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We are so fucking fucked as a species. Fuck us. We suck.
'Synthetic human embryos created in groundbreaking advance
Exclusive: Breakthrough could aid research into genetic disorders but raises serious ethical and legal issues'
https://www.theguardian.com/scie…
'The structures do not have a beating heart or the beginnings of a brain, but include cells that would typically go on to form the placenta, yolk sac and the embryo itself.'
- Gattaca b*tch!ideaist
- stems cells are used to grow all kinds of synthetic tissues, and I think you are overreactingmonospaced
- But even if a human could be created, it would require non synthetic genetic material, and then it would just be a regular human. Nothing bad there.monospaced
- Not to worry though, this isn’t about making people, despite the headline sensationalism. :)monospaced
- Question of time, mono...OBBTKN
- Yawn.monospaced
- Seems like a lot of people get their concept of cloning from movies and fiction. That’s the real issue.monospaced
- start slapping AI chips in them mfers soon betcotton
- scarabin0
Here’s a tour of that sub
- What would happen if the batteries went dead in that PlayStation controller? They have a plan for that?shapesalad
- The whole sub is a big NOPE! But the biggest NOPE-est part is that they seal it closed with bolts from the outside! FTS!microkorg
- He literally says there are a few backup controllers. It’s also a Logitech controller, not PlayStation. I’ve had the same one 15 years and it’s still perfect.monospaced
- maybe they got the blue tooth module off the shelf. Furloughing that these are designed to fail overtime.rootlock
- @shape they have some spares lolmilfhunter
- Logitech controllers are a weird flex.palimpsest
- Only thing worse than death is the expectation of impending death. I think by this time they are all smeared in each others feces and have already cannibalizeddrgs
- the weakest of the 5drgs
- I think focusing on the controller is silly.monospaced
- I guess the controllers also had to be inspirational for their target audience.palimpsest
- It's a good way to show how unprofessional this whole thing is, but to just assume it's the reason for the disaster is silly.monospaced
- Other than SS, I don't think anybody thinks the Logitech controller is at fault here.
Flashbacks to the Bud Light post.palimpsest - No need to sell your Logitech shares.palimpsest
- ^ FLOLgarbage
- I'm pretty sure death by implosion at that depth had to be quick.
At least they funded some science.cotton
- yuekit0
Rescuers pin hopes on French robot Victor 6000. Search teams 'remain hopeful' as oxygen supplies estimated to have run out
- What a waste of resourcesjmckinno
- If each of the rescuers aren't paid $250,000 EACH in cash, it would be total bullshit.monospaced
- Beeswax2
A massive search and rescue operation is under way in the mid Atlantic after a tourist submarine went missing during a dive to Titanic's wreck on Sunday.
Contact with the small sub was lost about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive, the US Coast Guard said.
Tour firm OceanGate said all options were being explored to rescue the five people onboard.Tickets cost $250,000 (£195,000) for an eight-day trip including dives to the wreck at a depth of 3,800m (12,500ft).
Government agencies, the US and Canadian navies and commercial deep-sea firms are helping the rescue operation, officials said.Titanic's wreck lies some 435 miles (700km) south of St John's, Newfoundland, though the rescue mission is being run from Boston, Massachusetts.
The missing craft is believed to be OceanGate's Titan submersible, a truck-sized sub that holds five people and usually dives with a four-day emergency supply of oxygen.
On Monday afternoon, Rear Adm John Mauger of the US Coast Guard told a news conference: "We anticipate there is somewhere between 70 and the full 96 hours available at this point."
Hamish Harding, a 58-year-old British billionaire businessman and explorer, is among those on the missing submarine, his family said.
The submersible usually carries a pilot, three paying guests, and what the company calls a "content expert".- Musk should be on thisfadein11
- Where do you poop?refunktion
- Their hearts will go onPhanLo
- Sea Monster?jmckinno
- Orca'ssrhadden
- Aliens?utopian
- British rescue mission for Titan was ‘blocked by US officials’ to help in the search of the OceanGate's Titan submersible. – USA #1utopian
- Have they not seen the movie? It doesn't end well.PhanLo
- make it yellow...neverscared
- @fade That would just end in people who actually know what they're doing telling him he's not qualified. Which is him in a nutshell, lol.garbage
- Then he'll falsely accuse his critics of being pedos. Rinse, repeat.garbage
- Want to look out of the window? Have to smell the toilet.shapesalad
- the toilet is in that nose cone before the window..shapesalad
- ha fade, my thoughts exactly, in my best old-timey superman impression -"This looks like a job for -Shit For Brains!!"_niko
- lol, preciselyfadein11
- fart hotboxKrassy
- Fuck around and find out.palimpsest
- It's been 2 days, they're deaddrgs
- imagine spending half a million dollars to accidentally kill your son in front of you.
Not sure that was in the brochure.Nairn - you'd think the mother ship would have a tether or something._niko
- Lol Nairn. 'I'm so sorry son' as the weight of the ocean churns them into a fleshy explosionPhanLo
- It looks like the CEO is drowned down there. Hamish Harding is one of those silly billionaires that takes "space tours" and pays for Guinness World Records.garbage
- https://observer.com…garbage
- I guess he was going for "Ugliest Posho With the Dumbest Name to Die on the Floor of The Atlantic".garbage
- Anyone getting in that thing signed a paper agreeing there was a chance they could die and that they can’t sue as a result.monospaced
- How could they sue if they're dead?Nairn
- It don't matter.
USA! USA!palimpsest
- utopian0
- https://twitter.com/…PhanLo
- geniusesPhanLo
- * hope someone changed the batteries in this thing...IRNlun6
- Gardener7
- Yay!Continuity
- *queues Iron MaidenContinuity
- finallyKrassy
- Hayoth Boner Alert!utopian
- neverscared1
Two charged after Hitler speeches played on Austrian train intercom
Snippets from Nazi leader as well as shouts of ‘Sieg Heil’ played on train running from Bregenz to ViennaTwo people have been charged in Austria for allegedly playing speeches by Adolf Hitler via the loudspeaker system of a train running from Bregenz to Vienna.
The two suspects, who were not identified, also allegedly blasted “Heil Hitler” via the train’s intercom several times on Sunday. The authorities tracked them down by analysing video from the train cameras. Spreading Nazi propaganda is a criminal offence in Austria.
Passengers took notice of unusually loud messages being played over the high-speed Railjet train’s intercom shortly before its stop at St Pölten. Instead of announcing the next stop, the system initially played a series of bloopers by the actor usually voicing the train’s announcements, as well as a fire alarm message.
- SS at it again.palimpsest
- Make Hitler Great Again, Again!utopian
- utopian5
- The Nobel prize winner?_niko
- This. Fucking. Guy.ideaist
- First person on the Moon?crazyprick
- First person in/on Uranus.ideaist
- Ramanisky20
- That guy is either genuinely lovely, kind hearted and sincere... or, well... a bit into kinky things.shapesalad
- its like a 3sum .. or a 2.5sumautoflavour
- Does that mean the other twin is still single?jmckinno
- Ramanisky29
- her absent dad would be proud_niko
- ^OBBTKN
- nastyYakuZoku
- Typical NY Post. And people still buy it.CyBrainX
- I can smell this picutopian
- I can taste it.palimpsest
- honk!rzu-rzu
- 80% absence of shorts...neverscared
- her dad is proud, she is environmentally friendly and shops w her own tote baghotroddy
- i blame men for all problems everdoesnotexist
- Attention whorecrazyprick
- Down with shorts! Up with skirts!scarabin
- Continuity3
Meanwhile, in our very own SimonFFM's home town:
'Nude landlord no excuse for holding back rent, rules German court
Frankfurt judges said people would have to lean far out of window to see naked sunbathing in courtyard'
- LandlordFFMutopian
- FFM = Female Female Maleshapesalad
- Don't ask me how I know this.shapesalad
- You know it the same way everyone else knows it, I suspect.Continuity
- BBW is such a fucking oxymoroncrazyprick
- Coincidently, where is Simondrgs