[SypheDMar]

Please do GMO work on Cavendish bananas and make me happy for decades to come.

[Nuke]

just be glad your not all eating soylent green.

frankly i like my people in steak form.

[Mikes]

Occupy Food

All your food belong to me!

[yuezhi]

try me!

OM NOM NOM

[watsisname]

MP, excellent posts.   In my younger years I was considering going into genetics, it's such a fascinating subject. 

What kinds of things do you think we'll be seeing out of genetic engineering in the next 10 or 20 years?

[SpardaSon21]

* SpardaSon21 doesn't want Japan to do any major breakthroughs in human genetics.

The catgirls would be fine (and adorable as long as they didn't have Uncanny Valley anime faces) but then the Japanese would inevitably end up creating someone or something with tentacle genitalia and that's just going too far.

[MP-Ryan]

MP, excellent posts.   In my younger years I was considering going into genetics, it's such a fascinating subject. 

What kinds of things do you think we'll be seeing out of genetic engineering in the next 10 or 20 years?

It's nigh-impossible to predict advances in biotechnology.  I'm hoping we see risk-free gene therapy in that time period, but I really do not know.

[NGTM-1R]

The catgirls would be fine (and adorable as long as they didn't have Uncanny Valley anime faces) but then the Japanese would inevitably end up creating someone or something with tentacle genitalia and that's just going too far.

Don't give them, or Alessia, ideas.

[MP-Ryan]

After reading more of that original website Alex posted, and following links to a highly-quoted source, one "dr." Natasha somethingorother, and reading how Dr. Natasha proposes to treat/cure autism (among many other diseases/syndromes/medical conditions) by treating gut bacteria to resolve a syndrome she calls Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS)...

...I have decided I am going to genetically-modify bovines (bulls and cows) to eat people who believe all of this bull**** and can't be bothered to learn about actual science versus bull****.  Because it'll be ironic if said people who believe bull**** end up as a constituent component of it.  Y'know, because science is evil and therefore I can do this.

BRB, evil genius at work.  Don't mind the cows milling through the cities, I don't imagine more than a handful of people who read HLP are in any danger from my GMO cows.

[achtung]

Science has advanced to the point where many people see it as magic, and now they can't differentiate between the two. People buying into ****ty hollywood representations of the "mad scientist" hasn't helped either. So now comes the time when major advances in medicine and food production will be held back, because people aren't willing to learn about things they don't understand, and won't trust that crazy scientist who said it works.

[Lorric]

Science has advanced to the point where many people see it as magic, and now they can't differentiate between the two. People buying into ****ty hollywood representations of the "mad scientist" hasn't helped either. So now comes the time when major advances in medicine and food production will be held back, because people aren't willing to learn about things they don't understand, and won't trust that crazy scientist who said it works.

Society is perverted in the people who receive adulation and attention. Just imagine if scientists and inventors and educators and life savers were the celebrities. And that was where all the big money was channeled, along with the mob's attention so they'd learn something.

[Bobboau]

they would be harder to control.

[redsniper]

... major advances in medicine and food production will be held back, because people aren't willing to learn about things they don't understand, and won't trust that crazy scientist who said it works.

they would be harder to control.

This and this. The powers that be only provide enough of an education so that people can be good workers. They want enough genuinely smart and knowledgeable people around that we can maintain a technological edge, but not enough to actually affect things politically (or effect for that matter). So yeah, part of it is people just not being willing to learn stuff, but another part of it is people being encouraged to not learn stuff. I mean come on, you don't want to be some kind of NERD do you?

On the other hand, the internet is turning out to be a much bigger deal than I think most people expected it to be. Information can be spread and grassroots movements organized like never before, and now the ruling class are absolutely ****ting themselves after seeing stuff like Arab Spring.

[Scotty]

That, and science in general and scientists aren't really the kind of things that are entertaining enough that you forget how ****ty the rest of your life is.

[redsniper]

I think Bill Nye would like a word with you.

[Lorric]

Oh come on. I understand WHY it is as it is. It just pisses me off sometimes. Like if I have something that makes my life a lot easier and I don't even know the person's name who did that for me. Then you see some talentless bimbo who's raking in the millions just because she was born with a pleasant voice and a pair of large tits and that's literally all she has going for her.

I'll also clarify I have no problem with sports stars because of the effort and dedication you have to put in to be at the top and it also comes with many transferable skills.

As for nerds, I wish instead of the word "nerd" we had a word for making fun of stupid people instead that was looked down on as much as the word "nerd" is.

[Lorric]

I think Bill Nye would like a word with you.

Never heard of this guy. I might check him out.

[watsisname]

The concept of making fun of people who enjoy learning things always struck me as very strange.

[Lorric]

The concept of making fun of people who enjoy learning things always struck me as very strange.

I can only put it down to insecurity and jealousy. I wouldn't know since intelligence is a quality I admire. Though I'm sure that was obvious by now.

[Nuke]

I think Bill Nye would like a word with you.

Never heard of this guy. I might check him out.

a wannabe mr wizzard in my book.
yes, im that old.