Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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After the ill fated rollout of the Covid vaccines and the purported problems of RNA - or messing with Mother Nature, I wonder if we could end up with a bunch of Audrey II plants from 'The Little Shop of Horrors'.
However, if a bunch of Audrey II clones suck up the CO2 while chomping down the occasional unfortunate bystander and they Greta Thunberg and Al Gore off the front page, it might be worthwhile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth
Introducing various genetically engineered species could also cause the extinction of various lifeforms native to Earth, including possibly humans, by disrupting the biosphere. In effect they would be invasive species that are better adapted.
The movie Interstellar featured a "blight" of this nature as a plot device:
https://interstellarfilm.fandom.com/wiki/The_Blight
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Revelation-Chapter-16/
And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.
4And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
When genetic engineering began of course, there were noble goals like producing synthetic insulins from biologically modified organisms or cells. There was a slippery slope argument at the time that this would inevitably lead to problems later on and the technologies intrinsically would lead to various forms of harm -- the possible lab escape of COVID could be an example of that if true, of course.
In any case, most physicists believe in the many worlds theory, so if there is some extremely bad outcome there will in that case, perhaps be many different Earths who survive any given existential or societal risk and avoid the suffering when it takes place.
Otherwise, from a Christian point of view of course, some people believe we will be raptured before any of this takes place, and unbelievers will then be left behind on a world that will be all but uninhabitable -- there are a long list of bad things that supposedly happen during a so-called "tribulation period". Confusingly, of course, not all Christians interpret the Bible this way, and of course other faiths have different views about what might or might not happen.