Scientists create life

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10132762.stm

The title says it all. Huge implications from this. I don't know where to start...

Wow! Exciting stuff!

But I think anyone who has ideas about releasing these into the biosphere should think twice.

Smart. The only thing worse than pollution is pollution that can reproduce.

This is how the zombie apocalypse begins, people.

I, for one, welcome our new Synthetic-Genetic Replicant Overlords!

A little misleading, don't you think?

They didn't build an organism from scratch, they had to start with a living cell and then injected designer DNA into it, if I read the article correctly.

That was almost my exact thought process when reading it.

A little, but I see it as step toward building an organism from scratch.

And when that happens, we're all fucked -- but it will be awesome.

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Any reaction from the Christian Right yet?

This is spectacular news!!! I am so ex...

Waitaminute... Isn't this how the Zombie Apocolypse starts?

Gunforge! Assemble! Time to create another ammo shortage, boys.

The potentials for good and bad here are vast....

I am really, really wary of mixing stuff like that with the environment though. Look how badly transplanting even natural things sometimes goes. We don't need some synthetic kudzu problem or artificial airborn cancer epidemics.

I guess "Miri" never really leaves the subconscious once you've seen it.

Be interesting to see what happens with this, the possibilities for both use and misuse are enormous.

And if something goes wrong... At least we have existing tech to limit their lifespans, and maybe ensure they can't breed, but you never know.

While I do encourage extreme caution for something like this, I don't think we should define outcomes in terms like "good" or "bad." I think the safe and efficacious advancing of human knowledge should be the goal here.

Of course if there is a Zombie outbreak, I'm prepared to open a can of whop-ass!!

"IT'S ALIIIIVE!"

Now that sounds more like Jurrasic Park than Zombie Apocolypse, but I'm with ya!

Zombie Jurassic Apocalypse?

I want superpowers, damnit. When will science deliver on it's promises for awesome superpowers?!

Shit! My mom was right, it is the end of days!

When science gives me my zombies, then you may have your superpowers.

ALphman ifi had the money i would spend money on a supermutant project.

We need a movie like I Am Legend, only with zombie velociraptors and a giant battle-axe wielding hero*, riding a sentient and sarcastic stegasaurus into the fray.

*The battle-axe will be giant, not the hero. The hero should a superstrong midget. With glowing eyes.

I think we'll watch The Andromeda Strain tonight.

Ramen is your man!

Miranda, people. But at least we will all die happy.

I hope.

The Mayans were right. December 2012.

I hate that I know this but...

Most of WordForge will become Reavers.

I look forward to the Eugenics Wars with great excitment. It will make great tv for fat Americans.

Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!

Actually that's just when the Mayan calander says that "Volpone shall finally get a bit of man arse". Nostradamus also predicted this when he said that "The Fox shall receive a great pork in the year of the great games"

Rupert Murdoch eats koher food.