Posted on 03/16/2016 1:08:57 PM PDT by LibWhacker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca
Gattaca is a 1997 American science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol. It stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, with Jude Law, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal, and Alan Arkin appearing in supporting roles.[2] The film presents a biopunk vision of a future society driven by eugenics where potential children are conceived through genetic manipulation to ensure they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents.[3] The film centers on Vincent Freeman, played by Hawke, who was conceived outside the eugenics program and struggles to overcome genetic discrimination to realize his dream of traveling into space.
The movie draws on concerns over reproductive technologies which facilitate eugenics, and the possible consequences of such technological developments for society. It also explores the idea of destiny and the ways in which it can and does govern lives. Characters in Gattaca continually battle both with society and with themselves to find their place in the world and who they are destined to be according to their genes.
The film’s title is based on the first letters of guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, the four nucleobases of DNA.[4] It was a 1997 nominee for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
Interesting concept. I would think such bacteria would not live very long after it has left it’s host. Maybe our tracking tools are about to improve.
lol! first take a good bath before robbing!!!
I wonder if my own bacteria like me or what they think of me :)
That’s how bloodhounds do it.
I’m no biologist, but I’d imagine the bacteria doesn’t need to be alive to identify it.
how do you think dogs track us?
Next science discovery : Water is Wet, could allow wet footprints to be used to track us
Dogs track our microbes?
Something I really didn't need to know.
We are just vehicles for our microbe masters.
(Yes, tracking is more realistic than an ID).
Perhaps you could bring home the bacterial evidence of the illicit affairs you have been having.
In the Future:
Wife: “Step up to my Bacteria App, dear.”
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 . . . “Those are not my bacteria! Let me get the Divorce Papers App!”
Husband: “I’m printing off the suicide gun from my Gun App!”
And...?
Locard’s exchange principle.
“Interesting concept. I would think such bacteria would not live very long after it has left it’s host. Maybe our tracking tools are about to improve.”
Doesn’t need to be alive.
The DNA is there.
Big thing is contamination, but if the polymorphisms are as unique as they are claiming (perhaps an exaggeration) contamination doesn’t even matter.
“That’s how bloodhounds do it.”
It really is a large component of how bloodhounds do it.
That is immediately what I thought of as well.
“I’m no biologist, but I’d imagine the bacteria doesn’t need to be alive to identify it.”
I am a biologist and you are correct.
The DNA needs to be as un damaged as possible.
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