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Genetic engineering and crossing species
Do you think hybrid creatures like this will ever be possible (1/2 pig, 1/2 human)? How soon? Would it look like this?
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Re: Genetic engineering and crossing species
tell me thats a weird sculpture.
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Re: Genetic engineering and crossing species
I'd say when computers get really fast at protein folding computations. Maybe 40 years ahead with some good quantum computer advances.
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Re: Genetic engineering and crossing species
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Do you think hybrid creatures like this will ever be possible (1/2 pig, 1/2 human)? How soon? Would it look like this? [/ QUOTE ] We're not even close to this. I wouldn't worry about it. |
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Re: Genetic engineering and crossing species
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I'd say when computers get really fast at protein folding computations. Maybe 40 years ahead with some good quantum computer advances. [/ QUOTE ] What does computers folding proteins have to do with this? |
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Re: Genetic engineering and crossing species
What a sad waste that would be. They should have made a "bacon-weeping willow". That would rock!
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Re: Genetic engineering and crossing species
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What does computers folding proteins have to do with this? [/ QUOTE ] Because to get a hybrid that complex (we aren't talking about splicing a glow worm gene into a tomato to get luminescent vegetables, we're talking about complete body modification) there's gonna be a lot of work needed done; knowing precisely what a gene sequence and its protein messengers will do, and how to build a body from scratch from the amino acid to the protein to the cell and up. You can't do this when it takes you a week on a modern day computer just to figure out one single protein's 3-D model. |
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Re: Genetic engineering and crossing species
OMG, my home PC is busy folding proteins for the Zoo team in the Stanford project this minute. I wonder if I should smash the thing.
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