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<br>
<br>Zero<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:18 PM, John Grigg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:possiblepaths2050@gmail.com">possiblepaths2050@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">John K Clark wrote:<br>
And welcome back Zero Powers!<br>
>><br>
<br>
</div>And I will repeat the salutation! But I was hoping you would return<br>
to us only after you had actually developed yourself to the point<br>
where you could change your moniker to "Infinite Powers!"<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
John : )<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
On 5/21/10, John Clark <<a href="mailto:jonkc@bellsouth.net">jonkc@bellsouth.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> It's significant because for the first time humans have complete control<br>
> over every single nucleotide of an organism's DNA. I don't count viruses as<br>
> organisms.<br>
><br>
> And welcome back Zero Powers!<br>
><br>
> John K Clark<br>
> ===============<br>
><br>
><br>
> On May 20, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:<br>
><br>
>> On 5/20/2010 5:34 PM, Zero Powers wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Last night, in a dramatic<br>
>>> announcement that led some to accuse him of playing God,<br>
>><br>
>> Actually he *was* only playing god, because his team just copied an<br>
>> existing genome (other than a few tweaks and unintentional mutations).<br>
>> Weakly godlike at best (as Charlie Stross might put it).<br>
><br>
><br>
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