Human-Made Molecular Machines

[dust1n]

Getting closer everyday to how cells operate and perform the most basic functions on the molecular level, and how organic matter may have arisen from inorganic matter.

Here are some molecular machines that just won some people a Nobel Peace Prize:

 

[lovesong]

This is amazing. To think, this could someday lead to completely customizable man-mad life, wow.

 

[columbus]

This stuff really scares me.
I am related to someone who works in the nanotech dept. of a huge university. The things he already knows are being done are bad enough.
One of the biggest problems I have with this is the simple fact that the first use humans usually put new technology to is weapons.
I see no reason to believe nanotech will be any different. The horrible possibilities are legion. Then there's the gene splicing tech that multiplies the horror exponentially.
Tom

 

[dust1n]

This is amazing. To think, this could someday lead to completely customizable man-mad life, wow.

The fellow that got the prize in Physiology discovered ancient as hell genes in yeast (and mammalian cells) that allow to go through a cell to go through the process of removing internal waste produces or failed organelles by dissolving the reasoning the molecules for other purposes. It's big news for those suffering from a genetic disorder, especially to long last cells like nerve cells. Could help fight things from Parkinson's to ALS.

 

[Revoltingest]

I heard an interview with one of the recipients.
Very fascinating.....very STTNG.

Btw, anyone who instantly groks that last sentence is a....

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

I heard an interview with one of the recipients.
Very fascinating.....very STTNG.

Btw, anyone who instantly groks that last sentence is a....

guilty as charged

 

[dust1n]

This stuff really scares me.
I am related to someone who works in the nanotech dept. of a huge university. The things he already knows are being done are bad enough.
One of the biggest problems I have with this is the simple fact that the first use humans usually put new technology to is weapons.
I see no reason to believe nanotech will be any different. The horrible possibilities are legion. Then there's the gene splicing tech that multiplies the horror exponentially.
Tom

Luckily, no one knows enough about controlling any of it application. I just might not live before humanity employs technologically for those purposes.

 

[dust1n]

I heard an interview with one of the recipients.
Very fascinating.....very STTNG.

Btw, anyone who instantly groks that last sentence is a....

I saw the guy who the physics explain his idea with a bagel and pretzel. But, it got a little too complicated for me. Something about topology on the quantum level.

 

[columbus]

I heard an interview with one of the recipients.
Very fascinating.....very STTNG.

Btw, anyone who instantly groks that last sentence is a....

I had to google it.
But I am still kinda nerdy.
Tom

 

[columbus]

Luckily, no one knows enough about controlling any of it application. I just might not live before humanity employs technologically for those purposes.

If someone had told me in 1985 that I would be communicating with you over a computer more powerful than Deep Blue(that I bought for $150)
by satellite I would not have thought it possible.
Tom

 

[Etritonakin]

Getting closer everyday to how cells operate and perform the most basic functions on the molecular level, and how organic matter may have arisen from inorganic matter.

Here are some molecular machines that just won some people a Nobel Peace Prize:

Sure is taking a whole lot of effort to show how something might have happened without a whole lot of effort!



There seems to be some sort of belief that there is some sort of belief that the elements just happened to exist and God did or did not create/need to create things from them.

God is credited with the creation of the heavens/worlds -the universe itself -including the formation of the elements -which would include anything they produced without continued effort -which is not to say the formation of life did or did not require continued effort.

Science seems to believe that the emergence of life was due to the nature of the big bang, etc. -and we have changed the nature of life by decision -and none of that is in opposition to a God having declared the end from the beginning.

 

[Lighthouse]

This stuff really scares me.
I am related to someone who works in the nanotech dept. of a huge university. The things he already knows are being done are bad enough.
One of the biggest problems I have with this is the simple fact that the first use humans usually put new technology to is weapons.
I see no reason to believe nanotech will be any different. The horrible possibilities are legion. Then there's the gene splicing tech that multiplies the horror exponentially.
Tom

Sounds like transhumanism. I have to agree with you.