Posted on 09/28/2014 6:56:11 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Remember the sci-fi thriller GATTACA? For those who never saw the film and/or eschewed all pop culture in the late 90’s for some reason, it was a popular movie that came out in 1997 about genetically modified human beings. Now some literally genetically modified human babies born that same year are entering their senior year of high school.
The first successful transfer of genetic material for this purpose was published in a U.S. medical journal in 1997 and then later cited in a Human Reproduction publication in 2001. Scientists injected 30 embryos in all with a third person’s genetic material. The children who have been produced by this method actually have extra snippets of mitochondrial DNA, or mtDNA, from two mothers – meaning these babies technically have three parents...
I believe prophecy will play out exactly as it states, but more likely not how many of us think, just meaning we need always to pay attention to the fine print,
Satan is the master deceiver and the first murderer (not Cain)
Notice the the word ‘it’ is translated, it shall bruise they head,
SI, Ricardo Montalbon es mas macho.
First corn, now kids? Or was it kids, then corn? What a nightmare.
Children of the Corn??
What OP means to say is they will want you to speak "blue state", but do it in spanish.
“This is going to lead to a clone of Ricardo Montalban becoming a dictator. At least we’ll have a dictator with a cool, suave accent.”
Ricardo Montalban was pretty old when he did the movie, but he was nonetheless a frightening adversary. People thought that he was wearing a body suit and/or some kind of makeup - but the makers of the Star Trek II swore that what you saw on the screen was the body of a 61-year old man in darned good shape.
And, it might not be that bad after all - I’m sure he would “explain it” to any terrorists.
And the White house will get Corinthian leather!
Sah-weeeeet!
As a 59 year old personal trainer, let me assure you that most people can have darn good shapes if they want it, well into older age. I like to run 5Ks and I’ve seen 90 year olds finishing the races. And look at Jack LaLanne in his later years. :-D He finally started losing it in his 90s, and even then he was doing great for his age and he looked good.
Ricardo Montalban es mas macho! Mui Macho!
We moved to KY from Seattle three years ago. I’m almost 61. People’s first reaction to how old I am has almost become comical. Now I just say that 45 years in the rain is the reason.
Truth be told, it’s genetic, and I bicycle commuted between 25 and 45 round trip miles (depending on the contract I was on) until cell phones made it too dangerous.
My 86 year old father left the softball team a couple of years ago, but he still does a lot of wood chopping.
And my 87 year old mother still has black hair with a few gray strands.
Quien sabe?
The boys look way too much like I did at about ten years old.
As a longtime practitioner of bicycle commuting, I wonder why you think cell phones have made the practice significantly more dangerous than before.
Sharing the road with cars has always been really dangerous.
Of course, it’s not really the cars that are the problem, it’s the drivers. :-)
Sharing the road with cars has always been really dangerous.
I look at it this way:
Imagine you were forced to move to one of two planets where everything was identical to our planet except for one thing:
On planet 1, everyone driving must have a blood alcohol level of at least .11.
On planet 2, everyone is required to be texting while they drive.
I’d pick planet one in a heartbeat. I’ve seen unbelievable things done by texting drivers. And I’ve done it myself, which is why I no longer do it. A texting driver can find themself all the way over past the right side of the bicycle lane in a heartbeat. Sure, it could happen to anyone, but it was rare before texting. Now it’s downright common.
I’d like to see texting while driving treated like drunk driving. Frankly, I think it’s MORE dangerous than any BAL below .2.
I agree with you about the dangers of texting. Had a couple close calls myself and, like you, I’ve abandoned the practice. For me, at least, it’s not reading a text that’s the problem. That doesn’t seem to be any more distracting that glancing at a map. It’s typing in a text. Though my new phone allows voice to text that is remarkably accurate. With added voice controls, texting might eventually become no more distracting than talking on the phone, which I don’t see as creating a big increase in risk, at least not for me.
However, I’ve just not seen any data that the spread of texting has resulted in a significant increase of accidents. The number of accidents per million miles has, I believe, been on a pretty steady downward trend ever since cars were invented. :-)
If that’s turned around in the last few years, it might be related to texting, but there are of course many other possible contributors.
A HUGE safety feature in my neck of the woods is creating those horizontal ridges in the centerline of two lane roads. A guy who I can only assume was texting crossed that line headed right toward me a couple months ago and you could tell that hitting those grooves is what got him to turn back into his lane.
Without those grooves, his trajectory would have made it almost impossible to avoid him completely.
I have had quite a few close calls myself. Had a bad accident almost 10 years ago, breaking my pelvis in five places. But no car was involved. Just me, the bike and a poorly sited dumpster. :)
What gets me is the number of cyclists you see who are booming along with earbuds firmly in place and pretty much bolivious (as my daughter used to say) to what is going on around them.
Getting that distracted in a car is dangerous. Doing so on a bike is very nearly suicidal, IMO.
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