Thursday 12 June 2008

Scientists Close to Reconstructing First Living Cell: Scientific American

There’s quite a few things that scare me on this planet, but one thing I find most scary is the ability to create life from scratch, and they’re bloody close. Right now they’ve shown that some random chemicals in the form of fatty acids, some random chemicals the form of basic DNA and some random chemicals in the form of nucleotides are enough to build a cell that can feed and duplicate DNA in a test tube. The next step is cell division and once you’ve got that, add a little mutation and you’ve got evolution. Couple this with new universes bubbling off from existing ones and it doesn’t matter if the continuously expanding universe results in the Big Freeze. You also solve the problem that current evidence shows that time began with the beginning of the universe, which “something” must have started. So there you go, we might be the retarded offspring of 5 monkeys having butt-sex with a fish-squirrel after all!

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