Apptech wrote: > My cousin Matthew forwarded me this reference. > I was sure that it would just be more of the rubbish that pervades this = > topic but decided to have a quick look to confirm my suppositions. > > The not quite smiling face of Craig Venter that heads the article told me = > immediately that this is, after all, the real thing. > We stand on the bridge at Khazad-d=FBm. The not distant enough drums soun= d = > their doom-doom call and it's not certain, yet, if Venter is himself the = > Balrog or if he is soon to conjure it from the abyss. As he's one of my = > select group of (anti?-)heroes I can't complain all too much. > > If you can't make head nor tail of that wait a few years and it will be t= he = > only news going :-). > > http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/synthet= ic_genome?currentPage=3Dall > > > > > Russell = > = Be a good use for a space station on a non-free return trajectory me thinks. Same for Nanotech. You have a gray goop scenario happen then do nothing because in 50 years = the things going to hit the sun anyway. -- = http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist