The Los Alamos Bug

Kannappan writes "'You somehow have to forget everything you know about life', says Steen Rasmussen, a colleague of Norman Packard. Packard and his team are working on creating life artificially, nicknamed The Los Alamos bug (pdf). It will be created out of a molecule called Peptide Nucleic Acid(PNA), with a blend of three different factors crucial to life, viz. containment, heredity and metabolism. The researchers believe that the synthetic lives so created will have an enormous practical value in producing clean fuels, healing injured bodies and acting as tiny diagnosticians roaming our bodies."

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Great name - making a movie?

[BigSlowTarget]

Great name - sounds like something out of a movie based on a video game. 'Outraged at the price of new labcoats Dr. Such and Such loosed the Los Alamos Bug to destroy the world.'

Hmm and Doom came out this weekend - coincidence?

God's Job Application

[aepervius]

Name : God
Age : Infinite
Adress : Cosmos
Contact : Just pray. Maybe I'll hear, who knows.


What were your prior job :
I did the "Let the light be" stuff but later Adam outsourced me for the light bulb, and replaced the imperative-tense with the switch.

Then I used to create life but lately the same Adam started to do its on its own and now I am out of job.

What are your competance : Well I can still do the plague thingy at parties. Or do apocalypse stuff on a 3*8 basis. How do you see your future : Plumbery seems good. Or electricity. Something you can't outsource and that damn Adam will need me for.