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Article #493Re: Creating life
From: Ranjan Samuel Muttiah
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1989 16:52
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1989 16:52
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In article <762@uwm.edu> stevelee@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Just Another Steve (but not dave)) writes: >In article <8523@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> muttiah@cs.purdue.edu (Ranjan Samuel Muttiah) writes: >> >>Why bother ? There is enough of it around already. > > Because it's a challenge. It's something that's never been done. > And it's something that will be done (so sayeth I) within the next > two decades. > Wouldn't it be more a challenge to _document_ all the existing life forms ? Let's face it. We only know of 40-50 % of the species that exist let alone document them in detail. What happens to the rest. Do we care ? Are _we_ the environment now ?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!muttiah From: muttiah@cs.purdue.EDU (Ranjan Samuel Muttiah) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Creating life Keywords: Life Message-ID: <8525@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 4 Nov 89 16:52:14 GMT References: <2461@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <8523@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <762@uwm.edu> Reply-To: muttiah@cs.purdue.edu (Ranjan Samuel Muttiah) Distribution: usa Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University Lines: 17