Things that make you go "Hmmmm".

[kallend 2,230]

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[rushmc 23]

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The good and bad debates could be epic

The first thing I thought of was a cell trained to kill cancer only. If this had happened a couple of years ago my dad might still be here

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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The first thing I thought of was a cell trained to kill cancer only.

I believe this is possible. The problem is people think of cancer as being one thing, when unfortunately, it's a mutation and many different things. Up until now that has worked against us, but a genetically programed organism could fight a specific cancer (so specific it only occurs in a single person) and then when there is no more cancer of that type to kill, the programmed organism would die.

There is amazing potential for good and bad here because the exact same type of thing could be used for some very evil purposes.

It's the stuff of science fiction, that is bound to eventually become science fact.

We should proceed cautiously.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[rushmc 23]

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The first thing I thought of was a cell trained to kill cancer only.

I believe this is possible. The problem is people think of cancer as being one thing, when unfortunately, it's a mutation and many different things. Up until now that has worked against us, but a genetically programed organism could fight a specific cancer (so specific it only occurs in a single person) and then when there is no more cancer of that type to kill, the programmed organism would die.

There is amazing potential for good and bad here because the exact same type of thing could be used for some very evil purposes.

It's the stuff of science fiction, that is bound to eventually become science fact.

We should proceed cautiously.

Yes.

The potenial for good and bad is mind boggeling to think about

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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The first thing I thought of was a cell trained to kill cancer only.

I believe this is possible. The problem is people think of cancer as being one thing, when unfortunately, it's a mutation and many different things. Up until now that has worked against us, but a genetically programed organism could fight a specific cancer (so specific it only occurs in a single person) and then when there is no more cancer of that type to kill, the programmed organism would die.

There is amazing potential for good and bad here because the exact same type of thing could be used for some very evil purposes.

It's the stuff of science fiction, that is bound to eventually become science fact.

We should proceed cautiously.

Maybe they can use stem cells and see if they can create evolution too.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

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The uses for evil are fairly obvious... and frightening.

However, the thing that gives me some hope in this particular case is that anything which can be created for evil can also have something created to counter-act it.

So in the future I predict we'll have our daily bio innoculation akin to the daily daily computer virus profile updates. Oh joy.

[champu 1]

I want a LifeJet (tm) printer. Code up a set of DNA sequences and hit cmd+p, out pops an arbitrary arrangement of living cells.

"Does that new mouse we printed look a little off to you?"

"Yeah, I think the Adenine/Thymine cartridge might be running low."

[billvon 3,173]

>but a genetically programed organism could fight a specific cancer

The problem is that cancer is 100% your tissue - just with its oncogenes damaged or disabled. That's why your body can't fight it well; on the surface it looks like all your other cells.