Last time I checked, it takes more than GATC to make DNA. I call bullshit.

This won't end well.

Or, more than likely they are leaving out the other steps to keep it proprietary, OR its already been classified by the gubermint. If they aren't funded by the military they probably will be soon.

Can you say made-to-order bio-weapons.

If they started with “living material”, then they did not create life. They must start with 100% non-living material to “create life”; all they've done is “significantly modified life as we know it”.. a feat, to be sure, but not the same thing as “creating life”.

I'm just trying to figure out how they coded their names and URL into a genome.

Quick! Someone alert the pro-lifers! Something new to protest: the killing of synthetic life!

Naw, I'm sure their position will be that only their daddy in the sky should be fooling around with the chemistry set, consistent with their anti-science, anti-intellectual, mojo-bag-fondling medieval superstitions.

I've already done that.

Look in my fridge. I've got a new form of synthetic life growing on the leftover pizza from a couple of weeks ago

Maybe some day they can replace conservatives with a real life form.

I thought Second Life created synthetic life a while back.

You can bet the Pentagon mad scientists have had their paws on this for some time now. Next comes the splice with real human cells (if they have not done it already) for military use, i.e. combat robots. This “news story” is nothing more than a desensitization for the public to soften them up for the day when this shit is turned loose. They have never had a weapons system they didn't use to some degree, some ending in spectacular failure (H5N1/H1N1). Looks like Mother Nature helped us out there but I can't see that happening again.

Also, what kind of illnesses and viruses can this new “life form” be packing around? There's your next REAL pandemic.

Robert S. Finnegan
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
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Jakarta, Indonesia

The Borg!

What a bunch of arrogant shitheads.
Please cut their funding – immediately.

Great news, now if the scientists could just outpace the morons with regards to breeding, humanity just might have some chance. I doubt it though, morons breed like rabbits and they use the technology created with science as a crutch to help them along their overbreeding way. Scientists think they're being smart by not breeding like rabbits, they're probably right but evolution doesn't care about who's right, just who's the most prolific.

Uh Oh! The ranger isn't gonna like this Yogi.

It's likely that the new life will be less robust than evolution life. Current life has withstood the test of time. Guessing our new god's have copied liberally, science is like that. I hope they can do many wonderful things. I also hope they can create other life to predate on the new life to keep natures checks and balances. Life will pose new challenges as you can't just patch/update existing work as with software.

As for the cons who fear their own shadows. Another thing to condemn. Hope the other techs, electricity, transportation, and communications is working out for you.

Yeah, but many of the real ones haven’t worked out too well either. Like Homo sapiens, for example.

“They had also imprinted the names of 46 scientists, who worked on the project, on the genome along with its own website address….” Hope these “vanity sequences” don't biologically “spell” out instructions for “disaster”.

Old news, we have already been altered by polluting corporations dumping PCB's. All our children new have 3 parents, a mother, father, and a corporation that has forever altered the DNA of mankind and every other living thing by their deliberate dumping of PCB's and dioxins better known as Agent Orange.

Gimme a break!….
First a real oil spill, now synthetic life?

Hey, if you can't comprehend it, talk about something totally unrelated, lol.

Shortly, they will be fighting wars for us or “inhaling” oil leaks or stealing from us.

dave wrote: “What a bunch of arrogant shitheads.
Please cut their funding – immediately.”

Why are they arrogant shitheads, and why would you want to cut their funding?

Fascinating. Now just keep it from the military and the CIA. But by the time they can use it for cyborgs, we will all be dead and not know anything about it.

Let's hope they have a panel of not just scientists but normal everyday human beings and ethicist's and geneticists to monitor. Keep religion out of it. They are still looking for a way to keep science at it's most primitive level.

And whatever benefits come from research into this and stem cell, let each of them sign a statement that they will not use such wicked science to save the lives of their loved ones or themselves. I would settle for that.

Heh heh. Too true.

Just add Charlton Heston and Doctor Zaius and we've got “Return to Planet of The Apes: We Are Totally Fucked Now”.

Nothing can possibly go wrong.

Nothing can possibly go wrong.

watch darpa to start with the solicitations…

ah the next 50 years are going to be kinda neat

Where's your God now, blind religious zealots?

Anybody else sick of seeing the ad that's been all over RawStory lately with a picture of that knucklehead Sarah Palin and a link to sign a petition to tell her to “start telling the truth”? Isn't that like me circulating a petition to ask my dog to stop licking his balls? Could we get that off there?- the sight of her actually makes me a little nauseous.

nah, that was a way for people with no life to have even less of a life.

why?

raw sewage has it's merits…

So if they make a human…..will he / she have a soul ????
I guess make the haploid cells first, then mix them up and implant them
into a volunteer. No mud pies or messy rib bones to mess with like in the old days
in Eden. But God was in a hurry, he only had one day to do it and was looking
forward to the weekend.

do the math. convert to ascii. four chemicals arranged into pairs.

ummm… self-replicating…

manufactured synthetic proteins have been around for a while.

they published this where? nature?

that's the beauty of peer-review. prove they can't, then publish. just remember, if you use bullshit to try to make them look like they didn't, and they really did, you not only discredit yourself forever, you discredit most other detractors at the same time.

this is why the global warming deniers don't like peer-review, they don't want to destroy their own careers forever by publishing someplace reputable.

no doubt darpa will be announcing the solicitations soon. they'd be fools not to.

and as far as the products of those solicitations… imagine war fought with tailored diseases… diseases meant for one person, or a family…

republicans would go for it, as maybe they can target entire races for extermination. a republican wet dream.

Because, unfortunately, we humans have a way of blundering into REALLY nasty unknown territory with such `innocent developments';. one biggie is GMO food-crops that shed poisonous pollens…FrankenFoods (like modified corn), killing harmless insects (like the Monarch Butterfly).

The term `unintended consequences' will be totally inadequate if they have created something which is able to integrate into- or alter the structures or functions of natural living organisms.

More than fiction, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a cautionary tale of hubris and downfall.

Just ask a Republican how they feel about the Tea-Bagger monsters they've created, only to realize they have no control over them.

They are privately funded.

The Evangelists will be dancing on the alter and swinging their rattlesnakes around in the air over this. Morons.

So does it have a soul? Can it register to vote like other Republicans? Does it have an accent like the cyborg guys? Can it ride a motorcycle?

I thought scientists did this months ago, did they do it again?

gee … just what we need another life form that can be eventually disregarded as meaningless as people that occupy land (oil, gold, silver, diamonds, etc) that is coveted by the 1%

will it need papers in AZ ?

This is a false claim. Washington D.C. has been full of synthetic life for quite a while now. They should match DNA to see if this is just a Wall Street derivative.

now if we can just train that life for to jump out of the frig and into the garbage i wouldn't have to figure out a way to get it out of my frig without touching it, you know you're in trouble when you can't even identify what the new life started out as ….

I thought Laura Bush was their Beta Test..

Just what we need: a world populated with “scientists”. Remember the discussion among the “scientists” at the end of “Dr. Strangelove”? We can bomb the entire word, and then live for years underground. Of course, every man will need multiple wives…

Yeah, if only scientists ruled the world…

Yeah, because Dr. Strangelove was a true story..?

Science has created the world you live in, without it you'd be in a cave cowering in the dark and risking your life for most of your meals. Instead, you're in a cozy construction using a computer to spew garbage to the entire planet with ample food in a portable arctic to eat at your leisure.

Technology is inert. How man uses it determines if it's bad or good. Satan has a very lucid point, and you trivialize it by conflating it with a “story”.

The christers always said: “Only god can create life”.
Now that they have been proved wrong once again.
Of course they're not done. They will be true to form and try to
legislate truth out of existence. Just watch.

Of course not both artificial living and thinking are the bedrock of AZ society.

This is the only way “terraforming” will ever work. Get them to build a microbe to tame the atmosphere of Venus! If we can dissipate the acidic clouds, the temperature will drop.

Hurry! Beware any pro-lifers! Something new: to protest the killing of artificial life!

Naw, I'm sure will be his position that only his father in the sky, chemistry sets, consistent with their anti-science, anti-intellectual, mojo bag – should have fun with fondling medieval superstitions.

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