lupin
Meteorite
boom boom
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Post by lupin on Jul 16, 2010 0:33:44 GMT -5
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kovac
Moon
I am the Alpha and the Omega.
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Post by kovac on Jul 16, 2010 0:43:43 GMT -5
mmmmmmm animals
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Cortney
Star
[AWD:0c15]The Objectioner
The Bown
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Post by Cortney on Jul 16, 2010 0:46:39 GMT -5
You're my new favorite poster. Buuuut I had to vote for the first one, despite my love of bestiality.
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lupin
Meteorite
boom boom
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Post by lupin on Jul 16, 2010 0:54:53 GMT -5
You're my new favorite poster. Buuuut I had to vote for the first one, despite my love of bestiality. thats gona be my new signature look
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Post by jmejia1187 on Jul 16, 2010 1:13:48 GMT -5
As you know, this year, the first synthesized cell was made. We have created artificial life! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyAOepIU6uoWe created the DNA from scratch, it can replicate itself, and we can add or subtract anything we want from it. It is conceivable now to create a bacteria that has all the genes of tuberculosis, swine flu, avian flu, and just about any other disease you can think of. It can be done because the genomes of these bacterium have been mapped. You can actually look up gene codes online: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/guide/So it is now EASY to create a synthetic life that can kill us. Will we? Probably not, unless biological warfare becomes a habit again. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_warfareIt is not likely, but here is a quote from the wiki page: "In 1972, the U.S. signed the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention, which banned the "development, production and stockpiling of microbes or their poisonous products except in amounts necessary for protective and peaceful research." By 1996, 137 countries had signed the treaty; however it is believed that since the signing of the Convention the number of countries capable of producing such weapons has increased.... After the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Iraq admitted to the United Nations inspection team to having produced 19,000 L of concentrated botulinum toxin, of which approximately 10,000 L were loaded into military weapons; the 19,000 L have never been fully accounted for. This is approximately 3 times the amount needed to kill the entire current human population by inhalation,[30] although in practice it would be impossible to distribute it so efficiently, and, unless it is protected from oxygen, it deteriorates in storage." So the short answer, yes. It is possible for a synthetic life to kill us. I think a better question is, Is it PROBABLE that we would be killed by synthetic life. I say, it is probably more probable that we would die as a result of our own lifestyles (too much food, too much smoking, too much drugs, driving drunk), than by synthetic life. We have bigger things to worry about. Like the ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!
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lupin
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boom boom
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Post by lupin on Jul 16, 2010 16:47:10 GMT -5
self replicating bacteria that transforms oxigen into nitrogen for cars, also (upsidentally) acts as a herbicide...
just spray some of that anywhere
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