Creating Artificial life

JeffKnox · Posted: Oct 08, 2007 7:35 pm Post subject: Creating Artificial life

As of October 6th, 2007

pretty cool stuff... interesting to see what comes from this...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/oct/06/genetics.climatechange

Le Jalapeno · Guest

skimmed through it, found it interesting.... Will go for the full read after heroes Smash

nick · Posted: Oct 08, 2007 8:46 pm Post subject:

I read it.

It will be interesting what passionately ignorant resistance this "issue" will walk through the door with.

<3 Sheep who have sipped the bubbly propaganda fed to them and spew it to the masses with no understanding of what's coming out of their mouth. Worthless scum.

provin1327 · Posted: Oct 08, 2007 9:06 pm Post subject:

che blanc, what are you talking about?

I think thats awsome.

nick · Posted: Oct 08, 2007 10:22 pm Post subject:

provin1327, Foreshadowing.

I can't stand people who take up a cause or a protest with no understanding of what's going on.

A lot of people are against what these scientists are doing, but with no real grounds for being so.

jboss · Kickflip Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 3210 City: Chalmette

che blanc, Yea but I don't really blame them, and by them I'm talking about the skeptics and not the total rejecters. Everybody has an innate fear of the unknown, and this is a pretty unknown subject. I think when it comes creating aritficial life we should keep a VERY close eye on what's going on and what direction scientists are taking it. If you're referring only to the scared-shitless ignorant (probably blindly religous) people, then yes I agree. All taints.

nick · Posted: Oct 09, 2007 12:20 pm Post subject:

Le Jalapeno · Guest

che blanc, you were foreshadowing and that does normally mean you look ahead Smash

B-Lane · Backside 180 Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 946 City: Towanda

dear che blanc: why is there a little spec in your sig, and on your every post? Question

JeffKnox · Posted: Oct 09, 2007 10:00 pm Post subject:

hyfliteskate, wrong thread

LKNKampus · Pop Shuvit Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 176

jboss · Kickflip Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 3210 City: Chalmette

I think I speak for all of us when I say, ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .What???"

JeffKnox · Posted: Oct 09, 2007 10:39 pm Post subject:

LKNKampus, were talking about artificial life... not artificial intelligence Smile

MrMarbles · Posted: Oct 10, 2007 7:56 am Post subject:

artifical life in the marketplace!

nick · Posted: Oct 10, 2007 8:43 am Post subject:

cowgirl · Faceplant Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 24 City: Knoxville

I don't really see this as artificial life, but rather the manipulation of already existing life. The chromosome was stripped down to bare "bones" (for lack of a better word here), leaving only what was essential to maintain life and then already existing genes were spliced in.

Personally, having already created life myself (even though she looks just like her father), I don't see this as any different from the Nazis trying to mate humans females with dogs. "Let's see what we can make!" Maybe these scientists in this instance have more noble aspirations, such reversing global warming, on their mind, but if they do indeed create bacteria that eat carbon dioxide, then what will the plants breathe? There are questions that need to be answered regarding manipulation of this sort that have nothing to do with religious fundamentalism or sheeple. They need to be answered because fiddling with the balance of life is an undertaking that must be taken with grave seriousness.

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