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Tomorrow Belongs To Us - 11/3/2007 5:09:17 AM   
RealityLicks


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How long before we are all made this way?
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RE: Tomorrow Belongs To Us - 11/3/2007 5:37:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well if we are all going to be mice, i want to be Mickey !!

As for genetics, i just think its a slippery slope for mankind.

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RE: Tomorrow Belongs To Us - 11/3/2007 6:21:17 AM   
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Status: offline 		I dont think its a slippery slope. I think in the long run genetic research will be a positive thing. Right now its certainly a positive for the Drug companies. That was made clear in the article. And personally? If offered the chance to keep my body in shape and have it run well with a pill or whatever, I'd do it. Case in point. Rhodiola. Ive started taking that daily. After 7 days I noticed a difference. Rhodiola is an herbal supplement available already. So I'd be part of the market for sure for super drugs. 

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RE: Tomorrow Belongs To Us - 11/3/2007 6:33:25 AM   
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Status: offline 		Knowledge is great but my concern is that it is always the wrong people that get hold of the technology. You can bet your life that it will be the military-industrial complex that will eventually run with this knowledge and it will be used mainly for negative things rather than positive things. However, my guess is people never realize the nightmare they are living because that is all they know and will be glad for the time they live in rather than wishing they lived in some other time. Just better the devil you know. This will be like every other potential nightmare technology, people will get used to it and see it as normal.

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RE: Tomorrow Belongs To Us - 11/3/2007 9:53:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		My thoughts are that companies will use genetic engineering for food, not for the betterment of mankind, but to increase profit. I dont know about Rhodiola but i thought it was a plant and not genetically modified. My reference to a slippery slope was more aimed towards the original qiuestion, which i regarded as interefering with breeding, more than producing new drugs or food.

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RE: Tomorrow Belongs To Us - 11/3/2007 10:59:52 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hmm, it's hard to believe that food will be the only product of this kind of research, apart from the geeks involved saying its being sponsored by big pharma.

Not sure I 'd eat one of those bad boys, even if I could catch one.

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RE: Tomorrow Belongs To Us - 11/3/2007 11:07:46 AM   
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RE: Tomorrow Belongs To Us - 11/3/2007 11:37:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		Good call Luna but don't forget an enhanced human would probably look more like the thing in Resident Evil than a gorgeous replicant a la Sean Young. Knowing my luck.

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RE: Tomorrow Belongs To Us - 11/3/2007 12:29:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes, I remember the Nemesis Project produced TWO specimens, the female was enhanced beyond human norms, but when they did it to the male, it enhanced him, true, but mutated him beyond any recognition as human...the metal they grafted onto him afterward didn't help that much!

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RE: Tomorrow Belongs To Us - 11/3/2007 1:41:56 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: meatcleaver
You can bet your life that it will be the military-industrial complex that will eventually run with this knowledge and it will be used mainly for negative things rather than positive things.


For the sake of our message board friend, UtopianRanger, let's all envision Captain America with a mean streak a mile wide.

Just for a moment...

And then the Red Skull kills him.



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RE: Tomorrow Belongs To Us - 11/3/2007 5:24:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		I guess my point was, if the choice was given us for sefl "improvement" I think lots of us would try it. Gene splicing pill taking, whatever. I mean, Im old enough to recall when "test tube babies" were the big bruhaha. And now in-vitro is pretty common and has seemed to do good for couples who want/need help. They would agrue we're better for the "invention". 

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RE: Tomorrow Belongs To Us - 11/3/2007 8:14:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		Reality check: in a world of literally billions of people, no one needs those fertility techniques. We are just weakening the gene pool by overriding nature's veto that a couple shouldn't have offspring for whatever reason they can't procreate without resorting to science.

All we have done is allowed people to buy back into the overpopulation spiked resource wars that will mostly likely arrive in the next century for the benefit of everyone's children or grandchildren.

I mean, you know, maybe there's a reason people can't or shouldn't have kids. Our DNA knows the reason even if we can't decipher it.



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RE: Tomorrow Belongs To Us - 11/3/2007 8:26:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wow, overpopulation causes friction and uses up resources faster?
Sounds like something I'd say!

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RE: Tomorrow Belongs To Us - 11/3/2007 8:48:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have a friend from Dublin, Ireland who's a Biological Chemist at Tufts Uny in Boston.
When people ask him what he's working on he says, "Oh, they assigned me to that new Master Race Project."

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RE: Tomorrow Belongs To Us - 11/4/2007 6:35:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well this certainly explains where my current "henry" comes from (i name all the mice that come to visit, figuring i might as well know who i'm yelling at and chasing..lol.  This current "crop" of em seem indestructible.  Sheesh...

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RE: Tomorrow Belongs To Us - 11/8/2007 5:35:46 AM   
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RE: Tomorrow Belongs To Us - 11/8/2007 5:47:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		Now they are going to have to create super cats to catch the mice and then super dogs to catch the cats....where will it all end!

Seriously though...that's cool.

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