This is a rather concerning turn of events. It would seem that we have entered into the realm (undoubtedly we are much farther along in the development of these things or they would not have divulged their existence so publicly) of biological robotics on the microscopic scale. We have heard, for a relatively long time, of the nanobots that are now even only of mere molecular density or to say, microscopic in size, but still considered mechanical. Now these creatures of man, which are of biological makeup, mimicking frog tissue, for instance, are being made public.
Very curious and sorta creepy at the same time. What could happen if these little buggers (scientists call them xenobots) get out and are trans-morphed by living biological systems?
Back in the 80s, my son told me about how part of his passing of a class in molecular-biology, was to create an organism. I wondered then and since, how this procesess could evolve? I'd imagine that if there were literally thousands of labs in many colleges and schools throughout the world, performing such things, without the aid, inevitably, of full control of their products, that some sort of 'creature', macro or microbiological in form, could one day be unleashed into our biosphere.
If there are articles in main stream news outlets today, then there have to have been many places where this has long been under experimentation and long been in fruition of some rather very spooky results.
Makes one take pause in wonder. I does me. Vox may have had some second thoughts on the results of SciFi theory on society, well, this Science fact is far more scary, IMHO.
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Very curious and sorta creepy at the same time. What could happen if these little buggers (scientists call them xenobots) get out and are trans-morphed by living biological systems?
Back in the 80s, my son told me about how part of his passing of a class in molecular-biology, was to create an organism. I wondered then and since, how this procesess could evolve? I'd imagine that if there were literally thousands of labs in many colleges and schools throughout the world, performing such things, without the aid, inevitably, of full control of their products, that some sort of 'creature', macro or microbiological in form, could one day be unleashed into our biosphere.
If there are articles in main stream news outlets today, then there have to have been many places where this has long been under experimentation and long been in fruition of some rather very spooky results.
Makes one take pause in wonder. I does me. Vox may have had some second thoughts on the results of SciFi theory on society, well, this Science fact is far more scary, IMHO.
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A tiny manufactured quadruped (4-footed) organism. The scientists described this creature (if we can call it a creature) as "a bit smaller than a pinhead." Image via Douglas Blackiston/ Tufts University.
Team builds the 1st living robots
Scientists call them xenobots for the frog species from whose cells these little robots were created. They describe the robots as tiny blobs, submillimeter in size (a millimeter is about 1/25th of an inch). These blobs - the xenobots - contain between 500 and 1,000 cells. They can heal themselves after being cut. The xenobots have been able to scoot across a petri dish, self-organize, and even transport minute payloads. Maybe, eventually, they'll be able to carry a medicine to a specific place inside a human body, scrape plaque from arteries, search out radioactive contamination, or gather plastic pollution in Earth's oceans. And, yes, the scientists do acknowledge possible ethical issues. Read more.
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Art Bell
I don't need a good memory, because I always tell the truth.
Jessie Ventura
Its no wonder truth is stranger than fiction.
Fiction has to make sense
Mark Twain
If history doesn't repeat itself, it sure does rhyme.
Mark Twain
You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
C.S. Lewis
Political Correctness is Fascism pretending to be manners.
George Carlin
“In a time of deceit…truth is a revolutionary act”
George Orwell