Indeed, cars driving a circle or people trying to run 0.1 second faster than one another hardly seems to get us anywhere. If people could just be as excited as labs competing to cure cancers

On Friday, October 13, 2017 at 10:36:49 PM UTC+2, Nathan McCorkle wrote:

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Abizar Lakdawalla <abi...@gmail.com> wrote:

No CRISPR for Sports

I really never liked most of the "sports" that exist... autonomous robotics was the closest thing to a competitive sport I ever got into. Also I was on a swim team once when I was very young.

We should start a better sport, take iGem and perform gamification on it. It could span from "microbe battles" to more logically based games/goals (basically copy any of the autonomous robot competitions).

"GMO-only sports" sounds much more interesting.

Seriously, it is sad that people still watch "professional" sports... what a pointless waste of time. That stuff is never going to make the world a better place, at least not any time soon. We aren't fighting off bears and wolves anymore, so it really seems outdated and archaic. Maybe I'm just too big of a nerd to "get" it.