tried to resolve matters peacefully. There were no unprovoked attacks on countries on the other side of the world with extermination of civilian populace and stuff. Heck, Soviet soldiers and officers were summarily executed for pillage in 1945 in Germany. Soviet Union wasn't an aggressive country, despite the lies perpetrated by neocons in late 1980s (watch the brilliant BBC documentary The Power of Nightmares to see how it was carried out).
The general point is still valid - Soviet Union was usually a friend, while the United States generally acts as an enemy.
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You might want to be aware of the fact that planning to commit a crime counts as conspiricy.
6 &cid=12380833. Some important points:
Also, try to work on your trolling. Sure, you've got +2 insightful as I write this, but the guy who posted that the CIA trained bin laden is at +5 http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=14772
Usually speak in generalities, and don't provide links.
When you do provide facts, make them difficult to verify, i.e. claim to have some position where you're in a position to hear privlidged information, or refer to their availablity though something that would take time and effort to verify, like the FOIA
Always make it clear that what you say is 100% true, using words like verified, undisputed, etc..., and be sure to use at least 3 of them each time you do.
If trolling against america, make it clear that you don't hate america, don't support terrorism, then go own to blame america for wearing a short skirt.
At the end, make ad homiem attacks. This is sometimes quite tricky, so make sure that you've used enough emotional rhetoric that you could advocate that babies are tastey and be modded +5 if you choose to do this.
I'd apperciate anyone who is more experienced with Trollology to expand on this.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
> It's not hubris....They hate us because we won't submit to their bloody, violent,
> backwards, worthless piece of crap religion.
And that's not hubris?
Would you prefer your diatribe against the world's billion Muslims be referred to as "arrogance" or "intolerance" or "racism" instead?
It's narrow-minded bigots like you who give America a bad name, and indirectly endanger American lives. Think about it - how many people at work passionately hate the nice, honest guy? How many hate the backstabbing bully?
Think about it.
> But the U.S. eventually rid itself of slavery and the rest of the world followed.
If by "the rest of the world followed", you mean "the US abolished slavery later than Britain, France, Spain, Sweden, Holland, and even Russia", then you're right.
Your post reflects a woeful lack of knowledge about the world outside the US, and of the truly limited role the US played in many of the events you discuss. Such ignorance does not help improve America's image.
Wired has an article on Drew Endy and Tom Knight: Life Reinvented (Issue 13.01 - January 2005). For those interested the article also illustrates how the parts can be assembled as bio bricks.
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Every multicellular plant or animal starts from a single cell. Those cells are programmed via their genetic code to assemble themselves into a specific pattern. Research has shown that this is done by means of chemical messages.
What they have done, in this case, is to insert their own instructions. The patterns are primitive, but it's a start. The next step will be to get the cells to differentiate -- that is, to take on different functions (nerve cells, muscle cells, etc.)
Before the first digital computer was made, the logic gate was invented. Think of this as a first step toward creating our own multicellular organisms, or modifying existing ones.
No, but I don't see what it has to do with whether we should all become Muslims or die.
The article says...
:) ) playing the part of terminator says that his outer skin is actually a mass of living tissue.
The research could lead to smart biological devices that could detect hazardous substances or bioterrorism chemicals, scientists say. Eventually, the process might be used to direct the construction of useful devices or the growth of new tissue, perhaps restoring function to a severed spinal cord.
Reading the above line(s) brings to mind the scenes in the movie Terminator , in which Arnold Swasnegger (sorry about the spelling
And then there is the movie matrix in which the computer takes control of every human life including their thought process.
Really scary in one way but if used in the right direction can be a boon to mankind. I guess science is a tool which can be put to constructive as well as destructive purposes. It all depends on the wielder of the tool.
On the Plus side, in the near (or far) future we might have computers which are actually made of billions of bacteria which are used to run softwares. And these computers will most probably be tiny which you can say implant just below your skin for instance. So all you have to do is go to a Information hotspot where there are monitors, keyboards and mice and just start doing your work. You may not have to plug in these devices to your computer as it will be totally wireless. Ofcourse there is a downside to this because it will be easy to track your movements . You will have to forfiet your privacy.
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Think about this. Not only can they communicate via self-created signals, but they can align themselves in configurations based off the encoding of the extra dna. You combine these techniques together, and you have an organic computer!
They could symbolize an ON(1) with red emittance, and OFF(0) with green emittance. When they receive such a signal, they move to a determined angle of their neighbor's position. With enough bacteria you end up with logic gates. With enough logic gates you end up with arithmetic. With enough arithmetic you end up with routines, and so on...
And with enough bacteria altogether, you end up with one amazing light show - and Artificial Intelligence.
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That's correct. They planned on world consolidation under a Soviet banner. They poured money and resources into the Mideast, Eastern Europe, the Far East, Africa, and South and Central America because they were building client states. The Soviets never left the conquered territory of WWII, and they continued to invade and support invasions or revolutions in other nations, like Hungary, in the years that followed. They supported subversives throughout the world. They took initiative in launching the Korean War. They planned invasion of West Germany. They plotted the overthrows in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Angola, Ethiopia, and other nations. Brezhnev created a team called "internationalists" who dressed as local citizens and mixed in with local populations until an order was given to start revolution.
It was and still is quite common to recruit 'false flag' informants by misleading targets into thinking they are being recruited by the CIA, or Mossad, or religious organizations, or peace and ecological protest organizations.
The 61st Meeting of the National Defense Council of the GDR even revealed the existence of large underground caverns with new street signs, new currencies, and medals for officers involved in an invasion of West Germany.
But you know what? I don't even need to bother. It doesn't matter what anybody says, you've made your mind up just as I have. Go crazy and believe what you want.
Yes, it is. American leadership in 1956 was wrong and we paid dearly for it. That's why we changed course later on and that's why we should continue an interventionist policy now.
As I was scrolling down the page, I read the headline "Bacteria Made to Behave as Computers
Biotech Science Posted by CowboyNeal" as
"Bacteria Made to Behave as CowboyNeal".
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"The Internet is made of cats."
I've always wondered what people mean when they say the US taught those people terrorism.
Teaching someone to build bombs is not teaching them terrorism.
Teaching someone to use those bombs against military targets is not terrorism.
Teaching someone to use those bombs against civilians to create fear in the populace IS terrorism.
So, did we tell them to blow up movie theatres or did we tell them to blow up barracks? There's a huge difference between the two.
I don't know which we did but I would like to know if the people claiming that we taught these people terrorism actually know what the hell terrorism is.