IT'S ALIVE

Blake T

How many times did he vomit on your vagina?

Vivixenne

it is very weird that you ask that about my ex, you realize

Vivixenne

dude ate hot pockets and pizza and burgers his whole life

eats a thing of rice with vegetables and he's all "I don't think I can do this I kinda wanna throw up"

does the same thing when my friends invite us to dinner and it's pork chops and veggies

and I'm all

are you fucking serious

then I stayed with him for 6 more months before I called it off

stupid Vivienne

Drew-B

Those are incredibly 'safe' foods to be grossed out by...

Vivixenne

YEAH

I KNOW

Gumpy

Going to light a fire with a snap of my fingers

jackal

I'm designing a custom strain of bacteria that I can put in a lake in Arizona. It will take in trash and spit out oil and metal. This is what I have so far:
GTAAC-GCTAA-ACGTG

Abracadaniel

Viscount Islands wrote: »

Macera wrote: »

I'm not that worried about the ethical implications of this. We've been breeding animals and plants into warped, unnatural forms for centuries.

Those kitties in glass jars.

hahahaha

:^:

jaziek

jackal wrote: »

I'm designing a custom strain of bacteria that I can put in a lake in Arizona. It will take in trash and spit out oil and metal. This is what I have so far:
GTAAC-GCTAA-ACGTG

why would you split them up into groups of 5?

jackal

jaziek wrote: »

jackal wrote: »

I'm designing a custom strain of bacteria that I can put in a lake in Arizona. It will take in trash and spit out oil and metal. This is what I have so far:
GTAAC-GCTAA-ACGTG

why would you split them up into groups of 5?

Man, I aint no fancy smancy genetic engineer. I'm doing this is my basement. I'll split up my base pairs however I want.

autono-wally, erotibot300

pasta with tuna is the food of poor gods

NotASenator

They have an interview on bbc.co.uk with Venter, and the woman leans forward to indicate that she's a hard-charging anchor asking the tough questions and asks "Let's get this out of the way right away - Are you playing God" and first off, Venter gives her a look that says "That is the stupidest possible question" and then rattles off a whole thing about ethical studies performed over a decade and how it's basically all already been decided that this is ok and etc etc without really dignifying her question with a real answer.

Houk

NotACrook wrote: »

They have an interview on bbc.co.uk with Venter, and the woman leans forward to indicate that she's a hard-charging anchor asking the tough questions and asks "Let's get this out of the way right away - Are you playing God" and first off, Venter gives her a look that says "That is the stupidest possible question" and then rattles off a whole thing about ethical studies performed over a decade and how it's basically all already been decided that this is ok and etc etc without really dignifying her question with a real answer.

While this is certainly the better way to handle it, the spiteful dick in me would love for him to have leaned forward, said "Yes", then crossed his arms and sat back with a :smugface:

NotASenator

Houk wrote: »

NotACrook wrote: »

They have an interview on bbc.co.uk with Venter, and the woman leans forward to indicate that she's a hard-charging anchor asking the tough questions and asks "Let's get this out of the way right away - Are you playing God" and first off, Venter gives her a look that says "That is the stupidest possible question" and then rattles off a whole thing about ethical studies performed over a decade and how it's basically all already been decided that this is ok and etc etc without really dignifying her question with a real answer.

While this is certainly the better way to handle it, the spiteful dick in me would love for him to have leaned forward, said "Yes", then crossed his arms and sat back with a :smugface:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqeC3BPYTmE

NotASenator

Life for humans will be so much nicer when ever single meaningful scientific advancement doesn't have to be framed in terms of mythology.

jackal

No one ever accuses me of playing god. Must be because all of my creations die or spontaneously combust... wait, that's exactly like playing god!

Druhim

Rolo wrote: »

Dubh wrote: »

is there any work of science fiction where playing God turns out to be pretty okay?

You're only 'playing god' when something goes horribly wrong.

The rest of the time you're curing cancer.

way late on this, but I saw NaS tweet this and I love you Rolo :^:

Druhim

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Rolo wrote: »

Dubh wrote: »

is there any work of science fiction where playing God turns out to be pretty okay?

You're only 'playing god' when something goes horribly wrong.

The rest of the time you're curing cancer.

I would call curing cancer playing God

you on the other hand..

Endomatic

Tam wrote: »

Spoiler:

what this thread needs

is optimistic vaguely ethnic vocals

thus, I demand you all listen to this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3js4WQKdqE

Just wanted to say I like this a lot, thanks for sharing.

Makes me want to play Civ IV really really badly.

Usagi

NotACrook wrote: »

Life for humans will be so much nicer when ever single meaningful scientific advancement doesn't have to be framed in terms of mythology.

:^:

Meissnerd

WWZR (What Would Zeus Research)

Druhim

AoR_Final wrote: »

Anjin-San wrote: »

yeah, we have the ability to extinguish all life a few times over into an unsustainable fucked to death pile of glassed dirt

if it was going to happen it would've already happened a whole shitton of times

If I could lime this any harder, I would.

except his first premise is false

jackal

Well saying "we have the ability to make the earth temporarily unable to sustain the current population of humans and other megafauna..." doesn't sound as good.

Darric

I'm not sure if this has been up a while, but TED just tweeted about Craig Venter's TED talk on this:

http://www.ted.com/talks/craig_venter_unveils_synthetic_life.html

Arch

Houk wrote: »

NotACrook wrote: »

They have an interview on bbc.co.uk with Venter, and the woman leans forward to indicate that she's a hard-charging anchor asking the tough questions and asks "Let's get this out of the way right away - Are you playing God" and first off, Venter gives her a look that says "That is the stupidest possible question" and then rattles off a whole thing about ethical studies performed over a decade and how it's basically all already been decided that this is ok and etc etc without really dignifying her question with a real answer.

While this is certainly the better way to handle it, the spiteful dick in me would love for him to have leaned forward, said "Yes", then crossed his arms and sat back with a :smugface:

if i ever get to the point where i am asked this question in an interview: I promise you that this will be my response

I am saying it right now, and you can hold me to it.

If, at any point in my scientific career, I am asked if I am "playing god" I will either A. Respond with a smug "yes" or B. Cackle maniacally

NotASenator

The answer is "No, I'm improving humanity with science."

Arch

no the answer is that yes i am playing god!

CorporateLogo

Vivixenne wrote: »

I honestly can't comprehend people who eat good food and it makes them "gag"

like, actually want to vomit

I'm just "it's not the flavour and it's not that it's from a part of the animal that you do not eat, it's that you are psyching yourself out by convincing yourself it's gross even before you've tried it"

and people like that piss me off

it is probably one of the main reasons I broke things off with my ex

I cannot eat steamed carrots, they make me gag, regular carrots are just fine for some reason

Actually I don't really like steamed vegetables at all, give me fresh ones instead

Also the smell of fried mushrooms is probably the only scent that has ever pushed me to the brink of throwing up

Skull Man

yes I can't wait for the day science runs completely unchecked by ethics

bongi

i don't think anyone suggested that

and if they did

they are a silly goose

Arch

Skull Man wrote: »

yes I can't wait for the day science runs completely unchecked by ethics

you and me both!

.......wait that was sarcasm on your part

...i too...was kidding....

bongi

i'm not actually even sure what that sentence could possibly mean

GameGrrl

god this shit freaks me out

like there are some lines that we weren't meant to cross, and this is definitely one of them

this kind of stuff really should be something that the people get to vote on whether this research continues, since we all have to deal with the consequences when something goes horribly wrong

bongi

yeah except that the people not doing the research are the people least educated about what could and couldn't go wrong

redhead

also "meant to," lol

bongi

what if one day someone finds ethical truths down the back of their sofa

and they are like 'damn that's where those got to'

autono-wally, erotibot300

at one point in time
people thought that fire crossed that line
fuck those people
these lines are arbitrarily set by members of a group of people either too stupid or too ignorant to see the necessity for progress.
Of course this doesn't mean any risks should be ignored.
But please.
People having to vote on this? Imagine how stupid the average person is, then remember that about a half is dumber. The tyranny of the ass-backwards minority can go suck it.

bongi

"it turns out that the so-called golden rule is actually closer to taupe"

autono-wally, erotibot300

bongi wrote: »

what if one day someone finds ethical truths down the back of their sofa

and they are like 'damn that's where those got to'

'oh a nickel!'

bongi

"unfortunately the ethical truth about it being uncool to fuck your relatives got a bit squashed and also has a bunch of fluff stuck to it"