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4208706

Anonymous Mon Jan 2 10:27:56 2012 No.4208706 [Reply] [Original]

How close have we got to making artificial life?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 10:28:00 2012 No.4208707 Minus one and a half years.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 10:30:16 2012 No.4208708 >>4208706 Define: artificial

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 10:30:16 2012 No.4208710 >>4208707 Got link to more info on it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 10:33:32 2012 No.4208712 >>4208710 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Venter Last part.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 10:33:32 2012 No.4208713 >>4208708 made a new life with chemicals

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 10:34:39 2012 No.4208714 >>4208713 cheers bro

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 10:34:39 2012 No.4208715 >>4208713 Then we do that every time we reproduce so i guess like -4 billion years or something

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 10:37:03 2012 No.4208721 >>4208715 hmm... i think you are confused what i was asking. reproducing is not artificial.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 10:43:52 2012 No.4208734 >>4208721 You just defined it as making new life with chemicals. A sperm and egg combining to make an embryo is just a chemical reaction. Thus by your own definition it is creating artificial life.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 10:48:16 2012 No.4208742 File: 75 KB, 500x500, bully.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4208734

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 10:50:32 2012 No.4208747 File: 133 KB, 361x358, butthurt.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4208742

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 10:57:20 2012 No.4208758 >>4208712 That was partly artificial life, because they used an already existing membrane, but yeah, the DNA was artificial.