A new twist on life...
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- Kidswift
One of the most interesting & potentially scary things I have read in a while, when you think of the possible implications this proffers. Essentially scientists have devised the first example of an artificial chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution....
- harlequino0
Sweet, pet Smurfs for everyone!
- Kidswift0
Yeah seems like a whole bunch of fun when your rocking your own smurf village but would you want those fuckers to evolve? Could you imagine turning up to work one day and finding brainy smurf has just got the promotion and taken over your job to then get home and find out your girlfriend has run off with dreamy smurf... a smurf is not just for christmas!
- brains0
THEY'LL TAKE OUR JOOOOOBS
- we'll take their money. they're tiny! like little slaveslambsy
- they took OOUr JOBBBBBBaBenja82
- That didn't work. everyone back to the pile.Knuckleberry
- Kidswift0
bump because this is interesting stuff!
- ukit0
This is pretty sweet. I feel like many of these big scientific discoveries are happening, largely unnoticed.
- neverblink0
Am I the only one to think they would mention gamma-rays when they quoted Dr. Benner?
- Kidswift0
Dr Benner??? Do you mean because it sounds a little like Eric Bana who played the hulk in which gamma rays feature... because that seems like a bit of stretch.... but I like your thinking and this technology would enable us to grow our own mini-hulks
- dr. banner = hulkneverblink
- ha ha yeah that would be a simpler explanationKidswift
- Kidswift0
bumpin it for the science geeks and mad professors... I am sure Nairn has a comment on this
- baseline_shift0
this is fascinating, but kinda scary.
One of the principles of life on earth is its ability to break out of boundaries, mutate, and find a way to live and procreate. That being said, its very big headed (read:human) of us to think we can control these kinds of processes.
Think about what happens in instances when animals are introduced to ecosystems by people. Rabbits created a real problem for the aussies. And rabbits are a relatively harmless, naturally existing creature.
It scares me to think about the havoc an artificially produced microbe could wreak if it gets out of the lab and starts doing whatever it was made to do in a lab, but on a large, uncontrollable scale.
- flashbender0
This is the beginning of an awesome Jerry Bruckheimer film
