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To: Brumar89 who wrote (94225)	1/20/2005 10:49:42 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

"Ah, you do have a god - or rather gods." No, she's only mocking the concept of God. She thinks she's being clever.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (94225)	1/21/2005 12:13:33 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

"I know about cloning and genetic engineering but we are essentially merely messing around with life forms already in existence. " New yup "Scientists Create "Radically Different" New Life Form By rickyjames, Section News Posted on Tue Jan 14th, 2003 at 12:29:48 PM PST It's not alien life, exactly, or artificial life, either, but a special mixture of both that's worth suffering through a little science background to fully appreciate just how unique it really is. All life on Earth has DNA loaded with genes that are instructions on how to make proteins. These proteins are thousands of special, different chemicals that are used as building blocks to make up cells and ultimately bodies. For all their variety, building block proteins are all pretty much the same thing: chains made from other chemicals called amino acids. From the dawn of time, life on Earth has used exactly the same twenty distinct amino acids over and over again in different combinations to make various proteins. Many other available amino acid types which COULD have been incorporated into proteins have been totally ignored by life on Earth - until now. In work announced yesterday, scientists at Scripps Research Institute have tinkered with the genetic code of an E. coli bacteria so that it can use 21 distinct amino acids instead of only the standard 20 in the building of its cellular proteins. Furthermore, that 21st amino acid can be virtually ANY of the other thousands of previously unutilized amino acids, perhaps even one that is right now in common use by some distant planet's life forms. (Example: ever wonder how that alien in Alien could have acid saliva capable of eating thru the metal deck plate of a spaceship but not through the bottom of its own mouth? Obviously the proteins of its body had some non-terrestrial amino acid in its makeup!) The potential for creating totally new categories of cellular proteins that might be found in truly exotic, alien species far from Earth is mind-boggling. In one sense it is as though life on Earth has always been sketched with 20 different-shade-of-grey pencils, and now suddenly an extra colored pencil of any hue can be used. Who knows what will be drawn next? " Raised from the dead. Yup "Man Dead 72 Mins Is Revived [Original headline: BACK FROM DEAD ...AFTER AN HOUR] Doctors have brought a man back from the dead - after his heart had stopped beating for more than an hour. Father-of-two Sergio Ricci, 47, who suffered a cardiac arrest, was clinically dead for 72 minutes, but a team of surgeons battled to restart his heart using hand massage. The doctors' joy was tinged with concern that Signor Ricci might have suffered brain damage, but he is now expected to make a full recovery. Signor Ricci, who works for the Italian government, is recovering in a convalescence home near Turin, Italy. Last night, he said: "It's miracle - as if I have been born a second time. I shall always be grateful to the doctors and nurses." • Originally published by • Sunday Mirror / London - February 18 2001 " ................... There's a million of these "brought back from the dead" stories. Pretty cool stuff. And these folks are REALLY dead- as opposed to in past times, when folks often got buried before they were really dead. Yeah. I'm sure you're not impressed. But I am impressed as heck with what science can do. Impresses me a lot more than supernatural unprovable palaver. But that's me. The supernatural appeals to a lot of people. Of course lots of people differ on just what supernatural forced they believe in, and that's fine too. It's probably hard to agree on something you can't prove, can't see, can't touch and can't test. You and I can't even agree that science has created new forms of life and that doctors can revive dead people- and we've got facts in front of us. Go figure.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (94225)	1/21/2005 1:50:38 AM
From: Kid Rock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I know about cloning and genetic engineering but we are essentially merely messing around with life forms already in existence. not anymore! wired.com