Sunday, August 21, 2016

We're Needing Some Controversy

That won't come from politics because there's hardly anything interesting enough to be worthy of comment and I'm already highly sure the regulars share that thinking.

Unless there's something on which you disagree, it doesn't blow your skirts in the air and we all know Suzee Rottenkratch wants everyone to see her pretty pink panties.

(Ed:  stolen from movies?)

Yah, wtf, the first part was the only thing Charlton Heston did which was worth stealing and I'm sure you know the latter is from the most bad ass Marine drill sergeant who ever lived.


There are the military catastrophes around the world but there's no controversy in those either because they're all catastrophes.  One sovereign nation after the other is reduced to rubble and they continue like Harry Harrison's Berserkers to destroy another one.  There's not much of interest in that either and it's not likely to change because you saw the New Great Liberal never lifted a finger and, in fact, exacerbated and expanded the problem.

It all comes from a bunch of limpdick posers toting a whole load of nuclear weapons without the faintest idea of what to do with them except sit about rationalizing reasons it's ok to destroy humanity.

Maybe you have some issue with that one but I don't know what it might be.


We have another with the biological equivalent of Ice-9 recently created by the researchers at Harvard Medical School.  The new bacterium started as E. coli but they gutted the genetics and inserted their own making it invulnerable to any virus.  It's not even that vulnerable to bacterial predation because E. coli is exceptionally good at hiding.  (Phys.Org:  E. coli survives predatory bacteria by playing hide and seek)

On an open field, E. coli is screwed and will be consumed quickly by other bacteria which move significantly faster.  However, if it has the opportunity to hide then it's not likely to be a victim.

Here's the second citation I found regarding the new bacterium and the first was in Science Daily which I posted some days ago.  (Mother Nature Network:   Scientists have created an entirely new form of life in the lab)


Unknown if that's the actual bacterium but it's E. coli and they all look the same anyway.  It doesn't add much credibility to their pitch of gutting the genetics as it still knows how to make the cytoplasm, flagella, etc.

Here are some much earlier citations

Science Daily:  E. coli: The ideal transport vehicle for next-gen vaccines?  (July 1)
Science (AAAS): Biologists are close to reinventing the genetic code of life (August 18)

There was another some days ago but the point is clear already.  These aren't Alex Jones resources but rather the real thing.



The premise in creating this thing is it presents an extraordinary delivery system for medicine within the human body and that's likely true.  It's also easily conceivable it can be used as the base for making the most virulent biological weapon the world has ever seen.

This type of thing is precisely why I have demanded an ethical review board because this is way, way out into areas most don't understand and don't really want to know.  As before, I'm not interested in Bible thumping but I am interested in the perspective from serious theologians.  I don't recall the branch of Catholicism typically regarded as the intelligentsia but get a couple of those guys.  This needs some serious ethical consideration and there's little evidence that happens now.  In fact, there's really not much evidence of that anywhere.



Moreover on that same theme, who is the bad guy when Einstein worked out the pure physics and applied physicists used it to create a bomb.  Who's the bad guy, Einstein or I am Death, Destroyer of Worlds; both, neither?  (The name which kept coming to mind was Ethel Rosenberg and that may yield some dark irony)

There's no real answer to it and where does it go anyway when all these years later they have no idea what to do with those bombs so they just sit about waiting for a nuke accident.  That's another area in which there isn't the faintest bother with ethical considerations.


Maybe you can draw some controversy out of that but I don't see a whole lot.

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