God 2.0
 

Something to discuss during the weekend:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/20...etic-life-form

In a few words, humans can now synthesize life.

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Uh oh! This sounds similar to the start of the "I am legend" movie. Not exactly the same, but you watch, there will be vampire zombies running around in no time.

Sopwith, nice find. Definitely an interesting accomplishment for science.

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hummm...
did they created life, or did they implant synthetic DNA to an existing life?

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This is dumb, will the life have a soul?

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Don't worry. Science will learn to create souls too! :p

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news flash: There is no soul.

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are there souls??
I thought every human IS a soul.

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one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of our/all time.............
and its dumb???? jeeeez

why should it have a soul? does any life form?

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That's somehow good. In some years Nokia will grow programmers in the same way. My kids will never live a speculation thread like I do, but they won't have to wait months for an update :p

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Latter. Also worth pointing that the DNA in question was created out of scracth only in chemical/physical sense. The information content of the DNA is from sequenced natural DNA/genes. Long way to go until we are able to really create life. Here is the actual paper from Science (no subscrition / academic license required).

Also, why 2.0. Shouldn't there be a 1.0 version release before 2.0?