Add in, that they do expect their "star" shall produce 100 times more energy than they put into it: they say they put in 1000 times more power than all the electricity used in the USA during the same time. Or by their quote: they must contain an energy equivalent of : 500 million 100 watt light bulbs in their machine. 50,000,000,000 (50 billion) watts, unleashed, in a very tiny area.
DRESS REHEARSAL is over/ nothing left to do, "but create fusion or a black hole/ or a megaton explosion in San Francisco".
C. Crucifying our world: Page 1. "Is the first microbe that thrives and self-replicates with only a synthetic genome to guide it....forming an artificial chromosome 1 million characters long. ...motivating force is commercial....could be worth more than one trillion dollars....proof of concept that we can make....changes across the entire genome of an organism....add entirely new functions....create a new range of industrial organisms....produced short strands ....strands reassembled....spliced in. The crucial step...synthetic genome and transferred it into another kind of common bug. As this bug multiplied, some of its progeny ditched their own DNA and began using the synthetic genome. THEN the transformation began. "Its pretty stunning when you just replace the DNA software in the cell. The cell instantly starts reading that new software, starts making a whole different set of proteins, and in short while, all the characteristics of the first species disappear and a new species emerges".
applications of this enabling technology are enormous....weaponised microbes...make the most powerful bioweapons imaginable....limited mostly by our imaginations... unless it is deliberately injected or sprayed into a goat...
Page 2. They're building life.....dubbed genetic engineering on steroids" - is inspired by the convergence of nano-scale biology...mail order synthetic DNA. "Just about anyone has the potential to construct genes or entire genomes from scratch, including those of lethal pathogens..... scientists predict that within 2-5 years it will be possible to synthesise any virus.....backed by government funding and venture capital. They aim to commercialize new biological parts, devices, and systems that don't exist in the natural world. some of which are designed for environmental release.... concentrated in the hands of major multinational firms....biological samples, sequenced and stored in digital form, will move instantaneously across the globe and be resurrected in corporate labs thousands of miles away.....tools for synthesising genes and genomes are widely accessible and advancing at break-neck pace....there must be an immediate ban on environmental release of de novo synthetic organisms until wide societal debate and strong governance are in place.....new technologies that will challenge human society and food sovereignty...
Page 3. ...successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs....for years scientists have added human genes to bacteria and farm animals....artificial life refers to the synthesis and simulation ...and also to possible life forms and concepts that man not have occurred ....not only in life "as we know it", but also "life as it might be"....US biotech company announced they have first cloned human embryos.... all embryos died early.... federal policy regarding stem cell research, human cloning, and biotechnology.
"Building an evolvable physical self-replicating machine is a grand challenge. The main problem is that the device must be capable of hereditary variation, that is replicating in many configurations-configurations into which it enters unpredictably by mutation. Template replication is the solution found by nature........replication must be maintained by preventing side reactions such as spontaneous ligation, cyclization, product inhibition, and elongation of staggered ends. The last of these three results in every lengthening sequences in a process known as the elongation catastrophe. The extreme specificity of structure required by the monomers is indirect evidence of some kind of natural ......prior to existence.....life.
FROM ME IN OPPOSITION: as is the reality of the last paragraph made above: biology is NOT a simple mix of chemicals in a pot, stirred. Mutilations cannot be undone. Pandemic's cannot be reversed. Biological weapons can kill 97% already, of humanity. Evolution is nothing more than another religion: very little more than "I went shopping for what I wanted a body to be/ I chose/ I built myself, over billions of years"; without a mind. How is that not a religion? Rather you cannot have a body of any life; without all the parts, pieces, processes, reproduction, utilities, etc: that you must have/ that you need from the beginning to survive. An entire body without lungs/ a heart without blood or vessels/ mussels without bones or joints or hands/ everything else but no mind? WHAT, DON'T YOU NEED, for life to survive? How then did evolution build you one tiny piece at a time? It is insane.
A tiny few More tragedies, from a long list in evidence