[extropy-chat] Funding situation for stem cell research in the EU

[spike]

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> Damien Broderick:
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> >You can have any omelette you like as long as you don't break any
> >eggs making it?
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Such a thing is possible, but may require advanced nanotechnology and a
sufficiently loose definition of the term "break".  Nanobots would enter the
egg thru a tiny hole, remove some of the contents to make room, carry in the
ingredients such a mushrooms, cheese and spinach after these have been
disassembled at the atomic scale, reassemble them inside the egg, cook the
whole mess inside the shell.  Of course then you only *have* the omlette,
whereas actually devouring the thing would still require breaking the egg.
Unless of course one swallowed it whole.

Alternately, one could synthesize the egg, sans shell, outside the actual
chicken, thus obviating the breaking of the egg.  This might put and end to
endless speculation of which came first as well.

spike