Scientists Create Life.

http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/b...l?id=258402741 What's your view on this - a good thing or a bad thing ?

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Too frightening to contemplate for me.
This line from the article worried me :-

The work also gives some support to the concept that life can exist elsewhere in the universe using genetics different from those on Earth

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At the minute, it's nothing more than another attention grabbing headline. It may have exciting possibilities for future research and may indeed show that lifeforms with a different genetic makeup could exist elsewhere, but it's very early days.

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I think there's enough life forms on the planet as it is, what do we want to create more for?, we can't look after the one's we've got properly including our own species, when we fix that problem then maybe we can move on. Pandora's box comes to mind, leave well enough alone until we put our own house in order I say.

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I agree - but you know they'll keep opening that box .....

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Sooner or later someone will cook-up something they cannot control and toads or something will ending the dominant species on Earth an d we'll all be history. stevmk2

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I can see it too !
Just hope its not toads

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The Planet of the Apes looks less and less like scifi and more like scifact !

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I don't know why they bothered - any dole bludger and his sheila can do the same thing without $millions in research grants.

I mean, look at Dolly the sheep? there's a shortage of sheep?

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I mean, look at Dolly the sheep? there's a shortage of sheep?[/QUOTE]
What about chickens with six legs and pigs with three backsides for the food industry, we do genetic engineering with plants won't be long before they start on animals, my problem is I haven't tasted a decent tomato since they started messin around with the plant, God knows what the chickens legs and bacon will taste like.