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====To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life – the most pretentious bacterium ever==== | |||
''I'd create an animal that excretes meat, just to give vegetarians pause for thought. Ethically, what's the problem with eating a sausage, if it's been harmlessly pooed out by an animal? To sweeten the pill yet further, what if you put pleasure receptors in the animal's colon, so it actively enjoys the sausage-creation process – enjoys it to such a degree that it chases you down the street, yelping in orgasmic delight and producing a string of pan-ready chipolatas? If you think that's disgusting, I'd just like to point out that it's far less revolting than killing a pig with a bolt gun then mashing it up into sausagemeat.'' [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/24/charlie-brooker-artificial-life-here Charlie Brooker: So, artificial life is here, courtesy of Craig Venter. Time to remix humankind…] | |||
--[[User:Bernd|Bernd]] 11:43, 24 May 2010 (UTC) | |||
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====Some more links on synthetic life==== | ====Some more links on synthetic life==== | ||
[http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18942-immaculate-creation-birth-of-the-first-synthetic-cell.html Newscienist: Immaculate creation: birth of the first synthetic cell] | [http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18942-immaculate-creation-birth-of-the-first-synthetic-cell.html Newscienist: Immaculate creation: birth of the first synthetic cell] | ||