Thursday, August 21, 2008

Darwin's Lab: Scientists on Brink of Creating Life -A Galaxy Classic

 

"When these things are created," Bedau added, "they're going to be so weak, it'll be a huge achievement if you can keep them alive for an hour in the lab," he said. "But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen.

"We're talking about a technology that could change our world in pretty fundamental ways — in fact, in ways that are impossible to predict."

Darwin's Lab: Scientists on Brink of Creating Life -A Galaxy Classic

 

Never in my imagination, could one man, working for the US Government get control of anthrax and kill people with it.  I have to wonder about the controls on this system.

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