(May 13, 2014 at 8:41 pm)RDK Wrote:(May 12, 2014 at 6:06 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Oh, Mister Agenda, sir, how about A semi-synthetic organism with an expanded genetic alphabet?
Also known as the only being on Earth with a DNA that has 6 instead of 4 "letters"
It's amazing what can be assembled with human intervention, or intelligent design to direct things. There was nothing random about this thing happening. Would this have ever happened if nobody ever made it happen?
Perhaps... Is there anything to gain from it?
Nature tends to make do with the simplest materials... Why carbon based life, instead of Silicon?