Stephen Green’s legendary Right Angle Lightning Round, goes boldly where angels fear to tread. Topics this time include…
- Waukesha hospital struggles to care for parade massacre victims, in part due to COVID-19 vaccine mandate that sparks staffing shortages.
- Politico thinks President Joe Biden has spend most of the year reaching across the aisle.
- Kyle Rittenhouse leaves Arizona State University after a Students for Socialism protest demands his ouster.
- First living man-made robots (called xenobots) reproduce “babies” using their Pac-Man like mouths.
- Plus, a bonus update from the Comey family chronicles.
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28 replies on “It’s ALIVE! and Making Babies! Man-Made Xenobots Reproduce with Their Pac-Man Mouths”
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist:
XL = 40
XI = 11
OR: LI = 51.. [is LI one of those lost Greek alphabet letters?]
But XLXI is worth 18 in Scrabble points, so there’s that..
Of course it’s Comey’s daughter, when you only have 350 million people to chose from it’s hard to find someone not connected to the swamp.
And the judge is an Obama appointee who was promoted to the circuit ONE WEEK BEFORE THE TRIAL.
Lots of cautionary tales about artificial life, including the Star Trek episode, “Miri”.
I think the real miracle of Normandy was that we did the same thing, a week later, on the other side of the planet, out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Well to be fair, wrt gain of function research (and by the way I agree it’s not a good idea) people, scientists, even, said “no, we don’t think this should be done” and they said it loudly and it got banned in many places. But SOME disagreed and thought that it should be done regardless — that the reward outweighed the risks. And they went to a country where it wasn’t banned. And to top it off, some in countries where it WAS banned (*cough* United States *cough*), some people Kyoto’d* the issue by … not doing the research itself, per se, but funding it in the country where it wasn’t banned.
*Many countries following the Kyoto accords essentially exported their pollution by paying other countries who had no such restrictions to pollute for them – and importing that energy. It was essentially correct to call it a wealth-redistribution scheme. Though one should wonder who, exactly, made the money off those foreign carbon energy plants.
in minute 13 bill nails it all….handling issues in a serious manner. i refer you back to their first topic. why has the medical field dovetailed into being unable to cope (the military calls that adapt and improvise or at least they used to) with new challenges? it’s right in front of our faces and no one seems to be able to understand or acknowledge what the problem is.
He can woke across the aisle?
Some of the good news out of Waukesha (and I’m quite sad that two items on the list of 5 are from or relate to my area of the world) is that hospital workers at the parade did rush to the hospital, either on their own or with victims. Others in the area that heard about the event also rushed to the hospital where they worked without being called in.
I think the oft quoted line of Malcolm’s “you were so busy wondering if you could, you never stopped to ask if you should” (and I know I got the wording wrong) was written by Chriton in his book, and not just made up for the movie. I don’t remember some of the other forward thinking ideas Michael Chriton had right now, but he was a remarkably prescient guy.
Had an eye exam at the local VA hospital in September. Told me I was blind in one eye, needed surgery, can’t get you in until February next year due to “staffing issues.” The Federal worker mandates. Same seating restrictions, Have seen people who can walk just fine looking for wheel chairs just so they can sit.
Why is it everything seems to go reasonably smoothly up to the point when a democrat politician says, “I can help that/fix that/make that work better?”
It’s not “creating” life, it’s taking an existing virus that effects bats, mutating it to effect humans.
Fauci says he’s Mr. Science. But I thought Bill Nye was the Science Guy!
I’m sorry Bill but bastardizing life isn’t creating it. It’s just altering it.
In some cases that’s OK. We have altered wolves to become modern dogs, and I love my new puppy. We’ve altered wild boss taurus and boss indicus into around 100 breeds of useful cattle and I love my milk and steak. It’s hard to beat a good hamburger.
A pack of wild dogs or a herd of escaped cows will reproduce all on its own just fine too.
Altering life to suit human purposes is nothing new.
Altering it on this scale is what’s new.
If done carefully and properly it would be wonderful if a person could be given a dose of “xenobots” that would specifically devour cancer cells and then turn themselves off and be eliminated from the body by the usual means.
That’s a best case scenario.
If you want to see a worst case scenario watch the latest James Bond film. Which I have to admit was pretty good and not the pile of woke garbage I was expecting.
The Leftist Democrat idea of handling this COVID business is the equivalent of frightening children off a playground onto a busy highway. Some of the kids will make it across the onrushing traffic, some won’t. But every single one of them will be afraid and no longer cluttering up a perfectly good playground.
Oh, that’s a good analogy👏
Frankly, it’s a miracle that we are even in the position that we would expect a local/regional children’s hospital to just be able to, all out of the blue, handle mass casualties. Hospitals are stupid expensive to run. There are only so many ICU beds, OR suites, and trauma surgeons, anyway. Employees have to be paid BETWEEN episodes of high demand. Adding CoVid-19 vaccination status is icing on the cake for administrators.
This reminds me of when the health insurance industry was in nascent form. Baylor Hospital couldn’t economically stay open between waves of infectious diseases (1930s?) and made a model where the teacher’s in this area of Texas were convinced to contribute regular money to the hospital so it could stay open when they eventually were needed. This is what morphed into Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance.
Our health care is past FUBAR compared to the heyday of coverage/care/quality back in the 1980s, when money was still being made enough to pay for the uninsured from profits.
If I’m afraid of a xenobot, does that make me xenophobic? 😉
Yep. But don’t fret. Phobias have become a cult market, so you may be able to cash-in.
Regarding the new life, wouldn’t Antifa members be ideal for this research? They look like the types with a lot of experience with exclusively reproducing with themselves
Scott, you’re under the assumption that The Radical Left seeks to persuade – one needs facts and reality on your side to do so. Hence, bullying, and threatening as the only means at their disposal to get us Normals to follow their wishes
If they used stem cells, they did not, in any way, create life from scratch. Stem cells were already alive, in that in a nutritious environment, they reproduce. They tweaked them to do something not observed in nature. Mankind does that a lot. Is it a step forward? Yes. Can it be used for both good and evil? Yes. They made something alive to make something else alive. Lets see them start with atoms on the periodic table and make something alive. Even then,they are not God. Not until they can create the atoms ex nihilo – out of nothing but will. Lets hope they do not think they are God. That will not end well.
There’s an old joke that goes …
Scientists had finally gotten to the point where they could “create” life out of nothing more than dirt. They thought this made them godlike. So they challenged God to a contest.
God accepted. He said “Ok, let’s see what you’ve got.”
The head scientist strode forward confidently. Standing before the Almighty with his equipment he stooped down to scoop up a handful of dirt …
God said “Uh uh, not so fast. Get your own dirt.”
Heard it before, but still like it!
I think we can still come up with processes, we’ve just devolved to a very risk-averse society.
Precisely. The process we came up with was stay home. There is always another virus. It seems people have gotten so risk adverse that any risk above 0 is intolerable to them. It’s almost like the majority of people now get their statistical analysis from dumb and dumber. So there’s still a chance!
With any luck those kinds of people who can’t face any risk above zero will eventually learn that the very act of living is a risk. Which we can hope is another risk they won’t accept and thereby rid us of all the dead wood sapping the tree of humanity.
I don’t believe scientists created any new life form. Looks more like Franken-bots made using embryonic frog stem cells.
And nature finds a way, right? This is one of those tread lightly moments for these particular scientists. I hope they don’t get horribly myopic.