Oh fuck it's the future

[Hanuman]

Ok science guy, thank you for telling us exactly how all life will be extinguished by 2012, mixing computers with bioviruses with corps with south korea.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

As long as they don't get carried way with making life forms. We should be fine.

[Wigmund]

Originally Posted by Kyanbu The Legend

As long as they don't get carried way with making life forms. We should be fine.

They probably will and then we'll have situations like this.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

You know what, no lie, that thing was actually more cute then scary. XD

[Ecks]

Negarep me all you want.

I'll give 'em 20 years to make the first Pokemon.

[Aldurin]

I call Torchic. And dibbs on each of the legendaries.

And make a Master Ball so I can kidnap people by throwing it at them.

[Magus]

Why is making DNA hard artificially, don't you just chemically bond ATGC in the right order? I'm not saying that the order isn't hard to get right but if you know the right order then it seems like it'd be pretty easy to create "artificial" DNA, which is really just a fancy way of saying that you yourself put the already-existing chemicals together ahead of time. It would be the correct order that is the amazing creation, not the actual stuff. I applaud them for coming up with an order that doesn't create mutant bacteria capable of turning your brains to jelly. Obviously, they will accidentally do this soon, but until then, I applaud.

However, they were just playing around with stuff that already exists. They just observed how DNA works and made their own using already existing chemicals. Big whoop. That's why I think robots are much more interesting, because the "life" or "thought" part if they could get it down would be entirely an artificial human creation because nothing like that already exists naturally. There aren't any naturally occurring sentient robots (that we know of, luckily, as I'm sure they would destroy us all or star in really bad Michael Bay movies--oh wait).

As for the present already being grim and depressing, obviously the future will be grimmer and depressinger.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Magus

Why is making DNA hard artificially, don't you just chemically bond ATGC in the right order? I'm not saying that the order isn't hard to get right but if you know the right order then it seems like it'd be pretty easy to create "artificial" DNA, which is really just a fancy way of saying that you yourself put the already-existing chemicals together ahead of time. It would be the correct order that is the amazing creation, not the actual stuff. I applaud them for coming up with an order that doesn't create mutant bacteria capable of turning your brains to jelly. Obviously, they will accidentally do this soon, but until then, I applaud.

However, they were just playing around with stuff that already exists. They just observed how DNA works and made their own using already existing chemicals. Big whoop. That's why I think robots are much more interesting, because the "life" or "thought" part if they could get it down would be entirely an artificial human creation because nothing like that already exists naturally. There aren't any naturally occurring sentient robots (that we know of, luckily, as I'm sure they would destroy us all or star in really bad Michael Bay movies--oh wait).

As for the present already being grim and depressing, obviously the future will be grimmer and depressinger.

Well, you also have to get the conditions right to put it all together. It's not like you can just throw a bunch of nucleic acids in a box and shake it up or poke them together with a tweezers.

Just being fair, I'm sure it's an incredibly sensitive and delicate process if it took them ten years to accomplish.

[Azisien]

Originally Posted by Magus

Why is making DNA hard artificially, don't you just chemically bond ATGC in the right order?

The bonds involved in DNA are jerks and it's not that easy. Not to mention all the error correction and QA you would have to do. Ugh, sounds like a nightmare. Obviously it can be done, but this experiment here took like what, 15 years? And $40 million. So it's hard.

[Osterbaum]

Don't worry. It wont be long till someone develops faster and cheaper and more reliable methods. I'm sure.