Topic: This can NOT be good...

[Pugnate]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10132762.stm

[Folk]

Isn't this how we get replicants and cylons in the future?  I'm excited for all of the fantastic scifi drama that's sure to come from this breakthrough!

[idolminds]

Huh, cool.

[Pugnate]

I am just worried these people will create some bacteria or something that will wipe out half our species.

[ScaryTooth]

Or create Zombies!

This is awesome. Cool stuff. I'm curious to see how humanity evolves, and progresses throughout my lifetime. What kind of cool stuff will I see in the future? It's always interesting to me.

I am pretty sure that humans will destroy themselves in the next few hundred years though. Either that or nature will thin us out quite a bit again.

[scottws]

Haven't these people seen I Am Legend?

[Pugnate]

haha yea I was thinking that they hadn't been keeping up with the post-apocalyptic sci-fi movies.

[Xessive]

In my experience most "scientists" can't suspend their disbelief for very long. I watched "The Chronicles of Riddick" with two friends who were doing their Masters in Biology and Physics and basically the evening was a critique of the movie's implausibility. Basically arguments that would also apply to Star Trek but if I had used them against it they would have been offended. Frickin' Trekkies. I like Star Trek but it is not my Bible for the future.

[scottws]

Yeah but Chronicles of Riddick sucked bad.  It deserves every insult thrown at it.  I mean come on, the "Necromongers" and "The Underverse"?  That alone is bad enough, but then there is the remainder of the movie.  There is very little redeeming about the movie.  What a disappointment after Pitch Black.

[Xessive]

Yeah but Chronicles of Riddick sucked bad.  It deserves every insult thrown at it.  I mean come on, the "Necromongers" and "The Underverse"?  That alone is bad enough, but then there is the remainder of the movie.  There is very little redeeming about the movie.  What a disappointment after Pitch Black.

Ha yeah I know, I wish that's what they criticized! They were caught up in the pseudo-science of it

Oh that reminds me, have you guys seen Dr. Michio Kaku's series "Sci Fi Science: Physics of The Impossible"? It's a pretty good 12-part series. Here's a segment from "How to Build a Light Saber"