Construct-a-Kid

Queeb Salaron · Post by **Queeb Salaron** » 2003-04-29 01:45pm

Would it be possible with modern technology to go through cell-by-cell and create a living, breathing child? I mean, if you had enough of the right types of cells to construct a liver, for example, you could theoretically combine those cells in just the right way and create a liver, right? Could you not also do the same to an entire human?

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-04-29 01:49pm

Nope.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-04-29 02:00pm

Queeb Salaron · Post by **Queeb Salaron** » 2003-04-29 02:07pm

Ok... Why not?

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-04-29 02:10pm

Doesn't sound like something that makes sense to me.

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2003-04-29 02:11pm

Queeb Salaron wrote:Would it be possible with modern technology to go through cell-by-cell and create a living, breathing child? I mean, if you had enough of the right types of cells to construct a liver, for example, you could theoretically combine those cells in just the right way and create a liver, right? Could you not also do the same to an entire human?

Hahahahaha . . . no.

Seriously, no. We're only now just barely scraping the surface on how to build organs. We're probably at least a century away from being able to do what you're thinking of, if ever.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-04-29 02:11pm

Queeb Salaron wrote:Ok... Why not?

We don't know how to?

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2003-04-29 02:13pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote:Doesn't sound like something that makes sense to me.

Yeah, seriously. I mean, what's the point? The old-fashioned method of making humans grow themselves has worked just fine for over 100,000 years. Sure you might move it out of the womb and into a climate-controlled glass jar in the future, but the current method works just fine.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-04-29 02:57pm

and I think a touch more fun.

Queeb Salaron · Post by **Queeb Salaron** » 2003-04-29 03:02pm

Enforcer Talen wrote:and I think a touch more fun.

Point taken. Thanks, guys.

UltraViolence83 · Post by **UltraViolence83** » 2003-04-29 06:53pm

Well, I hope we never aquire this technology. It'd put a price tag on human life. I also do NOT want myself, or my forebearers to have to live in a world where natural procreation is shunned. But that's just me and my paranoia talking.

Queeb Salaron · Post by **Queeb Salaron** » 2003-04-29 08:13pm

UltraViolence83 wrote:Well, I hope we never aquire this technology. It'd put a price tag on human life. I also do NOT want myself, or my forebearers to have to live in a world where natural procreation is shunned. But that's just me and my paranoia talking.

Hmm, true. And I suppose that if we started mass-producing people, it wouldn't much help the over-population problem, eh?

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-04-29 08:31pm

UltraViolence83 wrote:Well, I hope we never aquire this technology. It'd put a price tag on human life. I also do NOT want myself, or my forebearers to have to live in a world where natural procreation is shunned. But that's just me and my paranoia talking.

Slippery slope. The existance of this technology would not necessarily lead to natural reproduction being shunned. It's possible, but it is by no means guaranteed.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-04-29 09:23pm

I really don't see a reason to produce kids in a lab, as there might be defects in such children if things don't go right. The only use I'd see for it is as a last-resort measure to re-inhabit an area that's lost almost all of it's population, which I don't see likely.

UltraViolence83 · Post by **UltraViolence83** » 2003-04-29 10:53pm

Apparently Xalev didn't see the disclaimer I put: That's just me and my paranoia talking.

I fear many slippery slope futures. Not because I find them likely or even possible, but because I'm a paranoid spaz.

Fortunately, my fears fall away and die as time progresses and I debunk them.

Queeb Salaron · Post by **Queeb Salaron** » 2003-04-29 11:07pm

OMG, UltraViolence!! LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!!

Paraniod people are amusing.

UltraViolence83 · Post by **UltraViolence83** » 2003-04-29 11:11pm

I was a very easily frightened child, and I took everything very seriously, odd for a little kid.

I swear a year ago I was one step away from the crazy guy in the shack in the woods building bombs to wipe out the Illuminati.

Ok ok I'm exaggerating, but still.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-04-30 05:58am

Make a child cell-by-cell? That's as bad as nanotech enthusiasts who think making a car atom-by-atom is a good idea.

Do you know how just how many cells form an adult human being? There are 10^11 neuron and 10^12 glial cells in the brain alone.

Sure it could be done, but I hope you have a spare millenia or two, overtime will be a bit of a bitch.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2003-04-30 06:35am

There is a reason life is made by Von Newmann Machines. It's the best way.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-04-30 10:02am

UltraViolence83 wrote:Apparently Xalev didn't see the disclaimer I put: That's just me and my paranoia talking.

I saw it, but it didn't register.

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