Dude bro, you have no idea how shit-tastic 2019 is going to be.
The 50-page radio address by John Galt alone would do them in.
I dunno, he looks fine to me…
Let’s just pray that Bible sequences aren’t inadvertently oncogenic.
Locatelli called his effort a “symbol of peace between religions and science.”
So, Art?
Art that might give you cancer. But, still Art.
Given all the examples in history of religion-based malignancies, I’m not optimistic.
I dunno; in the Dark Tower, the number ‘19’ is a mixture of both good and bad.
[dies from internal crusade]
I guess he’ll qualify.
Except, I understand it, that inactive information is inactive for a reason. If you randomly overwrite an inactive area with a sequences that happens to code for the terminating marker of the inactive area (the intron), everything after that is going to now be active.
Is he trying to become Bibleman?
Suddenly my writing the first verse of the Bhagavad Gita on a piece of melba toast before eating it seems a lot less newsworthy. Thanks for nothing, Locatelli.
I’m not quite sure that this is how ‘the word made flesh’ works. At least until he manages to get the added DNA to encode some proteins, or similarly fleshy sorts of molecules.
I read a science fiction story years ago – maybe 15? – about something like this. The setting was Australia, and Muslims were voluntarily having the Koran translated into DNA and permanently added as a (non-functioning) chromosome. They would be able to pass on the Koran with every generation. The big problem? The government could easily track who was Muslim and who wasn’t…
Stupidity, the most common preexisting condition.
Please don’t give the Australian government any ideas…
Did he read Snow Crash and think it was guide to better living?
CRISPR meets snake-handlers