[ExI] Holy Schlamoley! Venter's team creates synthetic life!

[Zero Powers]

Thanks for the warm reception folks.  I really do miss being able to
participate more often.  But it's nice to know that I'm remembered.  Maybe
I'll start a thread about transparent society, that ought to get me all
fired up again :P

Zero

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:18 PM, John Grigg <possiblepaths2050 at gmail.com>wrote:

> John K Clark wrote:
> And welcome back Zero Powers!
> >>
>
> And I will repeat the salutation!  But I was hoping you would return
> to us only after you had actually developed yourself to the point
> where you could change your moniker to "Infinite Powers!"
>
> John  : )
>
> On 5/21/10, John Clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > It's significant because for the first time humans have complete control
> > over every single nucleotide of an organism's DNA. I don't count viruses
> as
> > organisms.
> >
> > And welcome back Zero Powers!
> >
> >    John K Clark
> > ===============
> >
> >
> > On May 20, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:
> >
> >> On 5/20/2010 5:34 PM, Zero Powers wrote:
> >>
> >>> Last night, in a dramatic
> >>> announcement that led some to accuse him of playing God,
> >>
> >> Actually he *was* only playing god, because his team just copied an
> >> existing genome (other than a few tweaks and unintentional mutations).
> >> Weakly godlike at best (as Charlie Stross might put it).
> >
> >
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