SCIENTISTS PLAY GOD, CREATE LIFE, IT'S COOL!

Haha, OK, well, it's cool for now, but once those new artificial lifeforms start demanding rights--well, I'm getting ahead of myself. Turns out scientists have created a new lifeform by transplanting the DNA from one lifeform and jamming it into another. Once the new DNA takes, that second lifeform literally becomes the first.

This is basically like Michael Bay claiming he did something good by ripping off an old premise and characters and jamming them in a movie called Transformers. Too bad, the scientists, like Bay, fail to admit what a rip-off both acts are. :) The good news, is that, unlike Bay, the scientists are interested in creating 100% new life now. I'll let a cutting from [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=4SHVMBW02V3FNQFIQMGSFF4AVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/06/28/nlife128.xml|A July 2, 200 article] at http://telegraph.co.uk explain:

In a development that has triggered unease and excitement in equal measure, scientists in the US took the whole genetic makeup - or genome - of a bacterial cell and transplanted it into a closely related species.

This then began to grow and multiply in the lab, turning into the first species in the process.

The team that carried out the first "species transplant" says it plans within months to do the same thing with a synthetic genome made from scratch in the laboratory.

If that experiment worked, it would mark the creation of a synthetic lifeform.

Of course, the joke is ultimately on the scientists as we've already created an artificial form of life.

Paris Hilton!

(Her "life" sure isn't real!)

THANK YOU, I'LL BE HERE ALL YEAR! PLEASE TIP YOUR WEBMASTER!

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