It was/is bound to happen.
I have a hard time believing that scientists are anywhere near
creating (accidently or purposefully) anything that will both survive
in the real world and destroy any animal population or significant
resource (water, oxygen, CO, etc).
My assumption is that nature (evolution & darwin) would be (and has
been) much more efficient at delivering deadly and dangerous microbes
than scientists will be for decades to come.
But I could be wrong. At least most of this research is happening far
from me so I should have a few days notice. ;-D
-Adam
On 1/24/08, Apptech <
apptech@...> wrote:
> My cousin Matthew forwarded me this reference.
> I was sure that it would just be more of the rubbish that pervades this
> topic but decided to have a quick look to confirm my suppositions.
>
> The not quite smiling face of Craig Venter that heads the article told me
> immediately that this is, after all, the real thing.
> We stand on the bridge at Khazad-dûm. The not distant enough drums sound
> their doom-doom call and it's not certain, yet, if Venter is himself the
> Balrog or if he is soon to conjure it from the abyss. As he's one of my
> select group of (anti?-)heroes I can't complain all too much.
>
> If you can't make head nor tail of that wait a few years and it will be the
> only news going :-).
>
>
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/synthetic_genome?currentPage=all>
>
>
>
> Russell
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