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A Step Closer to Creating Artificial Life
slick_shoes writes to mention that Italian researcher Giovanni Murtas has taken another step towards creating life in a test tube. "To the untrained eye, the tiny, misshapen, fatty blobs on Giovanni Murtas's microscope slide would not look very impressive. But when the Italian scientist saw their telltale green fluorescent glint he knew he had achieved something remarkable — and taken a vital step towards building a living organism from scratch. The green glow was proof that his fragile creations were capable of making their own proteins, a crucial ability of all living things and vital for carrying out all other aspects of life."
I create artificial life with a 12 pack of Genny Cream Ales and a Dominos Pizza!
This is my sig.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
welcome our green blob overlords
It all seems fine and well, what with creating life artificially but, speaking for all the red blooded American, European, African, and Asian males in the world there is just no substitute for doing it the old fashioned way.
At least that's what I hear.
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Mouse2: No Way! Get out of here! Lemme look! Darn it, looks like they have done it. What did you call them?
Mouse1: Humans.
Mouse2: What do we do now?
Mouse1: First we need to redraw the plans for the highway, we can no longer run it through Earth. It would be unethical to destroy such an advanced form of life. I never thought they will survive this long though, truth be told.
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Just wait a few billion years, and they evolve to the point where they acquire an additional capability :
- starting pointless holy wars about the subject whether they evolved spontaneously, where created by intelligent design or where by a giant flying spaghetti monster.
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"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
~ Carl Sagan That's not true. You just have to type: See? No make universe needed.
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That comes as a dependency.