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Scientists make "artificial life" breakthrough.

SkylerOcon

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Hopefully this is used beneficially. This could be used for great good, but people are pretty creative when it comes to ****ing stuff up.
 

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Yet again we spit in nature's face so we can just delay the inevitable. Why can't scientists comprehend that living forever is not going to be an enjoyable decision? Imagine, you got in a car accident and get crushed by your own Minivan. There you are, being crushed by a large vehicle with no way of being able to escape. You are in intolerable amount of pain wishing anything to stop it, but you can't due to immortality being a reality. Life sucks but at least you get an ending.
 

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Yet again we spit in nature's face so we can just delay the inevitable. Why can't scientists comprehend that living forever is not going to be an enjoyable decision? Imagine, you got in a car accident and get crushed by your own Minivan. There you are, being crushed by a large vehicle with no way of being able to escape. You are in intolerable amount of pain wishing anything to stop it, but you can't due to immortality being a reality. Life sucks but at least you get an ending.
Can you direct me to where it said this could be used for immortality?
 

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this is incredible!

Also, you could be immortal through replacing your dieing cells with new ones? I'm guessing? haha
 

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Yet again we spit in nature's face so we can just delay the inevitable. Why can't scientists comprehend that living forever is not going to be an enjoyable decision? Imagine, you got in a car accident and get crushed by your own Minivan. There you are, being crushed by a large vehicle with no way of being able to escape. You are in intolerable amount of pain wishing anything to stop it, but you can't due to immortality being a reality. Life sucks but at least you get an ending.
Life's not a ***** life's a beautiful woman you just call her a ***** because she won't let you get that *****. You're just an asswhole who couldn't sweet talk a princess.

Seriously existing is wonderful. Despite my many, many hardships and loss I love every ounce of life, including the fact that I am mortal. "Life is a mircale of moments flabbergasted to be in each others presence. Life is an exam, to see if we could rise above it."

In summary, Life, **** yeah.

At any rate, this is amazing, and I'm interested in seeing how this could help medical fields, and all humanity fields in general. I ponder what the benefits of bio machines would be.
 

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Yet again we spit in nature's face so we can just delay the inevitable. Why can't scientists comprehend that living forever is not going to be an enjoyable decision? Imagine, you got in a car accident and get crushed by your own Minivan. There you are, being crushed by a large vehicle with no way of being able to escape. You are in intolerable amount of pain wishing anything to stop it, but you can't due to immortality being a reality. Life sucks but at least you get an ending.
Can you direct me to where it said this could be used for immortality?
I think he was responding to this:

With this news we are one step closer to living forever.:laugh
The article itself doesn't mention anything like that.

This is a breakthrough, certainly, though more technological than scientific. I am honestly amazed. That said, the critics do have a point. Ecological systems are complex and most likely impossible to predict. You wouldn't want to unleash some tiny man-made microbe into nature because it could be the undoing of everything. However, the technology itself could still have useful applications.
 

Mr.Freeman

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The hell does any of this mean we can live forever? It just means we could (possibly, but definitely not anytime soon) create a living organism.

A bio-weapon idea sounds interesting though.
 

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I put a :laugh: after "With this news we are one step closer to living forever" for a reason.

I wasn't at all serious.
 

Mewter

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This news wasn't that well received in the DR for some reason, but I myself think it's neat.

Bacteria that fight disease?
 

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Wow. Who knows what scientists are working on while we are having our normal, everyday lives?
 

UberMario

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Well it's not quite "manmade" because they still needed to use an organic cell to insert the dna in.
 
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