Playing God
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Adam Rutherford meets a new creature created by American scientists - the spider-goat. It is part goat, part spider, and its milk can be used to create artificial spider's web.
It is part of a new field of research, synthetic biology, with a radical aim: to break down nature into spare parts so that we can rebuild it however we please.
This technology is already being used to make bio-diesel to power cars. Other researchers are looking at how we might, one day, control human emotions by sending biological machines into our brains.
Ihat poor guy making the about to be banned deisel
This an april fool
Anyone annoyed he says Bill Gates started in his garage?... Because that's not accurate. Pretty sure he combined the Apple story and Microsoft story... Minor i know but still...
warning: advertisement literally every 4 to 5 minutes
Compared to Kevlar? Weapons application, they didn't mention that
So, how long until we do this with a human and create Spiderman? =P
Hate spiders....
goat smacka @ 5:46
Stopped watching when they mixed religion and god into the documentary...
the thinking behind this is so flawed - not the experiments they are simply a product of flawed thinking that sees mankind as some sort of machine with out a living consciousness - this Newtonian thinking is a big part of why the human race is so behind the 8 ball on every thing ....its men thinking like men along a very narrow band of consciousness ...sure they might have aulteristic reasons for it ...but even those are flawed premises considered real - this sort of thinking is what bio tech companies are toxcifying the world for - its quite shameful and embarrassing really that this passes for intelligence when really it is so backwards in its basic understanding
I wonder how many comments on this thread are about synthetic biology. I think the people who made this doc knew that by using the word GOD they would gain the interest of the mass more so then by calling it Playing with Synthetic BIology.
Wonder what the word GOD means to them?...the future?
az
"I am done in here at least."
I certainly hope so.
Moderator :
Stop your selective unfair bias censership , please & display my 2 missing comments .
You are a disgrace & shame to this great site & to the freedom of speech as most of these silly childish ignorant backward guys are by the way .
Stereotypes , brainwash , prejudices .... the racist imperialistic cultural paternalistic Eurocentrism die hard , i see : proving the case of Edward Said "s great "Orientalism " book right every single moment of the day .
Thanks for just that .
I am done in here at least .
"The rest of your silly ignorant arrogant rhetorics & silly assumptions are irrelevent "
"the rest of your silly talk is irrelevent"
"Check that material i presented , lazy soul"
"Would you please try to make some of these vulgar ignorant stupid disgusting people behave"
"I do not understand why these idiots feel they have to use vulgar insults or vulgar rhetorics...amazing ."
do you think that you should be speaking like them WHILE trying to condemn the way they are speaking?
ignore the personal attacks and just focus on the refutations people present.
you have bought into some things because they already fell inline with the belief system you were raised in. you didnt assess it critically like a rational person ought to.
The world should recognize and thank what the arabic world brought us in the form of knowledge. however the same applies for the mayan and aztecs, the chinese and japanese, the indian, and all those around the mediterranean.
all cultures brought us amazing advancements. no one should ignore those. but no one should pretend that any group of people has some special place within that field because their ancestors happened to have started it.
hell we should all be thanking africans for fire if that were the case.
What i find really confusing is that for the amount of posts you have one here you have seemed to say very little or present very little in ways of an argument or case.
This is no way of conducting discussions .
If people do not agree with others , they should react properly .
I do not understand why these idiots feel they have to use vulgar insults or vulgar rhetorics...amazing .
Do your job , moderator & stop being unfair & taking sides .
This is really childish behaviour .
To whom it may concern : to the responsible moderator :
Would you please try to make some of these vulgar ignorant stupid disgusting people behave , please ?
I am really fed up with this irrespectful non-sense of theirs .
I presented my material here below for them to check out , in order to help them trigger their own inquiries on the matter because it would take way too much time to discuss it i cannot afford to waste .
It's up to them to do whatever they wanna do with that material .
Some of these vulgar ignorant disgusting guys have been saying nothing but filth :
Try to make them behave , please : they are a shame to this great site .
This is outrageous , i do not wanna lose my temper any further .
This was my very last comment in this topic at least , so.
Assume your responsibilities, please , moderator .
Thanks, appreciate indeed .
Guys :
Just take a look at the facts presented by me here below in my long post , otherwise there is no need to continue this discussion .
When people refuse to take a look at facts & at some data, & just resort to insults , empty rhetorics & silly assumptions instead , then , there is no point in continuing the discussion .
I can understand your frustration at not being able to refute anything that I have written, probably due in large part to your lack of education, especially in science and history, as Vlad has so well brought out.
Speaking of sticking to the facts and not making silly assumptions, how do you know that Islam will be back soon?
You're beyond pathetic.
The definition of science I have provided is mainstream with objectivity at the heart of it, whether you like it or not, whether you think so or not.
What cannot be proved empirically is not science; it is merely belief or faith which has no place in science and to state that just because something cannot be proved empirically does not mean it does not exist exhibits an intellectual vacuity and scientific deficiency tantamount to believing in spirits.
Speaking of the unscientific and faith-based, how do you know that Islam will be back soon--or do you expect us merely to take your word for it?
P.S. Addressing Vlatko as "man" is just as Neanderthal as addressing me as "buddy." In short, what you lack in education, you also lack in class.
@AbdelZ,
Your convo (scientist can't create life, life is not just a matter of material processes, science has no objectivity, science is the same as religion etc) is just a pattern with no basis whatsoever, and can be found in the words of every wannabe Islam defender on the net, in fact in every religious "fundie speaker" out there.
Science does not owe its existence to Muslims. That is a gross exaggeration and disinformation. Science owes its existence to the spear-man in the stone-age. From there it is developed, expanded, and built upon.
Every single culture and nation on this planet contributes to its beauty. Muslims are just one peace of the cake, nothing more. Don't flatter yourself. It is true, they've invented lot of stuff, introduced lot of new methods, made many useful experiments, in their Golden Age, but every culture had a Golden Age in the past, and made a lot of stunning contributions. Further more since 15th century, Muslims are stagnating in that regard.
Not to mention the early Greek and Persian scientists from where Muslims got their basic knowledge.
dam im 6 minutes in and the guy has already said a thousand times '' so THESE goats have spider gens in them''...
yeh man get over it and tell us something new geeeeEEZ are we all so stupid?
It will be like in the Hunger Games where there are jabberjays and mockingjays. Damn...
The description is a bit misleading. I was expecting to see a documentary on a cross bred spider goat. Like a goat that could squirt webs from its teats and had 8 legs. That aside it really wasn't that amazing once you find out that a lengthy process is required to extract enzymes etc.. to make a few weak strands of web that kept breaking when they were pulled. Lots of really boring parts.. Really hope they get to the point where they can produce it efficiently though. Imagine the bridges you could build with that stuff
Still walking backwards after watching it
synthetic biology will inevitably leak into the natural world
S B-------a new toy for humanity
where is the research on what the side effects and repercussions on the natural world will be, isn't this part of the scientific method, before we get carried away?