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JWST

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Everything going on in biology, but the existence of of Nana and Lulu especially. The first genetically altered humans are starting school pretty soon.

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Say what now?

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Google says the twins plus one other 1 yr younger child child were edited embryos using crispr to prevent them from getting HIV from their father(s). Which was and is unethical. They are supposedly doing fine.

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Damn that’s crazy. On the one hand, that’s really awesome that we can make it so that the kids don’t have HIV. On the other hand, I worry about people using it for really bad things… Thanks for telling me about it.

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Yeah, the dude just kind of went rogue. One of them was fully edited, while the other has a blend of original and altered cells, because surprise surprise China’s maddest scientist did a bad job. If they’re still doing well that’s good, because it wasn’t certain there would be no side effects.

I’m glad they and any kids they have will be around whenever we start discussing doing it properly. And yes, Dr. He Jiankhui went to jail.

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Driverless cars, VR and the recent NASA experiment where four people started living in a simulated Mars environment for an year, even conducting VR space walks - all of this makes me feel we’re living in the movie Total Recall.

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Get your ass to Mars!

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and the recent NASA experiment where four people started living in a simulated Mars environment for an year, even conducting VR space walks - all of this makes me feel we’re living in the movie Total Recall.

Wow, I hadn’t heard about that. I’ve wondered for a while if astronauts could use VR to “escape” a cramped spacecraft.

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Usually total recall reminds people of something else

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mRNA vaccines. You can literally code a vaccine now. That’s just mind blowing to me.

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Especially impressive when you consider the etymology of the word “vaccine” and realize that a century ago vaccines were created by incubating them in a cow

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The idea of me typing a prompt and AI generating a piece of art is incredible.

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