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The Los Alamos Bug

Posted by Zonk on from the not-interested-in-acting-as-a-carrier dept.

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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  1. Grey... by Private+Taco · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...goo!

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  2. There! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Intelligent design! So there! Go...go Bush?

  3. vfrist st@op! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    MAWKES ME SICK JUST

  4. Which begs the obvious question by Allnighterking · · Score: -1, Troll

    Did they get the idea from watching Voyager and 7 of 9's nanoprobes?

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  5. constructed.... by KillShill · · Score: 0, Troll

    not created.

    subtle but very important difference.

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  6. Re:Scientists need to stop playing God! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Not just a balance. There has to be a respect for our fallen nature, and a realization that any lifeform created by us will be tainted with the eternal stain of original sin.
    The issue here is that Jesus died for the sins of HUMANS, not for the sins of some hybrid AI semi-human created in a petri-dish by irresponsible scientists.
    Any intelligent life form created by man is doomed to an eternity hell, since Jesus didn't die for its sins. Do we really want this responsibility on our hands?