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Tell me - could you resist a tomato with capsicum genes built in? I call it "The Salsato" - salsa vine ripened and freshly picked.
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I'm making pizza today. Would be awesome on it, no?
If it can prove its value, it will sell, simple as that. Until that moment, I'd prefer for the world to not switch en masse.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Science is a tool, any tool can be used both for good or for bad.
The study of viruses is the base for genetic manipulation. Like it or not.
The use of manipulated viruses will probably be a (if not the) solution to cancer treatment.
Using viruses as weapons has been pondered, but it's quite stupid, because it hit's friends as well as foes, and it can't be controlled.
That is exactly the reason anthrax has been developed for use as a biological weapon. It can be treated with antibiotics, and it is not contagious between humans.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Science is a tool, any tool can be used both for good or for bad.
Already proven many times in history
Jörgen Andersson wrote:
The study of viruses is the base for genetic manipulation. Like it or not.
The use of manipulated viruses will probably be a (if not the) solution to cancer treatment.
I know, and I already said, that I am conscious about the potential good it can do.
Jörgen Andersson wrote: Using viruses as weapons has been pondered, but it's quite stupid, because it hit's friends as well as foes, and it can't be controlled.
You know what Einstein postulated, don't you?
My only problem is that because of the money, power, fame, ego food, getting into the history books... whatever reason that moves such studies. There is hurry to be the first (kind of logical), and that's exactly my worry. We might think we have everything under control and that we are the most intelligent and can do whatever we want, but fact is... there is always a way to screw it up, and some of them are not that good secured / hidden.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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You kind of described a large part of the IT-industry here: Move fast and break things. 
Then again, Always keep Hanlon's razor in mind
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Then again, Always keep Hanlon's razor in mind
That's the point... exactly because of that.
We can think those kind of labs are that super secure, but then a day someone don't pay attention in a repetitive task, because didn't sleep well, felt a bit sick but "I am fine, thanks", drunk a bit during lunch because there was something to celebrate...
When one is always in contact with danger, routine is a bad companion. And what it doesn't happen in many years, can happen in a second.
M.D.V.
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If it was released by Xi and the CCP can we call it “Winnie the Flu”?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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A Chinese research paper written by Chinese scientists in China, attempting to determine the source concluded the virus originated in a "Horseshoe Bat". The closest known colony to Wuhan is 800 miles away. The researchers could not locate anyone familiar with the Wuhan "wet market" who had seen "Horseshoe Bat" for sale.
There are TWO virology labs in Wuhan and they were studying those bats. The researchers concluded the virus most likely escaped from one of the two labs (it would not be the first time).
They are not saying that this was a) intentional or b) some kind of escaped bio-weapon, the suggestion is that the virus may have made its way to the market from someone who had initially been exposed to blood and tissue of the bats in one of those labs.
The Chinese scientists recommended those labs and others in China located in major population centers be moved to less populated areas as well as more stringent protocols put in place.
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jlongo wrote: They are not saying that this was a) intentional or b) some kind of escaped bio-weapon,
I didn't said anything about intentional.
jlongo wrote: the suggestion is that the virus may have made its way to the market from someone who had initially been exposed to blood and tissue of the bats in one of those labs.
That's exactly my point. There is no 100% security no matter how much we think we have something under control, and all in all, these corona virus is still on the "low" area. There probably are worst things in such labs.
M.D.V.
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Is it common that newly coated roads are totally wavy and not even resemble what you may call flat surface?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Only in third world countries ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I didn't realized we are so advanced already 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Here in the First World, we lay 'em flat, then sit back and watch 'em go wavy with potholes, lumps, channels, dips, ... 
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in Italy, they lay 'em flat, then sit back and watch the utility companies dig 'em up again.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Now, you are exactly right.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Only in third world countries ... 
Like Denver. It seems that all new pavement in Denver is like driving on a dirt road.
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I think that's deliberate: everyone's driving a SUV now, so why take away the fun of driving offroad? 
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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In NL, half or more of the roads are block-paved, and are as bumpy as Hell before the first car even drives on them.
I've worked on site with block pavers in the UK, where you could walk on their work blindfolded with no shoes or socks, and not even know it was block paving.
The Dutch block pavers don't even whack silver sand after the blocks are laid, to lock them; they just throw shovelsful of coarse building sand over the road surface, and leave it there for the cars to pick up and carry away in their tyres.
As a cyclist who does a minimum of 30km a day, I'll be sending a very stern letter if I develop serious back or joint problems.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I'll be sending a very stern letter if I develop serious back or joint problems.
I'm also reaching that age.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: I'm also reaching that age.
It's time to find someone to blame, then.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The age of stern letter-writing?
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Sorry about your back, then.
My back's been getting worse, but I primarily blame both my mattress, and my office chair. Need to get both replaced ASAP. Yet I find myself putting it off...
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I had a bad back for fifteen years.
A change of car brand and a new mattress fixed it.
So get that ASAP done, for your own sake.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: A change of car brand
Who made such bad car seats? Name and shame, please...
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