Sentynel wrote: And soon, as the technology gets cheaper, everyone will be beautiful, and nobody will care much about looks any more. And I think that can only be a good thing. It will suck rather in the transitional point where only rich people can get it though.

Or alternatively, everyone will look almost exactly the same or slightly creepy, because our perception of beauty usually comes from photoshopped/airbrushed magazines and it's not realistic at all. (Dove commercial)

I don't agree with designing your own babies.

If they really want to choose their appearence using genetic engineering, let them wait until their old enough to decide if they want to change their natural look. That way, their old enough to make decisions, and they have had a good sense of what they look like already.

I doubt everyone will look exactly the same. There's plenty of scope for non-genetic appearance changes once you're born, too - look at any pair of "identical" twins. I don't think we'll be around to see it happen though. (Seen that link before; a good 'un)

The problem with genetic modification is it gets harder with every new cell in your body, and it goes from a few hundred in a new baby to an awful lot very very quickly.

Abel wrote: ive just spent supper discussing human/animal hybrids...was pretty interesting.

Helluva dinner topic.

I personally don't agree with it either, but what Apollo said wouldn't work.
The whole point in this is that before your baby's even born, you know what it'll look like; you must alter the original egg-sperm union, and fast, other wise you could get someone who's black on one side, white on ehte other.
Not good.

And wow. Cool video.
It remonds of those videos about how a lot of those burger commercials were really just wax n stuff...

Plastic surgery?

And wasn't there already a baby like that?

i think we got shown that video in a biology lesson once...

im all for leaving people as they are but somehow preventing people with serious inheritable mental/physical disabilities from reproducing. phase stuff out naturally.

well yeah, that definetly worth it.
As for pulling a Dove commercial, hell no.




Ok, since that topic seems to be winding down (the posts are getting smaller)...
Gladstone mentioned once the fact that since modern medicine is keep people alive that otherwise proabably should have died, therefore spreading their diseases, plagues, genetic goofs, and whatnot, what are the thoughts on Biological Warfare?
It goes with Genetics, since many Bio-weapons are mearly nature's version, pumped up by us.

Unless medicines are produced to counter the "Bio-Weapons", wouldn't both sides be harmed? Ie: A plague-like sickness could easily spread, even into territory you don't want it to go to. They could easily spread into the entire global population.

Besides, if one country even starts to plan to do it, other countries would retaliate in kind, leading into a mass of biological warfare, which I doubt would have a clear winner in the end.

I believe that's called M.A.D.

If Humanity really goes downhill, than what you two are saying is the question will be, "Would you like to be vaporized, or or die in a hospital bed?"

vaporised please.

The third option was take a transport with a fifth of Earth's population to go live with the utopian society on the other side of the moon, but whatever.

Fantasy2194 wrote: Unless medicines are produced to counter the "Bio-Weapons", wouldn't both sides be harmed? Ie: A plague-like sickness could easily spread, even into territory you don't want it to go to. They could easily spread into the entire global population.

besides, if one country even starts to plan to do it, other countries would retaliate in kind, leading into a mass of biological warfare, which I doubt would have a clear winner in the end.

That's why Genetics can be both Holy Grail, or Damning Sin.
Genetics is knowledge, and like knowledge, it's not inherently good or evil.
It simply depends on the use of said knowledge and Engineering.
Knowledge is Power. Power Currupts. Curruption Destroys.
The Smarter the human race gets, they more way we have of killing each other; proven fact.
But now, for the last forty years, our knowledge can not only kill another, but all.

Knowledge can be saving grace, or deadly sin...
Exactly!
Nation A has a virus with a seventy-perce

Double post merged - gladstone
Damn PS3....
Seventy percent mortality rate (lets not go Captain Trips here people), and has already administered a vaccine, under the guise of a flu vaccine.
And Voila, Nation B reveals it's own version, with the same rules applied.

Mutually Assured Destruction
MAD is the reason the Cold War never went Hot, though it did warm up a couple times...

Might wanna put these posts in the right order, my apologies for double posting, my PS3 has a limit to what one can type in a field...

Apollo wrote: The third option was take a transport with a fifth of Earth's population to go live with the utopian society on the other side of the moon, but whatever.

Books about such "utopian societies" (I had to read "The Giver", "Gathering Blue", and "Messenger" for school) encourage me to be vaporized.

Yeah...but even so, I'd wanna see it all to the end. Don't know why, I'd be having raging headaches, but I'll embrace it somehow.

Immortality sounds boring, even with TV...
You could always go Hitchhiker's and decide to use your life to insult every living being in the universe...

"Arthur Phil... Haven't I done you already?"

The off topic page of this thread was split.

Please keep on topic.

I though I was doing a good job of keeping it on topic...

Gladstone wrote: The off topic page of this thread was split.

Please keep on topic.

Yesir.

So will genetic engineerings be able to save genes that are presumably going extict? Like red hair.

In all probabilities, yes. It's quite easy. But I am no pro in genetic engineering. But I find it extremely interesting along with biotechnology.

Neither am I.

What about new genes? Natural hair of an unheard of color?