<div dir="ltr">It's a bit more than mere reverse engineering. They have created organisms with extended DNA coding, using more than the G, T C and A molecules to have entirely new life forms.<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/23/organisms-created-with-synthetic-dna-pave-way-for-new-entirely-new-life-forms">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/23/organisms-created-with-synthetic-dna-pave-way-for-new-entirely-new-life-forms</a><br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 25 May 2021 at 20:01, Marcus Daniels <<a href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yep, reverse engineering nanomachines so that they can be controlled.
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<p class="MsoNormal">from wikipedia <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)">Synthetic biology</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)"> (<b>SynBio</b>) is a multidisciplinary area of research that seeks to create
new biological parts, devices, and systems, or to redesign systems that are already found in nature.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)">It is a branch of science that encompasses a broad range of methodologies from various disciplines, such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotechnology" title="Biotechnology" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(6,69,173)">biotechnology</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering" title="Genetic engineering" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(6,69,173)">genetic
engineering</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_biology" title="Molecular biology" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(6,69,173)">molecular biology</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_engineering" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(6,69,173)">molecular
engineering</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_biology" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(6,69,173)">systems biology</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_lipid_bilayer" title="Model lipid bilayer" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(6,69,173)">membrane
science</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophysics" title="Biological systems" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(6,69,173)">biophysics</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_engineering" title="Biological engineering" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(6,69,173)">chemical
and biological engineering</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_engineering" title="Electrical engineering" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(6,69,173)">electrical and computer engineering</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_engineering" title="Control engineering" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(6,69,173)">control
engineering</span></a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_biology" title="Molecular engineering" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(6,69,173)">evolutionary biology</span></a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)">Due to more powerful <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering" title="Genetic engineering" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(6,69,173)">genetic engineering</span></a> capabilities
and decreased DNA synthesis and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_sequencing" title="DNA sequencing" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(6,69,173)">sequencing costs</span></a>, the field of synthetic biology is rapidly growing. In 2016, more than 350 companies across
40 countries were actively engaged in synthetic biology applications; all these companies had an estimated net worth of $3.9 billion in the global market.</span><sup id="gmail-m_2209063572598958103gmail-cite_ref-1"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology#cite_note-1" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(6,69,173)">[1]</span></a></span></sup><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Marcus, we've been "experimenting" with our terrestrial biome for at least 10-12,000 years (when the first spade hit the ground).
The time for more experiments is over....unless they are experiments that help us understand even more deeply how to restore the Mycelium networks so that the fungi can solve our climate change challenge. This is perhaps the most important task that will
save us from extinction. See Merlin Sheldrake's book, "Entangled Life" for explanation.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We won’t realize anything unless the experiments happen. We may not learn from experiments, but that is a different issue than the need for the experiments. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p>My father dedicated his life to "forest management" as a professional forester, trained in biology and range/timber management. He retired "early" after 30 years somewhat in disgust over the changing of aesthetics and perspectives of the United States
Forest Service. He was dedicated and loyal to the spirit of Aldo Leopold and other early conservationists. He spent multiple multi-week segments every summer leading (most Zuni and Hopi native) fire-crews on the West Coast trying ot protec homes and "valuable
timber". We lived on the edge of the first Wilderness (Gila) created (at the behest of Aldo Leopold) for 2/3 of my growing up years. My father died 10 years ago (Alzheimers), was cremated, and we (illegall) spread his cremains in the heart of the Gila with
a minor amount of guilt as he was a (nearly) strict rule follower (yet asked for this). Within the year, a serious wildfire complex converged at almost the exact spot we scattered him (woooOoooooo!).
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<p>Even my Trump-voting (2016) sister and husband are now acknowledging that his life/profession were dedicated to a project that was fundamentally "unwise". They *were* (for the most part) doing the best they knew how. Most everything they did (from stopping
wildfires at the first opportunity) to running dual bulldozers across landscapes with a chain between them to clear the juniper trees from a landscape to allow more grass (for cattle) to grow was "well intended", but it was *range* and *timber* management
not "grassland" and "forest" management as they called it. The goal was to maximize the "productivity" of the public lands under their management (dept of Agriculture_. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM dept of Interior) was know to be *worse* in the sense
that their rules on cattle and mining were much less careful of protecting the landscape and biome. The National Parks were derided by both the Forest Service and the BLM for being "much too restrictive" (no "harvesting of resources"!!!!)
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<p>And yet NOW we realize how "unwise" all of that was. But in the same breath we suggest that all of our exploitative depradations of the planet's "resources" are necessary and possibly "a really good thing"... and I am sure that in another 20 or 50 years
we will be lamenting *all* of the things that today we are promoting wholeheartedly in the name of "progress".
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<p>This is part of how I became a neo-Luddite.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">Let's hope they are a bit more wise in managing the wildfires in the future than they were in the 20th century.<br>
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/14/california-fire-suppression-forests-tinderbox" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/14/california-fire-suppression-forests-tinderbox</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-size:88.5pt;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">B</span><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">efore this unprecedented era of mega-blazes on the US west coast, California’s forests had a canny, ingenious way of avoiding
destructive worst-case forest fire scenarios. By periodically removing the grasses, shrubs and young trees – known as the forest understory – <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/california" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(203,71,0)">California</span></a> avoided
fires growing to destructive intensities before the 20th century. The way this was done? Fire.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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Every five to 15 years, groundfires would burn through the forest, killing off the undergrowth on a regular basis, thus removing the material that can act as tinder and kindle fires. Such groundfires were sparked by lightning or by indigenous people who used
sophisticated burning practices to facilitate crop growing and hunting. Because the fires occurred frequently, the understory rarely had time to build up enough combustible material for the fires to reach the canopies of the mature trees – which is what causes
the large, devastating fires we are seeing now. As a result, overstory trees might get wounded by the groundfires, but they would rarely get killed.<u></u><u></u></p>
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