Monolithic0117
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Banning Thor because I dislike Christmas hats (or Santa hats, if you prefer).
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What makes it non realistic?
Did you read Vagrant's post at all? Birds have specialized bodies, designed for flight. These bodies developed over thousands upon thousands of years. If you've picked up a bird before, you may notice that it weighs very little. Unlike us. Our bodies are not designed for flight, and never will be.
Not to mention the countless social and ethical complications that would arise even if it were possible. How would we go about testing this?
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I'd have to say yes, although at this point only to rectify malignant traits, wholly detrimental to the individual in question - gene therapy.
Definitely no on enhanced genetic engineering embryos, as this defiles the rights of the fetus.
I have a mixed view on enhanced somatic genetic engineering - people should have the right to attend potential targets such as vulnerability to diseases, and in time, the capability to modify one's own physical appearance.
Germline engineering would result in the same changes being made in all further generations of the original recipient. However, it seems that gene therapy of this type would present quite a danger.
However, advanced genetic engineering of those kinds, as well as applications such as extending life expectancy and increasing brain stamina, are just not possible and at this point, and will not be, for the foreseeable future.
But when the time arises, the complications that could arise from modifications to such integral parts of our body functions would be unpredictable and possibly quite dangerous.
Not to mention the unethical and hazardous human experimentation that would be a byproduct of performing such tests.
The current experimentation on animals is also rather unethical, in my opinion.
However, I feel that in time, genetic engineering will become more prominent. It holds very promising potential, and research and progression on the subject should continue. As technology progresses, perhaps genetic engineering will become commonplace - people would turn to gene therapy for a variety of purposes; examples of applications: curing muscle atrophy from prolonged periods in space, or treating a person with diabetes.
I also find Lee Silver's two books on biotechnology (especially Remaking Eden) very enlightening and interesting on this subject. Mr. Silver's predictions on the effects of genetic engineering on future society is particularly intriguing.
I would highly recommend anyone interested in the subject and looking for further information to read these books.
Genetic engineering in science fiction (especially biopunk) is also quite interesting. The Sprawl Trilogy, Jurassic Park, and BioShock are all examples of fiction in which genetic engineering hold a large place in.
In total, I wholly agree with the prospect of pursuing genetic engineering. Although it holds certain dangerous elements, the promise is too great to ignore.
Also, to rbrophy: the Maximum Ride series, by James Patterson holds a premise very similar to the one you are suggesting - implanting bird DNA in humans. Although it is not a realistic prospect, still.
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Great.
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France. I've lived in Paris previously for a year, and everything was perfect. The food, drink, scenery, living conditions, accomodations, entertainment, etc.
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Banned - better luck next time, newcomer. The king of the Ban for Fun thread (I, Monolithic) deserved that post.
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Page-ban! 8000th post!!
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Banning rbrohoppy for hating math. Without math, the world as we know it would not exist.
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Banning Pronam because there's only eight (seven, if you count this one) posts left to go.
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Banning floggingmolly for noticing. The sig is a screenshot from BioShock 2.
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Yea laughs at the people complaining its not coming out for the xbox, this game is going to push the ps3 to the limit and size of the Blu ray disks, they say its going to be around 100gb :blink: with all that super high res stuff. Almost real like. Certainly beats anything that pixars puts out lol.
Might get this one just for the icandy alone.
FF always excels at cinematics, but the game itself is not super hi-res. Consoles have a memory limit, you know.
And it will not be even close to 100GB. The actual game takes up a single Blu-ray disk, up to 50GB. It probably won't use compression, like MGS4, so the actual size will be up to 50GB.
A lot of the space is consumed by the CG and audio, as well.
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LOL! All of these were really funny. I didnt get the 0-200 thing though. Helpz pl0x.
For example, when you place a 200g object on a scale.
Anyways, quite amusing. I got a few chuckles out of that.
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Doing something like that is incredibly pointless... its incomprehensible to me why someone would want to stay awake for 96 hours.
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i hear the 360 version may have lots of dvd disks ..... this may put the price up for the xbox360
Three disks, seems like the game will contain a ton of content. Looking forward to playing it.
This topic should be in the "Other Systems" section, by the way.
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Warsaw.
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Banning jaosals for surpassing 1000 posts.
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Read both of them. They were quite good, I especially liked the lore.
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Banning pyrosocial for more banhammer references.... A long time ago, I believe another user (I think it was either PureSnipe, or sniperwhere, though I may be incorrect) and I went over all the banhammers, bansticks, and nerfbats etc. Many many pages ago though, so it's probably a good thing that you brought them up again... *sigh* the memories....
Banning floggingmolly for bringing that up. I believe it was over a hundred pages (maximum posts per page) ago.
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Banning Argomirr because that is unfortunate.
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Page-banning because it's almost the 200th page (in my settings). Super-banning species because I haven't banned her in a while.
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Banning brophy - "because I can" is a valid reason no more.
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Banned because... Uhm... What was the reason again...?
Oh yeah, banned for ban's sake.
Banning jaosals for being irritating. Also banning because I cut my thumb while fixing a door. Holding the mouse is rather awkward.
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Game.
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Banning all who ban for "no apparent reason", are banning in a perpetual state of confusion, and members named "Pronam".
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