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Re-read my comment > Something more like medical grade maggots that are engineered to never reproduce would suffice. We do this sort of thing already quite a
by spicybright 4y ago
Re-read my comment
> Something more like medical grade maggots that are engineered to never reproduce would suffice.
We do this sort of thing already quite a bit.
You could also make them unable to survive without some kind of cheap chemical liquid to suspend them in.
As far as I know, it's actually a bit difficult to make new organisms that survive outside a petri dish and can spread like an unstoppable plague.
- dylan604 4y agoAnd the dinosaurs in Jurasic Park were engineered to be only females. I don't trust humans manipulating organisms at this level. We're too new at it, but I understand that you have to try things out. We all do it with code when we're learning a new language/framework/etc. However, we've all had code that was only intended to be a PoC that then gets released into production without being fully tested. That's when the issues are found. Some lab wants to monetize the thing they've spent years researching but not fully understood/tested and then we're all some scifi plot.
- KennyBlanken 4y ago....and Jurasic Park was a fictional work, just like Andromeda Strain?
- detritus 4y agoBy the same author, at that.
- kortilla 4y agoJurassic Park wasn’t real.
- jsymolon 4y agoThat was one of the major points of the novel (IMHO). "What if ..." Something that Science Fiction is best at. "Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn't Stop To Think If They Should." -- Ian Malcom (Jurassic Park) Leaded additives to gasoline came to mind as one problem that needed to be halted sooner.
- mrguyorama 4y agoLeaded gasoline was NOT a scientific invention. Leaded gasoline was chosen by the bean counters because it was cheaper.