Posted on 08/20/2007 12:19:19 AM PDT by Stoat
[ “wet artificial life.” ]
Sorry, you mad scientists, but it’s already been created in the form of the democrat party.
“”We aren’t smart enough to design things, we just let evolution do the hard work and then we figure out what happened,” Szostak said.”
So what happens when they release some monster that ends up having unexpected consequences. Do they just claim it was a learning experience? Say they ‘make’ something that kills bugs in crops. Instead it starts eating crops and soon we have no wheat. What kinda freak egomaniacs are these clowns?
Makes me think of movies like “28 Days Later”.
I think this is kinda funny because scientists claim that all the wonderous things we have (from our eyeballs to the Universe) came about as a result of chance...yet they have to work hard and steady to produce something like this...
“Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years”Nothing like a precise time frame.
Hopefully, they’re holding their breaths.
The secret is not in the DNA but the cell walls, which would include the walls of any interior substructures. If they are intending to make simple cell walls out of a simple compound they will not make much progress. Their first cell should be a kind of ribosome.
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