Biology, eh?

[abygael]

Those of you who know me in real life are probably aware of my general disdain for biology. Now I'm not about to change my stance at all - obviously physics will forever remain far superior - but having been researching and pondering biology for a story I'm currently writing, I've come to realise exactly why I disdain it so.

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[lambdapi]

So tell me about 90% of the mass in our galaxy, Ms Physicist. nobody's ever synthesised an organism? Show me a gravity generator, then. There's a lot we don't know, and people have only been serioulsy biologing for about 150 years. You physics people have been going since the ancient Greeks.

Saying "nobody's ever made a cell molecule by molecule" is saying "Nobody's ever conducted an experiment on pendulums with artificial gravity." Just as physics used what already exists, gravity, and measures what happens to the pendulum, we can use what already exists, a cell, and fill it with synthesised / modified DNA and watch what happens. This is known as cloning. It's just the fucking ethicists bitching that slows down biology.

You wouldn't get anywhere either if idiots with lawyers were claiming that electrons had feelings.

[lambdapi]

Fuck logging in

[thundastruck]

haha. my thoughts exactly. And good luck with your story, T. =D