Translation: they somehow make life.

Spades · Post by **Spades** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:47 pm

People have not even figured out how the human mind works completely. Hell, there is still shit on the bottom of the ocean we do not know anything about.

So how the hell are we supposed to figure out how to make life from scratch? I do not think we could even fully comprehend the idea. And even if we did find out, could we do it?

I highly doubt that anyone could succeed in such a task, even hundreds of years from now.

luzdzus · Post by **luzdzus** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 11:14 pm

I think the whole "creating life" thing came from DB's skimming a wiki article as if it were a comic book and picking out the most interesting phrase he could understand. Junior college dropout whose career pinnacle was working in a Gas'n'Go, remember? The Order must have some use for the particular ribozyme besides making little ribozymes.
Catalyzing its own synthesis is interesting, but the main thing ribozymes do is take apart RNA, so I'm thinking there has to be some kind of genetic rearranging involved.

sack36 · Post by **sack36** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:57 am

Spades wrote:So how the hell are we supposed to figure out how to make life from scratch?

Well, when a man loves a woman they make love. Thats when the man puts... yeah, well, you get the idea. LOL! It had to be said!

Seriously, they've been able to turn a copy of the primordial ooze into life. That was done 40 years ago. True, it was single cell organisms, but it was a creation of life of a sort. We're not as think as you dumb we are! LOL

TOSG · Post by **TOSG** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:18 am

sack36 wrote:Seriously, they've been able to turn a copy of the primordial ooze into life. That was done 40 years ago. True, it was single cell organisms, but it was a creation of life of a sort. We're not as think as you dumb we are! LOL

Not true. If you're referring to the Miller-Urey experiments, they were successful in creating small biomolecules (amino acids, etc...) from "primordial soup" and electricity, but certainly not single-celled life.

I think that luzdzus could be onto something, though.

sack36 · Post by **sack36** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:38 am

TOSG wrote:
sack36 wrote:Seriously, they've been able to turn a copy of the primordial ooze into life. That was done 40 years ago. True, it was single cell organisms, but it was a creation of life of a sort. We're not as think as you dumb we are! LOL
Not true. If you're referring to the Miller-Urey experiments, they were successful in creating small biomolecules (amino acids, etc...) from "primordial soup" and electricity, but certainly not single-celled life.

I think that luzdzus could be onto something, though.

What he said.

Sorry. Brain leak again. But that is the building block of life nevertheless.

Spades · Post by **Spades** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:53 am

Yes, that's true, but to build an entire working body? And then a mind?

Single celled organisms are a little less complicated than a human being.

Luz, what exactly could one do if one decided to rearrange RNA?