Designer Babies, One Step Closer

i honestly believe china just looked at its youth and went " *** this lets scrap the whole thing and breed out the defects" lol

Wow don't know how that happened. I type fast on an iphone and I know I never manually put in apostrophes, just let auto correct do it. Then rechecking any mistakes after I post. And I still can't replicate that. And I missed it on the recheck.
Apologies.
As I can see it has affected you in some way.

So I would like to take the time to say, that myself and the rest of the community are happy and feel much safer, that we have the grammar police keeping these boards clean.
Thank you.
/salute

Because it would be a damn shame if you had to guarantee your child didn't have a genetic disorder.

How many times in the past have we been told something is impossible only to turn around and achieve it?

How many people have religions put to death for challenging their "iron clad" "facts"?

You mean like when people believed the earth was flat and you can never sail straight to reach another land, or you will fall off the earth?

Or how man will never fly in the air?

Or reach the moon?

Or develop a weapon so horrible it would destroy an entire civilization in less than a minute?

Hell, even outside of the realm of "scientific advancement", for the longest time people thought it was impossible to run a sub-four-minute mile until Roger Bannister did it. Now atheletes do it regulary.

Nuclear weapons aren't that bad. They are bad, but their effects have been dramatically overhyped by the media, they have some pretty severe limitations that restricts their use. Biological weapons on the other hand, those are FAR more dangerous that smashing atoms together in the home for a semi-controlled fusion boosted fission reaction.

DNA does not make any transition to anything. It codes instructions for protein folding.


Fly-Casting in Protein - DNA Binding: Frustration between Protein Folding
and Electrostatics Facilitates Target Recognition

(Do not blame the title on me)

It'd have been better if he said 'city' than 'civilization'.

Biological/Chemical weapons are more frightening because the contagions could be spread and dying via these methods is extremely horrific. Being nuked in comparison is quick and painless.

I was talking about the internet.

How else can you destroy a whole civilization in less than a minute other than to post misinformation to stir up discord and enmity among a group of people.

It worked for the Arab Spring....

As an English teacher, kinda, yeah. Typically, I don't make comments, but when the issue is so glaring, it's hard for me to restrain myself. Remember, I'm not grading you. I'm grading the error.

Y U DO TIS 2 MEE?

No chuckle, and your pain has no meaning.

GOOD DAY TO YOU, SIR

All pain has meaning, man.

You're an English teacher. You know this.

If pain had no meaning you wouldn't make kids read "classic" literature that's just terrible.

YOU HEAR THAT, MRS. KESSLER?! GREAT EXPECTATIONS AND RETURN OF THE NATIVE ARE COMPLETE ***!

Oh, you wanna fight? Believe you me, I can throw down in this thread if this is what you want. I don't even care about the topic. Designer babies? Yeah, whatever. FISTICUFFS, SIRRAH!

I dunno. I've seen your picture. And I see your beard is as rugged as mine. You really want a piece of this, knowing you could lose as likely as win?

I think, instead, we should pull a Wonder Boy and Nasty Man combo move and become Tenacious B(eards).

I see what you're saying. Instead of using our obviously tremendous powers against each other, we should combine our efforts and promote love....... AND PEACE!



Just like Wonderboy and Young Nasty Man.

Ahh yeah I see. Thought virus's (idea's) are much more dangerous then any other weapon mankind has ever created.


Chemical weapons are only effective if your talking cost vs destruction, otherwise they are too limited. Nukes waste entirely too much of their power kill birds and sterilizing the upper atmosphere to really get a high kill count. Biological weapons on the other hand are just downright effective. Minimal delivery mechanism needed, impossible to detect or intercept the delivery vehicle and use's your opponents own people against them. When it comes down to potential kill-count, absolutely nothing beats biological. The only down side is there is an amazingly high chance of it effecting your own people, and even if you developed an antidote / vaccine ahead of time, there is the possibility it will mutate in the target population and render your preparations worthless. It's potential for mass destruction is the reason nobody wants to develop them, too damn dangerous.

On topic. I don't think it's the designer babies everyone has a problem with.... It's not even a problem with the evil scientists like myself working towards a world without ugliness.... and midgets. Scientists are gunna science...it's what we do and I think everyone is on board with that.

If we are honest with ourselves, the real problem we have is with the people who want to have the designer babies. We Hate Them and we don't want them to have nice things.

Or anything else that they might want... whatever they want is wrong and they should feel bad for wanting it.

and we're all going to sit here and gripe about it until the time comes that a break-thru is made. And your gynecologist is going to come to you, the anxious newly pregnant couple and offer you a few options,

what if we could guarantee that your new baby won't have autism? or cancer? or als? or heart disease? or nearsightedness? or bad breath? or aunt alice's weak ankles?

oh honey what about the diabetes that runs in your family?

now we're talking

it just so happens that we can eliminate that too.....

and by the way... would you prefer blue eyes? or brown?

http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/translation-dna-to-mrna-to-protein-393

translation, not transition

Yes it would. Who are you to tell me I have to alter my child. If my parents had done something like that to me I would disown them.

The religious nuts make debating this topic impossible.

Oh look, more genetic arrogance.

"My genes are so important they must be passed on, even if they're faulty and will lead to unnecessary adversity for my child. *pounds chest* FOR GOD AND 'MURICA!*"

Except they could have saved your life. You could have had a deadly congenital heart defect that caused you to die in infancy.

So they'd have saved your life so you could treat them like ***for doing so.

oh look, more idiotic arrogance where you think what you believe is best for someone else must take place. *pounds chest* FOR MY IVORY TOWER!

So what.

Aww. You're trying to turn it around!

That's ADORABLE!




That's like when people say evolution is "just a theory".

There's no question that eliminating genetic diseases is what's best for people. There is potentially a basis for fear of abuses if taken further, but the core concept isn't questionable as a good thing.

Talk to a couple trying to conceive or that wanted a baby and have had a miscarriage/stillbirth/etc. sometime and ask them if they're happy with "God's big plan".

Violet like Liz Taylor.

SMILEY FACE LIKE IN LAST ACTION HERO!