"These could be used in the future to make the most powerful bioweapons imaginable. The challenge is to eat the fruit without the worm."
why the hell would you want to do that? don't we allready have too many ways to kill other things without adding powerful bioweapons to the list?
is that what scientific discovery is all about now. giving the military 'superpowers' more ways to kill 'the bad guys'?
what a truly stupid and war-hungry world we live in, im surprised the planet isn't redder than mars by now.
It reads to me like he considers the worm to be bioweapons and and the fruit to be things that benefit mankind (in a peaceful way). So he wants us to get the fruit, not the worm.
Though Wibble is right - military research is responsible for a massive number of things we all benefit from today.
*MySmiley*
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Scientists have created life! God reported to be "miffed"
- 20/05/2010 09:01:10 PM
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wait... what?
- 20/05/2010 09:40:44 PM
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Ummm, military technology has always been at the leading edge of research.
- 20/05/2010 09:57:20 PM
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I think that is what he said
- 20/05/2010 10:00:24 PM
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I would like to also remind that the military does not only research weapons.
- 20/05/2010 10:42:36 PM
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Copying one organisms DNA and putting it into another organisms cells is creating life? 
- 21/05/2010 02:43:53 PM
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- 21/05/2010 02:43:53 PM
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mmm, I would like to point out they did not merely COPY a creature's dna and put it elsewere
- 21/05/2010 04:23:52 PM
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But they synthesized existing DNA, right? Or am I missing something?
- 21/05/2010 04:39:23 PM
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Re: But they synthesized existing DNA, right? Or am I missing something?
- 21/05/2010 05:28:15 PM
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Huh, where'd you see that?
- 21/05/2010 05:36:39 PM
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In the original article where it was published, funnily enough
- 22/05/2010 03:18:36 PM
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- 22/05/2010 03:18:36 PM
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Didn't realize you could read their articles for free at their site.
- 22/05/2010 03:26:52 PM
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I do believe...
- 21/05/2010 03:11:58 PM
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