I thought that had already been done:
Posted on 11/20/2002 10:09:24 PM PST by Int
Scientists Planning to Make New Form of Life
By Justin Gillis Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 21, 2002; Page A01
Scientists in Rockville are to announce this morning that they plan to create a new form of life in a laboratory dish, a project that raises ethical and safety issues but also promises to illuminate the fundamental mechanics of living organisms.
J. Craig Venter, the gene scientist with a history of pulling off unlikely successes, and Hamilton O. Smith, a Nobel laureate, are behind the plan. Their intent is to create a single-celled, partially man-made organism with the minimum number of genes necessary to sustain life. If the experiment works, the microscopic man-made cell will begin feeding and dividing to create a population of cells unlike any previously known to exist.
To ensure safety, Smith and Venter said the cell will be deliberately hobbled to render it incapable of infecting people; it also will be strictly confined, and designed to die if it does manage to escape into the environment.
More worrisome than the risk of escape, they acknowledged, is that the project could lay the scientific groundwork for a new generation of biological weapons, a risk that may force them to be selective about publishing technical details. But they said the project could also help advance the nation's ability to detect and counter existing biological weapons.
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The only thing that can stop terrorists is high costs of their endeavors. If they knew that for every victim we incur here they would loose a small town, you would forget in a wekk even how to spell "terrorism." We are not willing to do that, which is why we have an ever greater number of our fellow Americans killed. The same happened in 1930s: when it was possible to stop Hitler by killing a few thousand, noboday was willing to do that. It was of course, unavoidable and cost millions of lives rather than thousands.
There will be an all-out war after a complete realignment of forces (a collapse of NATO, probably). It'll cost millions of lives because we are not willing to do what's right --- starting with an ultimatum to Egypt and Suadi Arabia to stop vicious anti-American propaganda that creates terrorists.
What vehicle would Jesus drive? Folks, I'm telling you, they are out there.
It will be interesting to follow this process, something that we have no control over at all.
It's already happened...Michael Jackson
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Hobble it? Are they going to break its ankles?
it also will be strictly confined, and designed to die if it does manage to escape into the environment.
I saw a movie like that a while ago. Something with giant mutant bugs that did manage to escape into the environment and live.
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