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

John Grigg possiblepaths2050 at gmail.com
Fri May 21 19:18:15 UTC 2010


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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