Wow...that would be cool...

Problem is, mother nature has a way of balancing things out.

So even if they were successful, I'd would be wonderin' about the side effects...

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The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all change to silver glass...and then you see it...
...white shores...and beyond...the far green country under a swift sunrise."

It's amazing to think about how far our understanding of the world has evolved through science. Little by little we are begining to understand phenomena that that were once mystical and unknown.



The technology to genetically modify and create new organisms has already been develped, so Venter hasn't really come up with anything new--as the article preassumes. There are hundreds of different modified bacterial strains, each with different phenotipic attributes. Most of these strains are used in research (i.e. grow lots of bacteria of a certain strain and tinker around with their cellular machinery). The neat thing about these modified strains is that they have safeguards (also created by genetic modification) that prevent them from incorporating into the natural environment and causing us harm.

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