Last edited by Harmor (2010-09-21 19:07:53)
It's just altered and enhanced evolution. It's not like they were fabricating genes out of thin air that they didn't know anything about.Harmor wrote:
Scientists: We can build whatever animal you want to eat! via http://www.drudgereport.com/
I think we need to make sure these new creatures we make don't have some kind of unknown illness that can be transmitted through their flesh.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features … enome-1785JohnG@lt wrote:
It's just altered and enhanced evolution. It's not like they were fabricating genes out of thin air that they didn't know anything about.Harmor wrote:
Scientists: We can build whatever animal you want to eat! via http://www.drudgereport.com/
I think we need to make sure these new creatures we make don't have some kind of unknown illness that can be transmitted through their flesh.
I read today that you can get injected with samples of your own brain tumor to immunize yourself against it. That's one step closer, I think.Macbeth wrote:
I'm still pissed I'm not biologically immortal.
JohnG@lt wrote:
It's just altered and enhanced evolution. It's not like they were fabricating genes out of thin air that they didn't know anything about.Harmor wrote:
Scientists: We can build whatever animal you want to eat! via http://www.drudgereport.com/
I think we need to make sure these new creatures we make don't have some kind of unknown illness that can be transmitted through their flesh.
Pretty much yeah. I'm betting that it's just an increased metabolism thing.JohnG@lt wrote:
Right, and it just grows faster. It reaches full size and stops after two years instead of four. Not a big deal.
Let's see...KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
i'm gonna pass on that one until it's a last option. Actually, i know a dude that went through brain cancer and i would do anything not to end up like that so i guess that's 1 notch below chemo on the option scale.
Even if you've cracked the genetic code of a creature, you can't predict all of the potential side-effects alteration may have.JohnG@lt wrote:
Right, and it just grows faster. It reaches full size and stops after two years instead of four. Not a big deal.
Source?Harmor wrote:
Look closely and you will see a worm in a man's eye:
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/4439 … yeball.jpg
The worm was killed with a laser. The man watched the worm dodge the laser several times before the doctor killed it.
http://thegazette.com/2010/09/20/laser- … -mans-eye/unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Source?Harmor wrote:
Look closely and you will see a worm in a man's eye:
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/4439 … yeball.jpg
The worm was killed with a laser. The man watched the worm dodge the laser several times before the doctor killed it.
So what did they tell him about not drinking the water? Guess he didn't listen.Harmor wrote:
http://thegazette.com/2010/09/20/laser- … -mans-eye/unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Source?Harmor wrote:
Look closely and you will see a worm in a man's eye:
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/4439 … yeball.jpg
The worm was killed with a laser. The man watched the worm dodge the laser several times before the doctor killed it.
and are those winds naturally present in the Red Sea area?cl4u53w1t2 wrote:
"Background
Wind setdown is the drop in water level caused by wind stress acting on the surface of a body of water for an extended period of time. As the wind blows, water recedes from the upwind shore and exposes terrain that was formerly underwater. Previous researchers have suggested wind setdown as a possible hydrodynamic explanation for Moses crossing the Red Sea, as described in Exodus 14.
Conclusions/Significance
Under a uniform 28 m/s easterly wind forcing in the reconstructed model basin, the ocean model produces an area of exposed mud flats where the river mouth opens into the lake. This land bridge is 3–4 km long and 5 km wide, and it remains open for 4 hours. Model results indicate that navigation in shallow-water harbors can be significantly curtailed by wind setdown when strong winds blow offshore."
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Ad … ne.0012481
Reminds me of the banks of capacitors I saw at Sandia National Labs in the early 90s. They used them to turn an aluminum slug into plasma with EM fields. Cool shit.SenorToenails wrote:
Unfortunately, I never got to take the tour that the LLE had when I was an undergrad there...but they do have a huge bank of them. Check it out!JohnG@lt wrote:
I'm just trying to wrap my head around how large the capacitors would have to be.
Yea, I read about this^ yesterday on the Bad Astronomy Blog.Spark wrote:
Potentially habitable planet found, 20ly away
Pretty significant that we've found a planet with such enticing characteristics given that what we're doing is akin to looking for bacteria with a magnifying glass - a good one, but a magnifying glass nonetheless.
