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"Immortal Molecule" Evolves — How Close To Synthetic Life?
An anonymous reader writes with word of ongoing work at Scripps Research Institute: "Can life arise from nothing but a chaotic assortment of basic molecules? The answer is a lot closer following a series of ingenious experiments that have shown evolution at work in non-living molecules."
You are molecules. Do you live?
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. I'm made up of molecules but as a whole I'm much more than just molecules. I'm Anonymous Coward!
What are the chanses of this thing growing and growing and......ohh dear my sink is clogged
Damnit, I made a typo. Now I'm going to hell.
Shh.
It can't be true since God didn't make it. Obviously :)
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"They're just molecules, so they do what they do until they run out of substrate. And this will go for ever it's an immortal molecule, if you like, he told a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science here in San Diego."
Later in the evening working alone, Dr DeSilva accidentally cut himself with an x-acto contaminated by his cultures. The RNA slowly overtook his own cellular composition, "blindly finding solutions that made them more successful". Ironically, he had unknowingly predicted his own end, "They do what they do until they run out of substrate". He (the self-replicating RNA by this time) was later to discover the best substrate was brainz...
And so the zombie apocalypse begins...
"The team then extracted a random subset, and put them in a new medium: ribozymes then competed with each other to consume as much of the medium as possible." Sounds like my ex-boyfriend & his beer buddies.
please evolve
Table-ized A.I.
Are these listed items AND'd together or OR'd?
Yes.
This is what philosophy education buys you: you pay to learn to enjoy hearing yourself talk. ;-)
For what it's worth, I'm partial to the materialism.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Damnit, I made a typo. Now I'm going to hell.
I think FSM would have forgiven you for the typo...
You should see how livid one I was interacting with became!
...but that sentence was just blasphemous.
Sure. Anything with nipples can live.
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I made a typo. Now I'm going to hell.
Oh jeez. They're letting everybody in these days.
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We are organized here, reproducing asexually (it's a work in progress), responding to posts...
I'm registered. therefore I am.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
When your only tool is a computer, everything looks like a computation.
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.