Craig Ventner is a biological Strangelove,turned out the genetic arms race
was to sequence HIS own DNA.
Reminder of the artificial inseminating Dr who used his own sperm on over
30 patients.
Now crazy Craig want to create some kind of 'grey ooze,' a new form of
artificial life.
"...WASHINGTON Scientists are planning to create a new form of life in a
laboratory dish, a project that raises ethical and safety issues but also
promises to illuminate the fundamental mechanics of living organisms. .J.
Craig Venter, a gene scientist with a history of pulling off unlikely
successes, and Hamilton Smith, a molecular biologist and Nobel laureate,
are behind the project, funded by a $3 million grant from the U.S.
government. .Their intent is to create a single-celled, partly man-made
organism with the minimum number of genes necessary to sustain life. If the
experiment works, the microscopic cell will begin feeding and dividing to
create a population of cells unlike any previously known to exist."
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"...The project raises philosophical, ethical and practical questions. For
example, if a man-made organism proved able to survive and reproduce only
under a narrow range of laboratory conditions, could it really be
considered life? .More broadly, do scientists have any moral right to
create new organisms? .A panel of ethicists and religious leaders, convened
several years ago at Venter's request, has already wrestled with the latter
issue. .The group, which included a rabbi and a priest, concluded that if
the ultimate goal was to benefit mankind and if all appropriate safeguards
were followed, the project could be regarded as ethical.
("A Rabbi and a Priest approve,Jesus H Christ,I feel so fuckin' safe...")
Corporate pork and private enterprise meglomania combine in a plot for a
new James Bond movie.The singularity we're all expecting could be a toss up
between runaway greenhouse and runaway grey ooze,either way we participate
fully in the present ongoing mass extinctions...pass the Olanzapine,hon,I'm
gonna have an early night.
