Sci/Tech Synthetic life made

[FireCat]

This is so awesome. It's so awesome I just spent 10 minutes trying to express the awesomeness in words until I gave up.

Just try until you find it.. well, you have some years to go. lol

 

[KillerChi]

I can't express in words about the awesomeness of this, so, "Holy shit" but, creating an organism the size of cat, seems like it might beat NASA's need for cash.

 

[SineCosine]

Deep down, all men want a zombie apocalypse to arrive..
So that we have an excuse to wield machine guns and fire them for no real reason =x

 

[Seprest]

"only a "slight" increase in the threat of bioweapons"

 

[ZeroThirteen]

I totally hope that, after years of research, they can develop (governmental) computer programs which can let them create life-forms in a method similar to Spore. Except at a more specific and complex level.

And then I'd get a job at the government.

 

[NightShade]

Bout time.

However critics, including some religious groups, condemned the work, with one organisation warning that artificial organisms could escape into the wild and cause environmental havoc or be turned into biological weapons. Others said Venter was playing God.

Oh come on. Bio-weapons are so easy to make already that if we're not dying yet then we probably wont. If you know what you're doing you can make them in your basement with a little bit of luck (luck can be essential, since it can either give you a harmless type of bacteria which can be used as a vaccine, or can turn into something that has 100% mortality rate, which has happened). Who doesn't want to play god. I sure do.

this is awesome, but I won't be holding my breath for some actual multicellular complex life.

 

[undeadorcjerk]

I would like to thank the internet for being there for me in my educational needs, or the random crap that happens in the world that doesn't pertain to my education.

Our chemistry teacher just today found out about the TED conference that Venter had and had to give us like a 20 minute lecture on the awesomeness of this act.... TH has had it posted for five days. Yay internet!

 

[Durandal]

I just have to say, that this is cool

thank you

 

[Lyerae]

Deep down, I'm hoping that this will lead to bio-engineered zombies taking over the world.

Does that make me a bad person?

No, it just means that you play too many Zombie Shooters. :thup: