Synthetic Life Becomes Reality
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From: NSA TORTURE TECHNOLOGY, NEWS and RESEARCH on 9 Jun 2010 18:43 Synthetic Life Becomes Reality http://news.discovery.com/videos/tech-synthetic-life-becomes-reality.html / ................................................................. Posted via TITANnews - Uncensored Newsgroups Access >>>> at http://www.TitanNews.com <<<< -=Every Newsgroup - Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=-
From: liberal on 11 Jun 2010 13:20
On Jun 7, 9:38 pm, Mr.B1ack <b...(a)barrk.net> wrote: > It ain't "synthetic" - it's a 'FrankenBug" ... almost > entirely working bits from a lot of species blended > together. A neat trick, but that's all. > > Nature spent a billion years (barely) making "life" work. A "billion" years????? Not closer to 3.5 billion? The first remains of living organisms date from a few hundred million years after the formation of the Earth. > When humans can really start from scratch and come up > with a completely novel lifeform THEN it's fair to say > that life has been 'created'. Although I understand your point, I think "synthetic life" is anytime we can assemble a living cell from pieces and parts that themselves are not "alive." The "completely novel" must await our understanding of how to build a cell, ie. knowing the complementary biochemical processes for an organism to survive and reproduce. |