Genetic Modification Gone Wild: 10 Signs That Our World May Be Destined To Resemble A Real

[Tinnuhana]

Ready for Jurassic Park 4?
On this line, you might like to check out the precursor to the JP series: the pilot episode of Jonny Quest from the mid-60s. Crichton must have watched it as a child or something.
Personally, I don't have a problem with growing organs in a non-living substrate. For example, dermis, which is a unversal donor thing like plasma, can be grown in labs and used on burn vicitms. Since it's flexible, people don't need series of painful operations during recovery from burns. This same company working on dermis was working on growing cartilage. They'd take a sample of cartilage form someone needing some (like intervertebral disks) and grow it in a mold to fit perfectly and then replace the bad cartilage with the new. The body won't reject itself, so there would be a high success rate.
I'd draw the line at using animals or animal products (or human, other than traditional like blood transfusioins, where everything is natural and no harm is done to the donor).

 

[Anti Federalist]

Just because you can, does not mean you should.

People tend to be scared of stuff they don't understand. To most people, 'spiders are spiders and goats are goat and you DON'T MESS WITH THAT', but really.. if it can somehow improve society, who cares?

Stuff can go wrong, don't get me wrong. But really.. scared of cows growing human organs.. really? Just wait until you're on the bottom of the transplant list, doesn't look that bad now, does it? And spiderwebbing is incredibly strong and flexible, humans can't even come close to copying it. The possibilities with that stuff are endless.

Also, notice how some things are mentioned without any clarification on why they were spliced that way? Kinda like how people criticize Ron Paul for 'wanting to end the department of education' and assume that he's anti-education.

"We are permanently changing the natural order of things."

We did that the moment we set foot on this planet. Hell, nature has been changing since before we were even around. Really, most of the stuff they say merely mentions that things will be 'different'. Well boo-his, times change. Get used to it.

 

[Krugerrand]

Not to turn this into a "male-female" flame war, but...

Men have been pretty much "separated" from the birth process for decades now, in that science has pretty much rendered us obsolete, if push came down to shove.

It only stands to reason that women would be next.

Until we're all "manufactured".

This is one of my main arguments against abortion. As we take parents out of the reproduction process ... who's children are these ... and at point will they be deemed their 'own' self It's only a matter of time before a woman's womb is not necessary to birth a child. Then when is it okay to kill the child? Is a later death okay if its organs and nerves and cells are harvested for somebody on the 'bottom of the transplant list.'

 

[Anti Federalist]

This is one of my main arguments against abortion. As we take parents out of the reproduction process ... who's children are these ... and at point will they be deemed their 'own' self It's only a matter of time before a woman's womb is not necessary to birth a child. Then when is it okay to kill the child? Is a later death okay if its organs and nerves and cells are harvested for somebody on the 'bottom of the transplant list.'

A valid argument, I think.

And make no mistake, those organs will go to the elite first, before they get to any of us Mundanes.

 

[LawnWake]

Just because you can, does not mean you should.

And just because you're afraid of it, doesn't mean you shouldn't.

A valid argument, I think.

And make no mistake, those organs will go to the elite first, before they get to any of us Mundanes.

Yeah, that's called capitalism. New products tend to be expensive at first and will drop in price as the production becomes cheaper and more efficient.

 

[Diurdi]

A valid argument, I think.

And make no mistake, those organs will go to the elite first, before they get to any of us Mundanes.

The first computers went to "the elite first" too. If you have money or take a loan, I'm sure you can buy one too.

Doing genetic manipulation with human embryos is a bit scetchy, but doing it with animals is perfectly fine imo.

 

[John F Kennedy III]

And just because you're afraid of it, doesn't mean you shouldn't.



Yeah, that's called capitalism. New products tend to be expensive at first and will drop in price as the production becomes cheaper and more efficient.

Lol wut?

 

[SpicyTurkey]

You guys are reading to much into this. I think it's perfectly fine. Who could have imagined the world we will live in 300 years ago, or even 100 years ago?

 

[TomtheTinker]

I dont even like reading about this stuff..people playing god.

 

[zade]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIvNopv9Pa8&feature=player_embedded

 

[zade]

#3 Scientists in Japan have created a genetically modified mouse that tweets like a bird.

dear god no

 

[Pauls' Revere]

dear god no

Yes.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-12/japanese-mutant-mouse-tweets-bird

listen, turn up the volume.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLu37VvCozw

 

[Occam's Banana]

Just because you can, does not mean you should.

But it does mean that someone probably will (however unfortunate that may be).

 

[Anti Federalist]

And just because you're afraid of it, doesn't mean you shouldn't.

Private property rights are the cornerstone of free market economics.

Who do I sue when a viral plague wipes out 99 percent of humanity?

Damn right I'm afraid of that.

 

[LawnWake]

You guys are reading to much into this. I think it's perfectly fine. Who could have imagined the world we will live in 300 years ago, or even 100 years ago?

Pretty much. We grow up with the notion that the world is 'supposed to be' the way it was when we grew up and with any major change we get "scared". Just the basic fear of what we don't understand, not understanding that there is no way the world is 'supposed' to be like. We're products of our environment. Much like how our children will be products of an environment where goats produce spiderweb proteins. To them it will be normal.

Private property rights are the cornerstone of free market economics.

Who do I sue when a viral plague wipes out 99 percent of humanity?

Damn right I'm afraid of that.

To put things in perspective; humans are scared of scientists creating a disease in a lab that could whipe out millions of people, completely forgetting that non-manmade viruses and bacteria kill thousands yearly as it is (and let's not forget about the plague or the Spanish flew -- which killed millions of people in a single pandemic) and what actually saved us from many things people died from as recently as 100 years ago is scientific progress.

 

[Ashhhhh]

There is nothing wrong with this. People that oppose slow the progress of mankind

 

[Krugerrand]

We could be facing a situation where we are altering species faster than evolution can account for the changes. That could be dangerous.

 

[LawnWake]

We could be facing a situation where we are altering species faster than evolution can account for the changes. That could be dangerous.

We've been doing that for thousands of years already by domesticating animals. Artificial selection is much faster than natural selection.

 

[Krugerrand]

We've been doing that for thousands of years already by domesticating animals. Artificial selection is much faster than natural selection.

We've been using a much slower process for thousands of years.

 

[LawnWake]

We've been using a much slower process for thousands of years.

And we can do it much faster now than we did thousand of years ago. Ever seen the modern, huge, supercows? They're insane. We've developed them over decades, maybe less.

It's not the end of the world. If an animal were to get free and breed with related species.. that could be a problem. Or it could fix a problem (nature is unpredictable like that, evolution works a lot like Austrian economics). But you know, you fix this by not letting the animal escape.

Also, we've made a lot of mistakes in the past, like with the killerbees, but people do learn from them.

As I said, the common populace aren't the only ones with common sense, whereas scientists are all balding skinny Germans with a thick accent splicing gorillas with butterflies because they get some sick perverted pleasure out of it. Scientists can only do things there's funding for. Funding is only there if there's a commercial application for it. The market has taken care of this already.

It's kinda weird how people think the market can take care of itself, but don't think those same market dynamics have any influence on science.