Scientists expect to create life in next 10 years...we're as good as fuckin toast.

First cell of synthetic life can only be seen under a microscope...for now. Eventually, they will be your slaves, and then your next door neighbors, and then your bosses, and then your political leaders, and then you are absolutely fucked.

	This photo, provided by ProtoLife, shows vesicles, artificial membranes for cells, made from scratch. Teams around the world, including ProtoLife, are trying to create synthetic life in a lab.  The question burning inside of you at this point should be.... "WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU WANT TO DO THAT?"   View related photos
Martin Hanczyc / AP

By Seth Borenstein

Updated: 6:05 p.m. PT Aug 20, 2007

WASHINGTON - Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer.

  I don't know about you folks... but I just shit my pants and am planning to move to Mars once they have started mass producing a new species of synthetic life to populate this already over-crowded planet.

Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of "wet artificial life."

  Which means 30 years from now that, when generation X is hooked on Ritalin and Viagra and are scooting themselves around in a souped-up hot rod wheelchair jumping curbs and wearing nothing but depends and a wife beater T, which will undoubtedly show off their 40 something year old worn away and deeply faded pathetic candy ass tattoos on their wrinkly, old  and saggy assed skin, these synthetic life forms will be writing, implementing, enforcing and carrying out all of the new laws that will govern and determine how the elderly are cared for, if at all. 

"It's going to be a big deal and everybody's going to know about it," said Mark Bedau, chief operating officer of ProtoLife of Venice, Italy, one of those in the race. "We're talking about a technology that could change our world in pretty fundamental ways — in fact, in ways that are impossible to predict."

   Quite possibly, in ways that could see the end of human life as we know it.  Gee, synthetic life.... isn't the idea splendid?

     It will be just like great sex.....only in a rubber body suit.

      It will be just like a great concert or a deeply moving performance ....only completely devoid of all natural feelings.

That first cell of synthetic life — made from the basic chemicals in DNA — may not seem like much to non-scientists. For one thing, you'll have to look in a microscope to see it. 

  That is, until it starts to cell-divide and begin the process of synthetic unnatural growth manifesting itself into a living, breathing non-human life- form programmed to look and act just like a human being...only without a soul. 

 Gee, I can't fuckin wait for all these little Hitlers to be delivered into this world thanks to some palm-greased egomaniacal government-owned fascist scientist with a penchant for self destruction and for the sinister idea of creating a super Aryan race. 

"Creating protocells has the potential to shed new life on our place in the universe," Bedau said. "This will remove one of the few fundamental mysteries about creation in the universe and our role."

   And that is to say that in one fell swoop, we will altogether dispel the idea of a Creator and therefore establish self-righteous and complete self-rule and exterminate the need for organized religion, faith, good will toward men and good old fashioned prayer in general. 

And several scientists believe man-made life forms will one day offer the potential for solving a variety of problems, from fighting diseases to locking up greenhouse gases to eating toxic waste...

 .... to say, eating human flesh etc...

Bedau figures there are three major hurdles to creating synthetic life:

• A container, or membrane, for the cell to keep bad molecules out, allow good ones, and the ability to multiply.
• A genetic system that controls the functions of the cell, enabling it to reproduce and mutate in response to environmental changes.
• A metabolism that extracts raw materials from the environment as food and then changes it into energy.
• oh yea, and maybe one more...the human soul seems to be eluding us a little bit.

One of the leaders in the field, Jack Szostak at Harvard Medical School, predicts that within the next six months, scientists will report evidence that the first step — creating a cell membrane — is "not a big problem." Scientists are using fatty acids in that effort.

     The real tricky problem will be how to control the millions upon millions of these over produced, synthetic and loveable robotic human look-a-likes once they realize their apparent strength in numbers, and begin the inevitable process of total rule and world domination.

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Szostak is also optimistic about the next step — getting nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA, to form a working genetic system.

His idea is that once the container is made, if scientists add nucleotides in the right proportions, then Darwinian evolution could simply take over.

 And create an ever evolving nightmare that exponentially grows into the eventual extinction of mankind out of the necessity of "survival of the fittest".

"We aren't smart enough to design things, we just let evolution do the hard work and then we figure out what happened," Szostak said.

  Excuse me, come again Einstein?

In Gainesville, Fla., Steve Benner, a biological chemist at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution is attacking that problem by going outside of natural genetics. Normal DNA consists of four bases — adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine (known as A,C,G,T) — molecules that spell out the genetic code in pairs. Benner is trying to add eight new bases to the genetic alphabet.

  All this Witchcraft and playing God conjures up images of a mad scientist and a green fellow named Frankenstein.

   Sounds to me like a recipe for disaster.  I don't know... call me old fashioned, but I like my humans chock full of mistakes and bad smells.

Bedau said there are legitimate worries about creating life that could "run amok," but there are ways of addressing it, and it will be a very long time before that is a problem.

 Yeah, let's leave all those serious fuckin problems to our grandchildren.  Fuck 'em... lets play house and let them clean it up.

"When these things are created, they're going to be so weak, it'll be a huge achievement if you can keep them alive for an hour in the lab," he said. "But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen."

  REALLY??? 

  "I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern ship building has gone beyond that."
-Captain Smith, Commander of Titanic

      WHEN DID WE GET SO STUPID AND IRRESPONSIBLE THAT WE COULD TURN A BLIND EYE TOWARD THE REAL POSSIBILTY OF MAD SCIENTISTS CREATING ARTIFICIAL LIFE IN A LAB FROM SCRATCH WITH NO HUMAN INTERACTION NECESSARY FOR INCEPTION AND GROWTH?

HAVE WE ALL LOST OUR FUCKIN MINDS?  ARE WE THAT PASSIVE OF A SOCIETY THAT WE COULD ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES WITHOUT HAVING ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT WHAT IT COULD MEAN FOR THE FUTURE OF MANKIND?

    DOES ANYONE HAVE A FUCKING CONSCIENCE ANYMORE?

     THIS IS ABSOLUTELY FUCKING ABSURD TO ME AND I CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE I HAVE TO ACTUALLY CONSIDER LIVING THROUGH A SCI-FI MOVIE NIGHTMARE COME TO FRUITION.

   I THNK THERE IS A LOT TO BE SAID FOR UNCONSCIOUSNESS.  

    FUCKING IDIOTS.