6. "it starts with modifying genes to prevent/cure disease." In response to Reply # 5
but what next? it just stays there?
do people get to build-a-bear and choose features?
does a guy get tired of white men not being able to jump and go in the lab and get all video gamish and create a player?
if you can make people resistant to disease, what can you do about pain threshold? can you eliminate healing time? or set it up so that the injury never occurred?
*** I ain't lyin. This shit i'm making up is true...
8. "RE: it starts with modifying genes to prevent/cure disease." In response to Reply # 6
>but what next? it just stays there? > >do people get to build-a-bear and choose features?
they could try...but half of the battle in genetic modifying is environment
>does a guy get tired of white men not being able to jump and >go in the lab and get all video gamish and create a player?
but this is not how genetics works its like a source code for a program your environment is the computer if I have this killer source code but the environment doesnt have the computing power to keep up then it doesnt matter
>if you can make people resistant to disease, what can you do >about pain threshold? can you eliminate healing time? or set >it up so that the injury never occurred?
Short answer is we are getting closer to getting answers to questions you just asked...but as far as genetic modification we are a long way away from seeing products from a lab jump into real life
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>Short answer is we are getting closer to getting answers to >questions you just asked...but as far as genetic modification >we are a long way away from seeing products from a lab jump >into real life
At the rate tech is moving nowadays, I wouldn't be surprised if in a generation, but likely about 10 yrs, medicine is engineering genetic immunizations pre-birth and getting hit with "Can my baby have hazel eyes?" and responses like "Sure but your insurance won't cover it, and the cost will be about $8000".
-DJ R-Tistic- Member since Nov 06th 2008 51986 posts
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9. "I had a crazy fascination with genetic engineering in HS" In response to Reply # 0
Mainly after taking Biology. I even considered studying it for college.
The way I see it, it's gonna be a a loooooooooota glitches. Even aside from us Christians who feel like it's somewhat "playing God," which I don't personally believe but I get...I feel like it'll be similar to creating computer code. When you're dealing with millions of DNA strands...it's gonna be a LOTTA defects, and even if they think they're only pinpointing certain strands, I can see it being a lot of trial an error. Some of those errors may not even show at birth.
I would personally ONLY do it for health purposes, because I've suffered with allergies my entire life. I used to think I would do it to make my kids tall, but nah, I can't have a son a foot taller than me anyway...he gotta suffer like me.
13. "its is basically like software to a degree." In response to Reply # 9
you modify on thing to fix a fault, but what else is affected by this fix? they end up doing dna OS updates and patches, but still end up with security flaws.
Come in and customize the hell out of your genes. I want the Lebron James gene. Give me the President Barack Obama gene. Give Quest's drumming skills gene. I want Avocado's cinematography gene. Give Warren Buffet's get money gene.
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I literally want to be able spend time customizing my genes like they're smartphones. We should reach that point in 40 years.
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