Next step, giving >Cosmo wings< !!
Or, maybe building your own pet >tarrasque< .
Actually, the first use of this technology will probably be for biological warfare. :(
Time to start splicing human and animal DNA and getting all our mythological demihumans finally.
Might take us a few tries though... after all we can't expect to get the human part of the centaur on top or the harpy wings to replace the arms properly on the first attempt, can we?
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Next step, giving >Cosmo wings< !!
Or, maybe building your own pet >tarrasque< .
Actually, the first use of this technology will probably be for biological warfare. :(
How else can we fight the aliens. We have to adjust the cold virus to do it properly.
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You know, semantics are everything.
We need to stop fear-mongering each other with catchy newsprint like "...the result is an important, and some would say troubling, step on the road to creating life in the lab."
Why not simply laude the work done and point out the advantages and potential benefits. Instead, everything is a Shelly story minus the more important psychodrama.
Why not simply laude the work done and point out the advantages and potential benefits. Instead, everything is a Shelly story minus the more important psychodrama.
Because panic/worry/fear sells better.
Sad but trueWhy not simply laude the work done and point out the advantages and potential benefits. Instead, everything is a Shelly story minus the more important psychodrama.Because panic/worry/fear sells better.
And, I think giving >Cosmo wings< wonderful idea.
Sad but trueWhy not simply laude the work done and point out the advantages and potential benefits. Instead, everything is a Shelly story minus the more important psychodrama.Because panic/worry/fear sells better.And, I think giving >Cosmo wings< wonderful idea.
No. Cosmo no wings. I would so have to clean up after him.
You know, semantics are everything.
We need to stop fear-mongering each other with catchy newsprint like "...the result is an important, and some would say troubling, step on the road to creating life in the lab."
Why not simply laude the work done and point out the advantages and potential benefits. Instead, everything is a Shelly story minus the more important psychodrama.
Because. Where do you think zombie apocalypses come from: necromancy? get real.
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Because. Where do you think zombie apocalypses come from: necromancy? get real.You know, semantics are everything.
We need to stop fear-mongering each other with catchy newsprint like "...the result is an important, and some would say troubling, step on the road to creating life in the lab."
Why not simply laude the work done and point out the advantages and potential benefits. Instead, everything is a Shelly story minus the more important psychodrama.
*rampages through the thread*
And now we have various self appointed overseers going on about scientists playing god...sighs..just let them work will ya.
In >this article< more of the politics are brought out.
However, it does not specifically mention giving >Cosmo wings< .
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it took prokaryotes millions of years to evolve to eukaryotes, its going to take us at least a couple of decades before we get there,
no this tech won't be used for bioterrorism (cause its way too techy for what they need) and don't you guys let anyone else sway you otherwise! (cause i whant to see my mini terasque!)
It's a bacterium that they have inserted a constructed genome into. Intelligent Design IS true. Who'd a thunk?
It seems to me, though, that people are unclear about the possible uses of this. For example, viruses are another beast entirely. The common cold is not mediated by bacteria. And say they DID design some horrible killer bacterium... why? The most serious use would be one that is completely resistant to antibiotics, works fast, and kills the person contaminated, while not spreading inadvertently.
News for you: A good number of streptococci already do this. Usually called flesh-eating bacteria in the press, these fit all those criteria except the resistance one. If you really wanted that too, just wait, or subject them to various antibiotics in a controlled fashion. And by the way, they have already created artificial virii, a couple of years back.
The positive uses of this are huge, however. At first, I suspect it'll be used in the production of various chemicals and compounds, later I am sure it will penetrate to most levels of industrial processes.
Worry when worrying is warranted.
If they use this in a military application to make the threat of undead hordes of flesh eating zombies real on our enemies I'm gonna be upset.
Interesting read.
If they use this in a military application to make the threat of undead hordes of flesh eating zombies real on our enemies I'm gonna be upset.
If they use this in a military application to make the threat of undead hordes of flesh eating zombies real on our enemies I'm gonna be upset.
Wrong way, you need Raccoon City.
*points in another direction more to the west*
If they use this in a military application to make the threat of undead hordes of flesh eating zombies real on our enemies I'm gonna be upset.