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Post by faskew on May 8, 2014 12:33:17 GMT -5
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Post by raybar on May 9, 2014 14:09:24 GMT -5
Exciting research. A step forward in really learning how life works on the molecular level.
But should we be sending them some more sci-fi films?
Right. Until they don't.
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Post by Gifthorse on May 9, 2014 18:41:52 GMT -5
Exciting research. A step forward in really learning how life works on the molecular level. But should we be sending them some more sci-fi films? Right. Until they don't. Yeah I thought the same thing, raybar. They do need to be careful. I seem to recall Monsanto claiming their hybrid plants would never escape into the environment and wreck havoc.  |
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Post by faskew on May 10, 2014 9:05:15 GMT -5
Michael Crichton was an anti-science guy. He always inserted scientists doing stupid things in all of his SF. In Jurassic Park he has scientists use frog DNA to mix with the dino partial DNA, instead of closer relatives like birds or even reptiles, because frogs can potentially reproduce without both males and females and he needed that bug in the system to make the story. He also had them build a zoo in a tropical hurricane area where the most dangerous animals were held in only by electric fences which could easily stop working, instead of putting large walls around them. And he had a super-complex computer system that only one of the two programmers at the site could understand. 8->
In this bit from the movie, the rant delivered is that nothing is predictable. This given while riding in a helicopter, with the assumption that the aircraft will not crash. LOL. Yeah, minor variables can make complex systems difficult to predict, but modern society only functions because most things work like they're supposed to most of the time. And most systems can be adjusted if errors start showing up.
Can 6-letter cells ever escape into the wild? Probably. Will they be any more dangerous than all the deadly bacteria and viruses already out there? Probably not.
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Post by Roger (over and out) on May 10, 2014 9:14:19 GMT -5
In other news, terrorists are believed to be developing a new 'Alphabet Bomb'. If it goes off, it could spell disaster.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2014 19:15:03 GMT -5
In other news, terrorists are believed to be developing a new 'Alphabet Bomb'. If it goes off, it could spell disaster. You mean like back to The Tower of Babel? |
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Post by Gifthorse on May 11, 2014 2:04:02 GMT -5
Michael Crichton was an anti-science guy. He always inserted scientists doing stupid things in all of his SF. In Jurassic Park he has scientists use frog DNA to mix with the dino partial DNA, instead of closer relatives like birds or even reptiles, because frogs can potentially reproduce without both males and females and he needed that bug in the system to make the story. He also had them build a zoo in a tropical hurricane area where the most dangerous animals were held in only by electric fences which could easily stop working, instead of putting large walls around them. And he had a super-complex computer system that only one of the two programmers at the site could understand. 8-> In this bit from the movie, the rant delivered is that nothing is predictable. This given while riding in a helicopter, with the assumption that the aircraft will not crash. LOL. Yeah, minor variables can make complex systems difficult to predict, but modern society only functions because most things work like they're supposed to most of the time. And most systems can be adjusted if errors start showing up. Can 6-letter cells ever escape into the wild? Probably. Will they be any more dangerous than all the deadly bacteria and viruses already out there? Probably not. Yeah, but....Jeff Goldblum!   |
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