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Scientists Creating Life From Scratch
Rubberbando writes "MSNBC is running a story about bioengineering organisms to do specific tasks such as produce hydrogen or ethenol. It also goes into the risks and ethical issues of playing with this sort of science. Some of the scientists involved are saying it's more of an art instead of a science due to its 'biohacking' style of experimentation."
Why have these scientists not heeded the dire warnings of Jeff Goldblum? You cannot control your creations! Life finds a way!
Their "science" and "bacteria" are going to cause random plot-convenient sex changes and bloody dismemberment of lawyers!!!
...well okay actually maybe this isn't going to be so bad
Scientist #1: I am teh l33t bi0hax0R!!!!1111!lol!!!
Scientist #2: LOL j00 r bi -- ur teh ghey!!!
Scientist #1: STFU, n00b!111!
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
I hold rights to all life and I will see you in court.
God
Good for you! That's following the scientific method! Keep that mind closed up tight! ;)
Agile Artisans
Are they using the intelligent design method, or the waiting around to see what happens on its own method?
Creating life from scratch? Who do they think they are? Darth Plagueis perhaps?
The Uncoveror: It's the real news.
Can they create me a girlfriend? how about half a girl friend?
Hillbillies have been doing this for years.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Oh great, that means that for unknown millenia there has been a deity sitting somewhere listening to complaints on war, famine, disease, etc and saying: "thats not a bug, its a feature"?
A group of scientists decided that mankind had advanced far enough that they no longer needed God. So they drew straws, and the loser went to find God. When he found Him, he dithered a bit, made some small talk about the weather, and finally came out with it.
"OK, look God," he said, "We've mastered space exploration, we can cure any disease, we can talk instantaneously with people around the world, we can clone human beings; basically, we don't need you any more."
God listened patiently. Finally He spoke.
"Tell you what," He said. "We'll settle this with a man-making contest. Each of us will make a man, and the first one to finish wins."
"Sure," said the man, who headed off to consult with his colleagues.
"Wait a minute," called God.
The man turned.
"We're going to do this the real way; the way I did it in the beginning."
"No problem," responds the man, bending down to grab a handful of clay.
"No, no, no," says God. "You get your own dirt."
bioengineering organisms to do specific tasks such as produce hydrogen or ethenol
Isn't this a form of slavery?
They risk making the Flying Spaghetti Monster furiously angry and being strangled by His Noodly Appendage. We should recognies that there are things man was not meant to do, and leave it firmly in the realm of pasta.
http://www.venganza.org/
Maybe they can creat a bionic spell checker.
Also, the obligatory:
I'd like to see a Biowulf cluster of these.
All your biohacks are belong to us!
In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan
The global economy is a great thing until you feel it locally.
Yeah typical,
"oh lets invent something because the free nature stuff cannot be patented and sold for profits"
Any one can clone natures best, cloning plants is trivial.
So - http://www.hempcar.org/
So if the damn politicans and christian nut cases would just die of cancers overnight, we could have some real prople with brains running the show to everyones benefit not just the corporate elites nutjobs.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
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