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Post by beatlies on Jun 30, 2012 4:06:23 GMT -5
According to the dallasgoldbug "wellaware1" follies, Kenny Chesney is actually John Stamos with an imposter-makeover.... or would that be a Fohn Ftamos?
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Post by beatlies on Jun 30, 2012 4:12:57 GMT -5
"World's first GM babies born
The world's first geneticallymodified humans have been created, it was revealed last night.
The disclosure that 30 healthy babies were born after a series of experiments in the United States provoked another furious debate about ethics.
So far, two of the babies have been tested and have been found to contain genes from three 'parents'.
Fifteen of the children were born in the past three years as a result of one experimental programme at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of St Barnabas in New Jersey.
The babies were born to women who had problems conceiving. Extra genes from a female donor were inserted into their eggs before they were fertilised in an attempt to enable them to conceive.
Genetic fingerprint tests on two one-year- old children confirm that they have inherited DNA from three adults --two women and one man.
The fact that the children have inherited the extra genes and incorporated them into their 'germline' means that they will, in turn, be able to pass them on to their own offspring.
Altering the human germline - in effect tinkering with the very make-up of our species - is a technique shunned by the vast majority of the world's scientists.
Geneticists fear that one day this method could be used to create new races of humans with extra, desired characteristics such as strength or high intelligence.
Writing in the journal Human Reproduction, the researchers, led by fertility pioneer Professor Jacques Cohen, say that this 'is the first case of human germline genetic modification resulting in normal healthy children'.
Some experts severely criticised the experiments. Lord Winston, of the Hammersmith Hospital in West London, told the BBC yesterday: 'Regarding the treat-ment of the infertile, there is no evidence that this technique is worth doing . . . I am very surprised that it was even carried out at this stage. It would certainly not be allowed in Britain.'
John Smeaton, national director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, said: 'One has tremendous sympathy for couples who suffer infertility problems. But this seems to be a further illustration of the fact that the whole process of in vitro fertilisation as a means of conceiving babies leads to babies being regarded as objects on a production line.
'It is a further and very worrying step down the wrong road for humanity.' Professor Cohen and his colleagues diagnosed that the women were infertile because they had defects in tiny structures in their egg cells, called mitochondria.
They took eggs from donors and, using a fine needle, sucked some of the internal material - containing 'healthy' mitochondria - and injected it into eggs from the women wanting to conceive.
Because mitochondria contain genes, the babies resulting from the treatment have inherited DNA from both women. These genes can now be passed down the germline along the maternal line.
A spokesman for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), which regulates 'assisted reproduction' technology in Britain, said that it would not license the technique here because it involved altering the germline.
Jacques Cohen is regarded as a brilliant but controversial scientist who has pushed the boundaries of assisted reproduction technologies.
He developed a technique which allows infertile men to have their own children, by injecting sperm DNA straight into the egg in the lab.
Prior to this, only infertile women were able to conceive using IVF. Last year, Professor Cohen said that his expertise would allow him to clone children --a prospect treated with horror by the mainstream scientific community.
'It would be an afternoon's work for one of my students,' he said, adding that he had been approached by 'at least three' individuals wishing to create a cloned child, but had turned down their requests." In a way, this is worse than human cloning: these scientists are literally recreating the human species to order, and the children born with this gene-splicing (from two "mothers"!) will presumably have children of their own, passing down this new genetic structure, and on and on creating a new type of homo novo population of beings with unpredictable types of predispositions to mutations, deformities and disorders. Highly unethical medicine, and note that once again the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is in the shameful lead position of the world in this regard.
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Post by artemis on Jul 17, 2012 5:01:32 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Jul 19, 2012 5:16:01 GMT -5
"Russian research project offers 'immortality' to billionaires - by transplanting their brains into robot bodies
A Russian entrepreneur who heads a hi-tech research project called 'Avatar' has contacted billionaires to offer them immortality.
Itskov claims he will personally oversee their immortality process, in exchange for an undisclosed fee.
Itskov, a media entrepreneur, claims to have hired 30 scientists to reach this goal - and aims to transplant a human brain into a robot body within 10 years.
'You have the ability to finance the extension of your own life up to immortality. Our civilization has come very close to the creation of such technologies: it's not a science fiction fantasy. It is in your power to make sure that this goal will be achieved in your lifetime,' says Itskov in a letter delivered to billionaires listed in Forbes magazine.
He has contacted a list of billionaires with a proposal for funding his quest for immortality - which Itskov refers to as 'cybernetic immortality' and the 'artificial body'.
The initiative is opening its San Francisco office this summer, and will be launching a social media project connecting scientists around the world.
'The 2045 team is working towards creating an international research center where leading scientists will be engaged in research and development in the fields of anthropomorphic robotics, living systems modeling and brain and consciousness modeling with the goal of transferring one’s individual consciousness to an artificial carrier and achieving cybernetic immortality,' says Itskov's official site.
'Such research has the potential to free you, as well as the majority of all people on our planet, from disease, old age and even death.'
'For anyone interested, but skeptical, I am ready to prove the viability of the concept of cybernetic immortality by arranging an expert discussion with a team of the world's leading scientist working in this field. 'I will also be willing to coordinate your personal immortality project entirely free of charge for the sake of speeding up the development of these technologies,'
'This project is leading down the road to immortality,' says Itskov. 'A person with a perfect Avatar will be able to remain part of society. People don’t want to die.'
‘I understand these are some very big challenges for scientists,’ Itskov says. ‘But I believe in something you call ‘The American Dream.’ If you put all your energy and time into something, you can make it a reality.
Itskov envisages surgically 'transplanting' a human consciousness into a robot body within 10 years.
He hopes to then 'upload' minds without surgery, leaving human bodies as empty husks as their owners 'live on' inside robots.
The project is called Avatar after the James Cameron movie, set far in the future, where human soldiers use mind control to inhabit the bodies of human alien hybrids as they carry out a war against the inhabitants of a distant world.
'The next effort of science will be to create a new body for the human being,' says Itskov, speaking at the Global Future 2045 conference. 'It will have a perfect brain-machine interface to allow control and a human brain life support system so the brain can survive outside the body.'
Itskov says that the system will at first be of interest to, 'Disabled people and people at the edge of dying.'
'The third phase will be to create an artificial human brain,' he says - a computer environment into which human minds can be uploaded.
His final goal, he says, is to upload human minds into holographic bodies.
Holograms give plenty of advantages. You can walk through walls, move at the speed of light, he says. ‘Remember in Star Wars, Obi-Wan’s hologram? That was pretty amazing.’
Itskov says he wants to work with DARPA - the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency in the U.S military.
DARPA is already researching ways for its troops to use their minds to remotely control androids who will take human soldiers' place on the battlefield.
The Pentagon's hi-tech research arm, has earmarked $7million for research into the project, also nicknamed Avatar.
According to the Darpa's 2013 budget: 'The Avatar program will develop interfaces and algorithms to enable a soldier to effectively partner with a semi-autonomous bi-pedal machine and allow it to act as the soldier’s surrogate.' "
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Post by artemis on Jul 19, 2012 5:17:53 GMT -5
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Post by lucy on Jul 21, 2012 21:55:37 GMT -5
Maybe that's what these so called "reality" shows are, they are supposedly finding these "undiscovered" talents....mechanical celebrities....How sick are we, as a society, getting folks?
Splice eggs from two different women to make a GMO baby....taking brains of billionaires and putting them into robots....this sounds like one long and horrible sci fi movie that doesn't end!
This is sick stuff....the world can only take so much before it falls apart from all of this stench....
Seriously, we are living in very strange times.....it's like the real humans will be outnumbered by clones, robotoids and aliens!!!
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Post by fauxster on Aug 6, 2012 19:02:48 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Aug 7, 2012 2:52:35 GMT -5
LOLZ, trying to see the funny part of it.... How idiot can they be?
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Post by artemis on Aug 9, 2012 14:40:33 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Aug 17, 2012 5:25:23 GMT -5
Perfection.... Will the real GU KAILAI stand up? "Body double claim a part of show trial fear BEIJING: The curious murder trial of Gu Kailai, the wife of the fallen politician Bo Xilai, appears to have achieved the rare feat of uniting Maoists and liberals. Both sides of China's ideological war allege the trial was a badly scripted show trial, riven with procedural and logical irregularities. Doubts run so deep that the phrase ''body double'' was censored on the Chinese internet, after netizens questioned whether the plump lady shown in court on the television news was really the once-glamorous wife of Bo Xilai. ''It's highly likely that an impostor Gu replaced the real Gu; this is all a well-planned scheme,'' said Han Deqiang, co-founder of Utopia, a stridently pro-Bo Xilai website that was unplugged soon after Mr Bo's demise. ''It's a conspiracy against Bo Xilai,'' said Professor Han. ''Now I am more convinced about this.'' The Hefei Intermediate People's Court is widely expected to convict Gu of murder. The indictment said evidence that she poisoned the Englishman Neil Heywood was ''irrefutable''. But the court is expected to avoid giving the death sentence because various mitigating arguments were treated favourably in court. Maoists such as Professor Han are convinced the evidence has been fabricated to frame her for murder in a first step towards destroying her husband. Many liberals, however, believe the case has been twisted to avoid having to execute one of China's leading wives, whose father was a renowned general, and to avoid implicating powerful figures involved in the family's corrupt transactions. The roundly cynical response highlights the Communist Party's challenge of conducting ''show trials'' in a modern age of assertive citizens and relatively open information flows. ''Lies have to be used to cover up lies, leading to an impossible situation where the story doesn't hold together and it becomes a satire of justice,'' wrote He Weifang, professor of law at Peking University, who had been at the forefront of a civil society backlash against Mr Bo's abuse of law in Chongqing. Beyond Gu and Mr Bo, the broadly accepted facts (at least outside the Maoist camp) reveal an astonishing willingness on the part of top Chongqing officials to facilitate a cold, calculated and apparently pointless murder. ''The conduct, completion and attempted cover-up of murder was done directly through the exercise of public power,'' wrote Chen Youxi, a lawyer who is a prominent advocate for rule of law. ''Such behaviour only happened in the age of feudal fiefdoms and vassal states.'' Hu Shuli, the editor of the magazine Caixin, said Gu assumed she would ''enjoy total immunity'' until her husband's former police chief took the remarkable step of giving the story to American diplomats in Chengdu. The case offered ''a starting point to examine recent events that could shape China's history'', she wrote in an editorial. Details of the police chief's likely trial, probably for treason, have been kept so quiet that a Hong Kong television station even reported that it had already happened. Gu's murder conviction could prepare the ground for criminal proceedings against her detained husband, possibly in relation to covering up his wife's part in the murder. But doubts about the integrity of Gu's case will make it more difficult to persuade the public about the misdeeds of her husband, who is loved as much as he is loathed in China. ''The group of capitalist roaders [has] brought down the socialist roader,'' Professor Han said. ''This means crisis and turmoil for China.'' As known by everybody/the media As she recently appeared in court, sparking controversy Other past photos of "GU"
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Post by artemis on Aug 17, 2012 15:09:22 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Aug 17, 2012 16:02:07 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Aug 17, 2012 16:43:37 GMT -5
Such a shame for Lucy Liu. She looks so full of life and vitality in this pic. This must be the original. I have strong reasons to believe this is actually the real LUCY LIU. Among other things, she doesnt have that funky eye, feature that started to appear once as her first clone - photo above - was created.... The original indeed was prettier and friendly looking, in other words human....
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Post by artemis on Aug 18, 2012 16:59:43 GMT -5
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Post by lucy on Aug 20, 2012 9:55:43 GMT -5
Of all of the hair-brained things ever uttered by tongue, or by pen.... Embrace a future of "virgin births"..... Humankind as we once knew it..... where do these bird brains come from? Perhaps she was a byproduct of laboratory virginity....
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