| We all know it too well, Science Fiction has taken us to new levels. Today unlike the 1950s we have no more of magazines like the popular Amazing Stories to read. We aren't clones of another race and we won't venture out in space. Perhaps the aliens will have the technology to mutate us into stronger and reliable race only to abandon us later when they suck our resources dry. But since there are no aliens from other worlds, 20 years will have passed and the human species has run thousands of tests on the Human Genome Project which would of probably survived another cold war. |
It is 2023 and Russia, a well-balanced and a industrial giant in the world, has come up with half the research of cryosurgery, the science of freezing organic material it's maximum freezing point. Is this right for us to know the genetic makeup of ourselves? Yes, I think so. What do we plan to do with it? An obvious answer is how about shooting it off in space. With the warmth of a nuclear reactor it is possible to have genetic code survive 100 years. We may not have the technology to generate a nuclear reactor large that is safe enough. the probe will probably blow up if it hits the asteroid belt near Saturn. We probably will do it any ways despite the slim chances it will make it out of the solar system. Hollywood is one example of how the same idea can be used again and again. If you take the movie "The Matrix" you will see how we destroy ourselves by creating artificial intelligence. So far AI is dumb in it's nature. It can hardly recognize human movement with millions of lines of source code. Often machines seen in movies are more intelligent then they really are. For example I download many mp3s off the Internet at night. Each mp3 has to be downloaded after each other so I set each one to download at a curtain time" The Terminator was a machine that could sense danger. We're at least 15 years away from a computer sensing danger. A lot can happen in 15 years. So the computers rely on human know how. Often scientists can't get the robots to work so they often spend millions of dollars this to prove that it's possible. Its rather expensive but I know a couple British scientists are able to keep the AI Project going. The project is basically a big box with 2 motion capture cameras with lan of computers. If you played videogames then we're talking a different AI. The "bots" are programmed to attack the main character. The enemies are limited to how good the programmer programmed them. And no game is perfect. DNA is artifially created in a computer first and simulated if it was really going to grow. But in real life the dna strand that makes up muscle could easily be stopped by another gene. So the scientists program the gene into it. Computers make growing organs possible in a sterial environment. President Clinton stated, "Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. At its worst could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kinds of children - to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals."In "6 Days" Arnold Schwarzenagenor gets cloned by the use of a eye and blood sample device. The genome of the human body is somehow put into a sack which is frozen until it is ready to be used. A huge cryogenic chamber then puts a layer of human skin, forms organs (brain included) and then individually shoots genetic code with a "Gene Gun" to make up for skin color, muscle content. After the process is complete the cloned Arnold is put into dispensed animation (where he is frozen called Cryonics) until scientist can figure out if everything went 100% perfect and he will survive. In my opinion this movie is the closest science fiction on television most realistic to what will happen in the next 40 years. Right now we have the technology to freeze a person but we can't revive him without causing damage to organs in his body by warming them up to room temperature. The organization that does human cryonics is called the Alcor Foundation. Alcor uses a process called "vitrification". It's only a year old method of freezing organs or patients with in minutes of entering a special chamber. This way Ice crystals, which cause wear 'n tear on the body when frozen, can't be formed. Right now they are looking for people willing to die and resurrect in 100 years. I think that scientists who can do this are apart of Generation X and will effect how most people feel about each other. 
Hospitals equipped with a genetic lab all ready have hard time transporting organs. Most organs are transported in lunch box type coolers by truck or passenger plane. The ideal time for cryonics to be used to remove the organ is within 30 minutes of the death of a person. These people are usually air-lifted to the closest hospital that has an operating room. Most people know that there are more patients then organ donors. I am not sure if I want to give up a organ myself. I'm not going to use it when I am died. The organ surgeons only take organs that are healthy and cancer free. Often patients on the waiting list get organs from 25-45 year olds. I think that growing organs with someone's DNA is the technology (also genetic scanning) will expand the most in the next 20 years. I have no evidence to back me up but I this think so. It is the simplist way scientists can create organs from scratch. All is needed is a full staff of scientists and a stariel environment to extract dna and put in a cell without a nucleus. How far are we in this area? We are 20 years into cloning bacteria, and 10 years cloning multi-celled animals. We will definably have a human cloned in 15 years. On the Internet I read about a dog named Miles who recovered from braindeath by the use of experimental cryonics. It proves that saving the brain can be done for at least a year. I bet a team of scientists at Alcor are plugging away at the brain. The brain is formed out of a million different cells. That's nearly a billion ways to go wrong! People need a little science fiction to brighten our future. Ever since Dolly the Sheep was a 99.9% cloning success, genetic cloning came in the new era of biotechnolegy. In the future high tech freezing of humans who want to be immortal for atleast 100 years will be the closest cost efficient way. Ever wonder why people say that they fe like a million bucks? That's why. The government knows that human clones would be unfar. Besides the Catholic/ Luthern community would go nuts. Interesting Topics Clonaid™ - A interest company founded by the founder of a group called the Raelions. This organization believes that man kind are all clones of an alien race. This company wants to lead the way for us to play God and live forever by cloning ourselves. They don't know if they can do it cost effectibly but the company garentees human cloning is possible in 2023. Country's with "The Genome Project" Germany California, USA France Scotland Australia Russia ReferencesTop Human Genome ProjectUCSC Genome Official webpage Clonaid.com Cryoncs Cryogenics discussion Cryogenics "Babies in Space" Cryobiology Human Immoriality Art of Computer Game Design Written by Ian Campbell | v 0.4 | January 13, 2003 08:12 PM | 
