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Artificial Life May Be Possible Within Ten Years
CapedOpossum writes "According to an article from a few weeks back on CNN, researchers in the field of genetics and biology think that we may be able to artificially create life within the next decade. From the article: 'Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer. Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of 'wet artificial life. "It's going to be a big deal and everybody's going to know about it," said Mark Bedau, chief operating officer of ProtoLife of Venice, Italy, one of those in the race. Bedau said there are legitimate worries about creating life that could run amok, but there are ways of addressing it, and it will be a very long time before that is a problem.'"
Amok, amok, amok!
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we're going to *grow* flying cars?
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Since artificial life is the only kind they're every going to get!
How hard could it be to create ugly bags of mostly water?
Artificial Intelligent Design!
If you disagree with me on social issues, then it's pretty clear that you are a narrow-minded bigot.
Of killing & eating each other. That's life on earth.
... disadvantaged.
Any artificial life without that pedigree is going to be
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Let me venture a guess... 10 years?
"Hannibal's plans never work right. They just work." Amy/A-Team
Humans have become so technically evolved that they can now make a living, breathing person.
A summit of scientists believed that because they now had the power to create life, God was no longer needed. So they all decided that someone should go and tell God this. One man volunteered to go. One day he climbed a mountain and called upon God.
"God! We humans now have the ability to bring people from the dead, we can create our own life, we don't need you anymore so you can leave us alone."
God listened to the scientist and nodded his head. "Okay, I'll tell you what, if you can really create life, let's have a competition, if you can create a better person than me, I'll go, but we'll have to do it the way I did it in the old days."
So the scientist agrees and begins to collect some dirt to make his person. God simply watches him and finally asks him what he's doing.
"I'm using the dirt to make a person."
God smiles, looks at the scientist and replies, "Go make your own dirt."
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So, if I created an artificial woman I'm betting she still wouldn't go out with me.
Let me venture a guess... 10 years?
It must be a bunch of Unix developers trying to avoid having to deal with the 2038 overflow problem. Us geeks will do just about anything to slack.
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46 chromosomes ought to be enough for anybody.
"Hannibal's plans never work right. They just work." Amy/A-Team
If this takes off, I can see companies making stuff like pseudo-cows and pseudo-chickens that are cheaper to breed in the long term.
I suspect we're there already: if a McNugget isn't pseudo-chicken, what exactly is it?
Strangely, eating artificial plants wouldn't bother me as much as artificial animals.
Blurring the line would be interesting. I'm looking forward to growing a steak vine.
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I personally prefer the existing technology used to create life.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Artificial life impossible for the next 9 years.
It was funny once, maybe twice. Then it stopped being funny for a while, then it became funny again. Then it stopped being funny again. Truth is, no one knows whether of not it's funny anymore.
meh
One day a group of scientists got together and decided that man had
come a long way and no longer needed God. So they picked one
scientist to go and tell Him that they were done with Him.
The scientist walked up to God and said, "God, we've decided that we
no longer need you. We're to the point that we can clone people and
do many miraculous things, so why don't you just go on and get lost."
God listened very patiently and kindly to the man and after the
scientist was done talking, God said, "Very well, how about this,
let's say we have a man making contest." To which the scientist
replied, "OK, great!"
But God added, "Now, we're going to do this just like I did back in
the old days with Adam."
"Sure, no problem," said the scientist as he bent down to grab
himself a handful of dirt.
God just looked at him and said, "No, no, no. You don't understand. I said just like I did; you
have to go get your own dirt!"
If you disagree with me on social issues, then it's pretty clear that you are a narrow-minded bigot.