We are so screwed ...

(originally posted somewhere else June 29, 2007)

I just don't even know what to say, besides ... we are so screwed.

Scientists could create the first new form of artificial life within months after a landmark breakthrough in which they turned one bacterium into another.

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The scientists want to create new kinds of bacterium to make new types of bugs which can be used as green fuels to replace oil and coal, digest toxic waste or absorb carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

But this pioneering research also triggers unease about the limits of science and the inevitable fears about "playing god," as well as raising the spectre that this technology could one day be abused to create a new generation of bioweapons.

Bioweapons? Ya THINK? BioACCIDENTS, more like it.

Captain Trips, anyone? Guess a little superflu would take care of the looming energy and food crisis ...