Hubris 2010 - Scientists create artificial life in laboratory - Times Online
Scientists create artificial life in laboratory - Times Online
After skimming this article (found on www.Bourque.com) ...
a) 'Synth' (remember the movie "Simone" with Al Pacino)
b) baby step - towards what? more funding?
c) how many of these small-and-maybe-significant-in many-years "discoveries" do we hear of each day/month/yr?
Why cannot all these "I can be God too" scientists (like this Craig Venter, genome-mapping chap), put aside their individual, very-important-to-themselves-but-of -distant-future-benefit-to-all-of-us tasks for a while and instead collaborate all-at-once & for-as-long-as-it-takes to find a "use" for spent Nuclear Power Plant fuel.
Surely that "waste" sitting in expensive-to-create and expensive-to-maintain underground or underwater warehousese can be recycled in some way to 1) produce energy/heat/electricity /etc, or 2) be re-used in the nuke plants, or refitted coal plants or 3) become non-radioactive thus removing the warehousing cost.
Stop giving government funding to any project other than ones that commit to spending a minimum 75% of their time (and that funding) on the Nuke-waste idea .... and who also agree to collaborate with all others doing likewise.
After skimming this article (found on www.Bourque.com) ...
a) 'Synth' (remember the movie "Simone" with Al Pacino)
b) baby step - towards what? more funding?
c) how many of these small-and-maybe-significant-in many-years "discoveries" do we hear of each day/month/yr?
Why cannot all these "I can be God too" scientists (like this Craig Venter, genome-mapping chap), put aside their individual, very-important-to-themselves-but-of -distant-future-benefit-to-all-of-us tasks for a while and instead collaborate all-at-once & for-as-long-as-it-takes to find a "use" for spent Nuclear Power Plant fuel.
Surely that "waste" sitting in expensive-to-create and expensive-to-maintain underground or underwater warehousese can be recycled in some way to 1) produce energy/heat/electricity /etc, or 2) be re-used in the nuke plants, or refitted coal plants or 3) become non-radioactive thus removing the warehousing cost.
Stop giving government funding to any project other than ones that commit to spending a minimum 75% of their time (and that funding) on the Nuke-waste idea .... and who also agree to collaborate with all others doing likewise.
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