From: Chris Hind (bholat@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Aug 30 1996 - 02:22:52 MDT
The only use I can see of them is making clones of
>ourselves with no brains, intended as organ donors.
This would be another good use of them.
>> This then brings up the two contravercial topics of whether we should toy
>> with DNA.
>Doesn't this depend more on what we use it for than the act itself? I
>know some people regard the genome as sacrosanct, but I doubt many on
>this list does.
I myself believe that we should toy and manipulate DNA as much as we wish. I
was only referring to the luddites against genetic manipulation.
Another use for these biological drones could be for venturing onto other
planets supporting life. We could take native biological life on another
planet and create a drone so that we could be uploaded to a box in the
drones head and control it through an interface between bio motor functions
and the box.
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