But what’s gonna happen when one of these spiders then bites some human. Maybe a teenager, a science-geek or something?
Maybe need a ‘show why science is killing all the cool conspiracies’ thread:
For very small values of lucky.
It’s just at the building block stage, but holy crap, we’re creating alien life (or at least the basis for it) right here on earth!
Some researchers at Scripps, collaborating with a biotech company, decided to just expand the possibilities by adding two more bases that can interact with each other but not any of the four existing bases. To make sure that works, they got rid of the hydrogen bonding entirely; instead, the new bases interact through hydrophobic contacts—they stay stuck together because neither interacts well with the watery environment around them.
It’s easy to draw out the bases’ structures and see that they’d fit into DNA. And it’s possible to show that they work in a test tube. But getting them to work in an organism is a different matter entirely.
So, yeah, we’ve created a new DNA pair which can create proteins. Tinkertoys of the Universe, unite!
The problem is that before we can gengineer a new and improved human, the Earth will be too hot and wet for any life. As we know it, at least.
No real sentience yet (that we know of!) but looks like the tools are now in place for the takeover once Skynet wakes up.
Mountains of Madness anybody?
They should have named the penguin after Lovecraft or at least Leng.
Truly a missed opportunity.
Great auks were nearly a metre tall and they lived until the 19th century
The stories of how they were hunted to extinction are horrifying.
Humans suck.
Thank goodness! Where else would we end Goldeneye on N64.
Maybe Alzheimer’s is caused by a vaccine then?