Make two batches and freeze one. Then this time can be the special occasion and the other can be a nice time.
Got this from someone on Facebook.
2016 = 666 + 666 + 666 + 6 + 6 + 6
So far I havenât heard any notorious talking heads mentioning this.
Britain just legalised gene therapy for fertilised eggs.
The scientist from Oxford [on the radio] sounded really pleased that her research into curing inheritable diseases had a chance of actually going on to cure inheritable diseases.
The idiot that the BBC had pulled from a âI hate everything science has done since colour televisionâ club then went on to complain loudly that obviously this was just a method of allowing wealthy parents to create âdesigner babiesâ that grew up according to their parents whims.
I feel so sorry for the poor scientist who had to boil down âthatâs not how it works, you complete and utter dipshit! Do you even understand the billions of bits of data youâd have to change in order to make someone blonde as opposed to the tiny snippets of data youâd have to change to render a disease harmless? What weâre suggesting is changing some letters in a book, not changing the paper itâs printed on!â into a more radio-worthy retort: âDonât be silly, that would be unethical.â
Oh gods, donât give them any ideas, the idiots will start insisting that itâs a freedom-of-press issue.
I do worry about editing out some diseases. Does X happen because of Y we donât know anything about? There are some genetic diseases that appear to be related to good things, if you eliminate the one do you eliminate the other?
Not saying we shouldnât cure these things if we can, but I have read too much science fiction where we end up with a homogeneous uncreative population because we eliminated something in the gene pool. Or stories where we eliminate harmful insects and collapse the entire environment. But the damage isnât seen until well after you canât go back.
Are the people willing to do this willing to follow these families for a couple generations? This is stuff that could have ramifications that donât show up right away. Are we changing letters in the first chapter of a book not realizing we just spelled masjhtrentjksdfnas at the end of the book when itâs supposed to say Einstein?
At a certain level, couldnât this be said of medications (which can and do have side effects) and perhaps surgical procedures?
Not on a genetic level though. Iâm assuming the genetic adjustments are passed on, which Iâm not sure that they would be.
If someone has measles and you cure it, it doesnât affect their kids, except in the sense that they now live to have them. If someone has Downâs, and you eliminate the genetic defect, does that edited gene pass on or does it ârevertâ in the next generation? There may be assumptions scientists are making, and Iâm sure theyâve fiddled with flatworms and mice, but weâre a bit more complicated in some ways.
If the genes are edited, especially at the in vitro stage, then yes, the altered fixed genes are passed on to offspring.
Yes, there are some very good concerns. But I personally look forward to a day where horrible diseases like Wilsonâs disease, juvenile diabetes, ets. are a thing of the past.
But Downâs syndrome can not be âcuredâ by this method. This method is about changing a few tiny gene sequences. Editing out Downâs syndrome would require the removal of an entire chromosome.
It was the first genetic disease I could think of.
Changing jobs has really messed with my insurance. I think I had 3 policies at one point. Now Iâm down to 2, and should be able to trim that to 1.
Hereâs a company name: McGuffin, Inc. âWe put the device in plot deviceâ
In honor of Safer Internet Day 2016, Google is giving away 2 GB of Google Drive to anyone who checks their Google Security settings. Just check the settings, thatâs all you have to do.
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Well, this is pretty cool. Congratulations, San Deigo-ers.
http://www.cw6sandiego.com/video/lost-sunken-ship-reappears-80-years-later-off-coronado/
So, Iâm confused. The story indicates it sat ashore indefinitely after it crashed, but the story is saying it âreappearedâ after 80 years. So which is it? Either itâs been there since it crashed or it drifted out to sea and then drifted back to shore?
It was buried under sand for all that time. With the massive beach erosion that El Nino has been wreaking on the west coast the ship was uncovered and âappearedâ again.
It also âreappearedâ four years ago, according to an old article I found.
So, yeah, a bit of hype from the newspapers, combined with some ignorance of local history from the residents.
Iâm going to be teaching subnet masking tomorrow. Wish me luck.
Donât forget to wave your hat, @Nabiki.
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Oh, Iâm also teaching IPv4 and IPv6 tomorrow as well. This chapter will probably continue into Thursday, which means I will have to cover two chapters on a day next week.
We learned about IPv6 back in the late 90s. When is actually going to be implemented?