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Well, to quote Carl Sagan, if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. I doubt human technology will be able to create l
by user_7832 4y ago
Well, to quote Carl Sagan, if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
I doubt human technology will be able to create life from organic molecules for at least several decades if not centuries.
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- LinuxBender 4y agoHere is a auto-tuned song of Carl Sagan [1] saying that quote so that others may have it stuck in their heads and to share the full quote. [1] - https://amorningfilledwith400billionsuns.ytmnd.com/ https://amorningfilledwith400billionsuns.ytmnd.com/
- ikt 4y agoThanks for taking me back to 2009* (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc)
- intrasight 4y agoWhat a great quote!
- ralusek 4y agoAnd to think he was just trying to convince a kernel developer that it would be fine to use JS, just this one time, for a simple UI he needed.
- guggleet 4y agoWe already can...? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology
- s1artibartfast 4y agoI think syntactic biology is still very far from creating lifeforms from atomic or molecular precursors. Xenobots, for example are made using harvested stem cells
- adrianN 4y agoDepends on what you mean by "can". From the Wikipedia article: "A living "artificial cell" has been defined as a completely synthetic cell that can capture energy, maintain ion gradients, contain macromolecules as well as store information and have the ability to mutate. Nobody has been able to create such a cell."
- guggleet 4y agoCompletely synthetic, no, but I think that overlooks a lot.