[dogbyte12]

Isn't that a little too Jurassic Park? Remember, the dinos were made lysine deficient so they couldn't run amock? Life imitating fiction?

[AntiGuv]

I hate excerpts.

[Riley]

"Bacteria eat anything. They eat jet fuel, oil deposits, chlorinated hydrocarbons, anything.

As long as it's free.

I must be a bacterium.

[samtheman]

What could go wrong?

:)

[farmfriend]

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[SpyGuy]

"Bacteria eat anything. They eat jet fuel, oil deposits, chlorinated hydrocarbons, anything. They will eat anything that we put out there to compete with them."

Can we get them to eat Liberals?

[KeepRight]

I thought it interesting how the article begins presuming that "3.5 billion years" ago, "nature transformed non-living matter into living things, populating Earth with a cornucopia of animals and plants." I was under the impression that those were theories concerning the origin of life, not quite scientific fact!

And what are they doing feeding jet fuel to bacteria or whatever? That's why gas prices are skyrocketing. Oh well, I suppose we'll just go exchange some more blood for oil, again. (sarcasm.)

[Joee]

Wonder how many Democrooks they can turn out in an hour?

[searchandrecovery]

From the article:
The researchers say it may be possible to make sweaters that mend themselves.

Aim high, O mighty scientists. How about a sweater that knits itself - see, that would be cool. But this is only a prelude to the final showdown, where robots (fake life) will duke it out with human-created life (real life, or life lite (in both nano and non-nano forms)) to see who or what will control Earth's future.

[Objective Reality]

God On Verge Of New 'Judgement'

[GeronL]

3.5 billion years after nature transformed non-living matter into living things

sure. prove it. were there witnesses? =o)

[Ronzo]

...scientists say they are finally ready to try their hand at creating life...

Wow...so scientists are finally going to prove creationism. And I thought they were mostly into that "evolution" thing. Who knew?

[djf]

This is like that rubbish a while back when some scientists said they think they can create a black hole.

NIMBY!!

Just cause you can do something, doesn't mean you should. For all their diplomas, etc, a few of these guys are first class idjuts.

[squidly]

Isn't that a little too Jurassic Park?

More Wrath of Khan, I think.

[RightWingAtheist]

[RightOnline]

"Life will find a way."

[Ronzo]

Isn't that a little too Jurassic Park? Remember, the dinos were made lysine deficient so they couldn't run amock? Life imitating fiction?

I take back everything bad I ever said about Michael Crichton...(ever read "PREY?")

[JimRed]

More than 3.5 billion years after nature transformed non-living matter into living things, populating Earth with a cornucopia of animals and plants, scientists say they are finally ready to try their hand at creating life.

More than 3.5 billion years after God created matter and living things, populating Earth with a cornucopia of animals and plants, scientists say they are finally ready to try their hand at playing God.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: "There's nothing we could make that could compete with the predators that are out there and have had 3 billion years to evolve," he said. "Bacteria eat anything. They eat jet fuel, oil deposits, chlorinated hydrocarbons, anything. They will eat anything that we put out there to compete with them."

Another safeguard scientists are designing to provide total control over artificial cells is to make their lives dependent on chemicals that do not exist in the environment. Withdrawing the critical chemicals would result in the death of the cells, particularly if they should escape into the environment.

Could we make them to eat Liberal DemocRATS? They when all the LibDems are gone, the new critters dies off...