Artificial Life & Possible Oldest Human Footprint

Scary thought:
 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070820/ap_on_sc/artificial_life

a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer.  Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years about a technology that could change our world in pretty fundamental ways — in fact, in ways that are impossible to predict."  (THATS SCARY)

"Creating protocells has the potential to shed new light on our place in the universe," Bedau said. "This will remove one of the few fundamental mysteries about creation in the universe and our role."
And several scientists believe man-made life forms will one day offer the potential for solving a variety of problems, from fighting diseases to locking up greenhouse gases to eating toxic waste. ( hmmmm and creating new problems no doubt; after  their done eating the toxic waste then what ? EAT US HUMANS?)

2nd story of the day not scary just interesting
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070820/sc_nm/egypt_antiquities_dc
Egypt discovers what may be oldest human footprint
"This could go back about two million years," Khaled Saad, the director of prehistory at the council, said that based on the age of the rock where the footprint was found, it could date back even further than the renowned 3-million year-old fossil Lucy, the partial skeleton of an ape-man, found in Ethiopia in 1974





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