‘Living robot’ developed by scientists using frog embryos

[dorsetknob]

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Scientists claim to have created the world’s first living robots using stem cells from frog embryos.
The tiny hybrids are “entirely new life-forms” known as xenobots – named after the African frog used in the research – and are able to move about.

 

[witkazy]

small leap for the frog huge leap for the mankind

 

[Athlonite]

Rise of the frogmen

 

[robot zombie]

Umm... @R-T-B care to weigh in on this? For some reason I thought you might know something... I seem to remember you prattling on about "that day" late last year. I scarcely recall the minutia of our little exchange, but I do specifically remember you mentioning something along the lines of "merging brains with the superior frog race." And also... something about a Planet of the Apes style takeover of the planet earth? Or am I mistaken? Zombie brains and all that, always wanting what we can't have. You must understand. I have to ask.

...can a homie get a heads-up-type sitrep on this potential pending frogacolypse dealeo? Or is it already too late for us to stop the tide of the oncoming xenobots...?

 

[thesmokingman]

Planet of the Apes Frogs?

 

[Mussels]

Finally we can have BATTLETOADS

 

[biffzinker]

Who knew frog xenobots were going to be responsible for the down fall of mankind.

 

[R-T-B]

Hah. They think it was the first. How cute.

 

[trickson]

Next trick?

GOD comes back and wipes us all out! FOR the LOVE of......... Why are they playing GOD?
You know my dad always told me NOT TO TEMPT FATE! WTF do you think THIS IS!
God forgive us we know NOT what we do! Nothing good will come of this NOTHING!

 

[R-T-B]

Next trick?

GOD comes back and wipes us all out! FOR the LOVE of......... Why are they playing GOD?
You know my dad always told me NOT TO TEMPT FATE! WTF do you think THIS IS!
God forgive us we know NOT what we do! Nothing good will come of this NOTHING!

Or something good could come of this. You do indeed know not until you try. Programable cellular biology could be incredibly helpful medically and it is largely unexplored.

Besides, you are all spawn of the great sky toad anyhow. He is always dissapointed in you, it's nothing new.

 

[trickson]

Or something good could come of this. You do indeed know not until you try.

Yeah like jumping off a Bridge right? You wont know if the fall kills you till you jump.

 

[R-T-B]

Yeah like jumping off a Bridge right? You wont know if the fall kills you till you jump.

No, we've tried that one before.

There is nothing that makes this an inherently bad idea. You do realize what happens to most frog embryos in nature, right?

Fish eat them.

Who knew frog xenobots were going to be responsible for the down fall of mankind.

They will save you from yourselves, more like.

 

[trickson]

No, we've tried that one before.

There is nothing that makes this an inherently bad idea. You do realize what happens to most frog embryos in nature, right?

Fish eat them.



They will save you from yourselves, more like.

Well I just think that this could lead to GOD taking a look at us again and we all KNOW what happened then. You do know GOD can and will start over if WE get out of line too much. Just my belief really. I know it's speculating that some invisible thing is "looking over us".
But again why tempt fate?

 

[Vayra86]

Well I just think that this could lead to GOD taking a look at us again and we all KNOW what happened then. You do know GOD can and will start over if WE get out of line too much. Just my belief really. I know it's speculating that some invisible thing is "looking over us".
But again why tempt fate?

Science would like a word with God, but so far religion seems content just adapting all that is holy to the newest scientific consensus. Religion can only follow to avoid looking ridiculous.

Such is the way of progress and it is just a matter of time. Time is the real thing watching over us and responsible for all that we know and live on. It is the greatest entity we know, really. I do believe in time.

 

[Vario]

Cool stuff, DNA based machinery!

 

[trickson]

Time is the essence in witch we burn.

 

[biffzinker]

Time is the essence in witch we burn.

Was there a fluke in the spelling?

witch<which

 

[witkazy]

Was there a fluke in the spelling?

witch<which

Subconcious slip of the tongue mostlikely.
Nothing like good ol' witch burnin in this ghastly weather

Science would like a word with God, but so far religion seems content just adapting all that is holy to the newest scientific consensus. Religion can only follow to avoid looking ridiculous.

Such is the way of progress and it is just a matter of time. Time is the real thing watching over us and responsible for all that we know and live on. It is the greatest entity we know, really. I do believe in time.

Swatch be with You

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

No, we've tried that one before.

There is nothing that makes this an inherently bad idea. You do realize what happens to most frog embryos in nature, right?

Fish eat them.



They will save you from yourselves, more like.

If you wont cry for your children I will

I don't really like the sound of their plan's to be honest, drug delivery and ocean plastic clean up.

So smart these scientists, probably not the ones saying tobaco was ok back in the day though eh.
Or the Muppets who convinced me and others that diesel's are less evil than petrol engines.
Only to then find both do actually kill humans.

I work in a scientific institute too, you would think ten years in I would be fully sold on the scientific method.

Yet to me middle management , deadlines and target's mean real science is on it's ass.

It needs a conclusive win , not a biological win either.

Prove they know what gravity is for a start , solve the three body problem perhaps or truly describe a Field.

All inherently important to astrophysics and biology, all still being worked on too, without an answer.

Solve them then play god with xenimals

 

[Assimilator]

Next trick?

GOD comes back and wipes us all out! FOR the LOVE of......... Why are they playing GOD?
You know my dad always told me NOT TO TEMPT FATE! WTF do you think THIS IS!
God forgive us we know NOT what we do! Nothing good will come of this NOTHING!

If God exists, people like you are his/her greatest disappointment.

Also please note the forum name, it's "Scence and Technology" not "Redneck Religion". The latter is down the road behind the trailer park.

So smart these scientists, probably not the ones saying tobaco was ok back in the day though eh.
Or the Muppets who convinced me and others that diesel's are less evil than petrol engines.
Only to then find both do actually kill humans.

Wow, it's almost like science corrects itself when new evidence comes to light! Or that megacorporations suppress the science they don't like because it cuts into their profits!

I work in a scientific institute too, you would think ten years in I would be fully sold on the scientific method.

Yet to me middle management , deadlines and target's mean real science is on it's ass.

It needs a conclusive win , not a biological win either.

Prove they know what gravity is for a start , solve the three body problem perhaps or truly describe a Field.

All inherently important to astrophysics and biology, all still being worked on too, without an answer.

Solve them then play god with xenimals

For someone who supposedly works in a science institute, you seem to be extremely uninformed. Here's something that may blow your mind: there are multiple branches of science.

 

[trickson]

Thank GOD for Gravity, How else you think that turd falls from the ass? Could you imagine a world with-out gravity POOP every where!
Just a shit covered galaxy!

 

[witkazy]

Thank GOD for Gravity, How else you think that turd falls from the ass? Could you imagine a world with-out gravity POOP every where!
Just a shit covered galaxy!

They must pray like crazy up there in ISS,
not a single turd in sight

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

If God exists, people like you are his/her greatest disappointment.

Also please note the forum name, it's "Scence and Technology" not "Redneck Religion". The latter is down the road behind the trailer park.



Wow, it's almost like science corrects itself when new evidence comes to light! Or that megacorporations suppress the science they don't like because it cuts into their profits!



For someone who supposedly works in a science institute, you seem to be extremely uninformed. Here's something that may blow your mind: there are multiple branches of science.

To your wow comment , scientists actually effin swore on the Bible they were right the first time (comedy in and of itself) but yes corrected themselves once the courts decided who was right, well done them eh only several thousand extra dead people too, perhaps this time Will be different.
Uninformed about what EXACTLY.

Since you know me crack on and explain what i don't know.

Im just sinical, not stupid and i would appreciate you considering long and hard what i said, because regardless of what division of science has to sort those questions out they all do affect cell formation ,the three body problem perhaps much less than fields or gravity but im not hunting out the white papers to prove it , you're going to have to Google something bro.

Wind back the insulting talk too it just begets more back from me.

I mentioned two science branches yet you think and said that?.

 

[R-T-B]

But again why tempt fate?

I prefer not to fear things that cannot be known.

Prove they know what gravity is for a start

I mean, friggin Kerbal Space program can acurately predict where a solar body will be in the future based on a few mods and our aparently horrible understanding of gravity. Not sure why you think it's a big mystery...

Three-body problem - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Uninformed about what EXACTLY.

A basic scientific principle is the understanding that everything that is not proven is in fact, unknown. Humans make mistakes, but those mistakes are not science.

Thank GOD for Gravity, How else you think that turd falls from the ass? Could you imagine a world with-out gravity POOP every where!
Just a shit covered galaxy!

Play ARK and you can realize this dream...

Alternative theory: All matter is god shit and the big bang was his last flush.

 

[dont whant to set it"']

"Borg" here we become as resistance is futile and we shall assimilate ourselves.
"The Khala" we are as one.
Pretty much the same thing , the OP "beat me to it".

Scientists create a 'lifelike' material that has metabolism and can self-reproduce

An innovation may lead to lifelike evolving machines.

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