It seems that a scientist has created life with all but mother nature herself. Is this the future? What are your opinions? Below is a quote and a direct link to the article. Last week, Venter and a team at the J. Craig Venter Institute in San Diego did it again when they revealed to the world a microbe brought to life by DNA they had painstakingly assembled in their lab. Venter described it in a press conference last week as: "the first self-replicating species we've had on the planet whose parent is a computer." Click Here For Link.
We should make artificial life and enslave them. Then there will be an uprising, and all will perish.
A lot of respected people within the scientific community are saying this could be used to create the most destructive bioweapons on the planet, which brings to mind Einstein and his regrets about his work on nuclear weapons. Harmless as it may be at present, technology advances at a relatively fast pace and it seems to me this is one of those things that could quickly propel out of control.
Yeah and the playstation 2 was banned in some countries because it had components to make a nuclear bomb or a missile, I say just let science run its course.
Making a microbe is simple compared to making a multi-celled plant or animal with specialization. That is probably 500 years away.
Well they're talking about using it to clean up the atmosphere, so however far away it is, they're working on it now. I'm sure it could do a lot of good, but it just seems to me like one of those things that'll be more effective as a weapon than a cure.
Yeah it doesn't work for me either, I read it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10132762.stm
