Imortality Drive

[sobe]

Hiya all, i was watching a show called Life After Humans, and it mentioned a bit about something called the Imortality Drive (ill call it ID from now on) that was on the International Space Station (ISS from now on). it said the ID had the entire DNA codes for a few people such as stephen hawken, some porn star, and Stephen Colbert from the Colbert Report tv show, and was ment that if the human race was wiped out and an intellegent alian life form found earth and the ID thye could recreat humans.

 

 

 

 

could humans be recreated just by knowing the recipy for there making? have we already done it? would aliens want us? what are your opinions?

[cameron marical]

Yes, i think that Aliens could bring us back, so long as their system had very similiar functions. It would be essentially the same as cloning{though they would need an embryo nearly identicall to a human one, and have technology of at least our status}. Was the DNA actually like cotton swabs or computer digits? If the ladder, then im not sure.

 

Have we already done what?

 

I think that they would want to too for research if they havent already done this before and are curious in nature like many of us. Just as we would if we had the chance.

[Mr Skeptic]

It would be possible, but not with our current technology. Of course, I'd expect any aliens that can come to earth to be quite technologically advanced. Whether they'd want to resurrect a species which most likely is dead due to wiping itself out is rather questionable.

[cameron marical]

they could be primitave as us, or even less, like 70's age, and happen to have goals set primarily on space travel through long distance.

[sobe]

cameron, it was just the code, no accual genetic material.

[Sisyphus]

It seems unlikely that an alien would a)know what it was looking at b)care c)want to recreate human beings d)be able to do so. But hey, maybe.

[sobe]

they might not find or know what it is, but if they did, then they could want to reconstruct humans purely out of intrest. if humans found an alien dna code and had the tech to reconstruct an alien life form, we'd do it in a heart beat. out of this reasoning, we asume they might do the same.

[Sisyphus]

But we're not them. And if we found an alien code, most likely we would have no idea what we'd found. Show a guy from 1850 a DVD, and ask him what he's looking at.

[SH3RL0CK]

But we're not them. And if we found an alien code, most likely we would have no idea what we'd found. Show a guy from 1850 a DVD, and ask him what he's looking at.

 

Or show someone in high school today this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PhonographPatentEdison1880.jpg

 

and ask them what they should do with it.

 

The aliens would most likely have no idea what they had found and might not bother to try to figure it out...

[Mr Skeptic]

Or they might think that the DNA coded for a biochemical servant. Really advanced technology that was preserved in space for safety.

[GDG]

could humans be recreated just by knowing the recipy for there making? have we already done it? would aliens want us? what are your opinions?

 

Have we done it? No: it would take quite a while to assemble that number of bases from scratch. We have enough trouble making clones of mammals, even given a live egg cell to start with. (Yes, we can make clones: they are not always particularly healthy, and there are a lot of failures.)

 

Would it work, given just the DNA sequence? Probably not: there is a lot of "context" that would be missing. First off, of course, there is the epigenetic programming -- things like methylation of certain bases to regulate expression. More to the point, if you just expressed all the coding sequences, you would not spontaneously get cells. As an alien, given only the code (and perhaps a picture of Carl Sagan), how would you know that the target organism was made up of myriads of specialized cells, that they required inputs of amino acids, glucose, lipids, certain minerals, and certain specialized chemicals like vitamins (none of which are mentioned in the "code"). And what sort of environment would the target organism need? Does it breathe? If so, does it require O2, CO2, H2, H2S, a mixture, or something else? Does it need or use water, or another liquid solvent? It would take a huge amount of research to figure out just where to start -- and that is assuming that the information included a translation of the codons (i.e., that the base sequence is read in triplets, each triplet corresponding to a particular amino acid, which get covalently linked together...). Even if the aliens who retrieved the code also have DNA as their genetic molecule, there is no intrinsic reason that they would also have the same translation to the same amino acids as us.

[sobe]

Or they might think that the DNA coded for a biochemical servant. Really advanced technology that was preserved in space for safety.

 

good point, but even if we are brought back as bio servents, we can evetualy revolt and bam humans are back an kicken, and we got alien tech now

[cameron marical]

i dont see why aliens wouldnt do tests to try to bring us back and reaserch us, judging by the fact that their snooping around through interplanetary systems, science seems to be their drive.

 

 

Or show someone in high school today this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ph...Edison1880.jpg

 

and ask them what they should do with it.

 

The aliens would most likely have no idea what they had found and might not bother to try to figure it out...

 

im in highschool. freshman. looks to me like some sort of record player. judging by the fact that it was invented by big ol TE, im sure it is of some kind of usefull.

[sfpublic]

Hiya all, i was watching a show called Life After Humans, and it mentioned a bit about something called the Imortality Drive (ill call it ID from now on) that was on the International Space Station (ISS from now on). it said the ID had the entire DNA codes for a few people such as stephen hawken, some porn star, and Stephen Colbert from the Colbert Report tv show, and was ment that if the human race was wiped out and an intellegent alian life form found earth and the ID thye could recreat humans. could humans be recreated just by knowing the recipy for there making? have we already done it? would aliens want us? what are your opinions?

 

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