Originally posted by Neubob
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It's building human parts
It's undermining god's monopoly on the creation of living tissues
i think you will find that no one ever had a monopoly on creating living tissue. humans have been able to do it since before being able to speak, reproduction itself is the fresh ceation of living tissue. unless you want to try and convince me god is responsible for every birth on the planet.
thats not to mention the body's immune system, which creates new living tissue on an hourly basis.
It amazes me that we have taken this long to even start woking out more about how our bodys work in a chemical and biological sense.
we have spent about the last 4000 years developing incredible ways of destroying the flesh and only now we are breaking into the very basics of creating flesh artificialy.
Another thing we have excelled in is currency and marketing. today there is so much crap to buy and so many 'offer of a life time for those with money' incentives thrown in our faces that we forget what life is really about and we are happy with it. but its just a huge cycle of nothing exchanging hands for nothing in return for a nice set of nothings to soon go with our other nothings in a box in the garage. The top echelons of currency do allow some fantastic experiences for the ones who play the system best but the rest of the world gets stuck with junk and little wealth.
battery companies buying the rights to new forms of battery and burning them, so they can sell a less efficient but more profitable version.
Gillette, the best a man can get! and thats because we purchased the rights to a ceramic razor that would last years, buried them, and continued to sell you crap steel blades that need replacing every other day. HEY geuss what our brand new spanking razor is out, it is called the Gillette Mach 7 it has 13 blades for the
closest shave ever yet. it vibrates to help cut your hair in
one stroke so she will come up to you after you shave and stroke your face for you. it also have a built in nose hair clipper and can send e-mails........
what a time wasting race we have turned out to be. how many more thousand years before we devote all our progress to widespread positives instead of pin points of power pushing so much negative onto so many others.
consider this for a minute...
in five years we managed to progress war from ranks of meatballs charging each other with rifles and boyonets with little to no aerial support to dropping an atomic bomb from an untouchable super bomber.
yet we think that even after this many centuries of existance the slight possibilty of giving people replacement body parts is a breakthrough?
