Oh, then in that case, I stand very corrected. Thanks. I was thinking more along the lines of the dragon in Mulan as voiced by Eddie Murphy which could be a perfect eliminator for the major carrier of an otherwise resilient disease. I'm glad to have been set straight. The global threat of Ebola was initiated by a child playing with infected bats though, so watch out what you're breeding.
## Jonathan Cline ## jcline@ieee.org ## Mobile: +1-805-617-0223 ########################On 1/28/15 10:47 AM, Cory Geesaman wrote:
A dragon in itself is a perfectly useful creation in and of itself, see my post in this thread from January 20th for why. Besides, a dragon would be a poor way to get rid of mosquitoes unless you are talking about dragon flies. The cool factor of a dragon is more than enough reason to make it (just look at the designer herp community - it's enormous and nearly all species of amphibians and reptiles are bred in captivity because there are lots of people that love keeping them as pets, many species even come in a plethora of "morphs" at this point typically based on temperment, ease of care or appearance). A dragon makes sense as the moonshot of synthetic biology and to get some serious sequencing to take place of all species along with the subsequent data analytics required because there's already a huge community of captive breeders of amphibians and reptiles that are hugely active in selective breeding programs so sample acquisition can more or less be eliminated as a cost of the project. To reiterate another previous post "just because you can" is the foundation of science along with what is "cool" - once you have the foundation then engineers take over to turn the discoveries involved into "useful" devices, organisms, etc. You aren't going to learn how to build everything from dragons and leviathons to dyson trees and oil producing bacteria if you start with oil producing bacteria or dyson trees because they are too simple, they aren't cool and the natural inclination of the researcher will be to achieve the objective without getting diverted on all kinds of tangents to gain a complete understanding of synthetic biology that extends into practically any creation. You need something both arbitrarily complex and "cool" to keep people focused just enough to stick with it without someone in the managerial level screaming about deadlines because dragons are such serious business they need them by x date to meet a project timeline. A dragon is more or less a perfect project for mental masturbation that is more or less guaranteed to lead into very useful avenues of development and that nobody will really care too much about maintaining intellectual property rights over or otherwise suppressing the research gained.
On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 1:26:31 PM UTC-5, Jonathan Cline wrote:The point, in case you missed it: Do both at the same time.
(The comic book analogy.)
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On 1/28/15 5:58 AM, Cathal Garvey wrote:
> Or we'll just carry on having fun, that's also a good avenue for
> discussion.
>
> On 28/01/15 09:50, Jonathan Cline wrote:
>> Make sure to engineer their appetite to enjoy eating malaria-carrying
>> mosquitoes, so as to eliminate an incredible harm to humanity which is
>> threatening to destroy the last working antibiotics on earth even today.
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>> Presumably if you're doing a fantasy write-up you must include some
>> /*real*/ life saving goals and moral lessons just as superheroes
>> demonstrate in fantasy comic books.
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