Angela Belcher very inspiring speech. I hope your find your way to help "us" the human race in to a better place on this planet. I am impressive, stunned, happy to see that some people cares and understand!
I had (basically) this same idea about 28 years ago, except that I was thinking organically "grown" vessels for space exploration...my friends laughed at me.
I'm grateful thousands outside her classroom will hear this, maybe even discuss it. So many industry roadblocks are set up to keep such genuinely good thinking from ever getting off the ground, or even heard. We live in stupendous times and genius with good intention like this is what will eventually change the world from a toxic hell to a wondrous heaven as it was intended. Thank you Mrs Belcher.
Consider, if you will, these creatures have intelligence and consciousness!?!
This is heavy, Doc! I think we are at the beginning of an industrial revolution never seen before. Probably the transition from hunters & gatherers to agriculture (hunting nature vs. domesticating it) is the closest analogy. This includes "additive manufacturing" aka 3D printing, self-assembly of structures such as DNA origami, and this synthetic biology, and also radical improvements for humans (artificial organs, growing/printing organs, cyber enhancements, repairing aging and so on).
I've bookmarked this page in order to link to it when I see a creationist vs evolution argument. The creationists will be informed as to the reality and usefulness of evolution, and the rest will be well entertained.
If this brings me one step closer towards the ability to emit lightning from my penis, I am totally in favour of it. If not, many apologies for my eccentric fetishes and limited understanding of bioengineering.
Seeing all this leaves me stunned by realizing the potential/ power we have as humans. Time to change the world plz. I'm sick and tired of the old. Bring on the new and innovative!
That doesn't matter. Normal batteries also run out and break and stuff. It doesn't matter if biological batteries become degraded since you can get new ones easily and throw away the old ones, except now, they do not destroy the environment.
@HybridD91 viruses are not alive. they are DNA or RNA in a protein enclosure. they are more like molecules programmed to do something. They cannot replicate themselves, they need to insert the DNA they carry into the genome of a host bacteria or cell so that the cell will replicate for them.
i have always conceived of our ability to manipulate DNA to construct things we have today, such as clothes or even things as complex as whole cars, or by now advanced automobiles. :P
Too bad she talked so fast and had to rush it, it would be a lot nicer if she would have just told it slowly. However this got my interest :D, how about a PhD at MIT? :D now i have something to study for :D
I think she is confused on the role of the viruses (or maybe I am). The viruses are only used to insert DNA into the bacteria to change the bacteria into ones that will make batteries, etc. Your car wouldn't be powered by viruses, but by batteries made by bacteria which were engineered using viruses. She talks about the viruses grabbing nano-wires but I think she meant to say the bacteria do this. Can someone correct me? I vote we give more money to these smart people!
@WarmWeatherGuy Yea im having problems with the same thought as you, however she also shows the virusses with the ''grabed'' molecules on the surface in the slides.
The E. coli cells are only used to replicate the viruses in this case. The viruses can be made to latch onto and coat itself with inorganic materials including gold and cobalt oxide. The long tubular virus (coated in cobalt oxide) now acts as a minuscule length of wire called a nanowire.
@Dmevi Thanks. You got me to watch it over again. At 6:35 she says ...it allows the virus to express random protein sequences. Obviously viruses do not make protein. I think that she speaks that way because it is the viruses that they are manipulating. The bacteria are only there to make the protein. It is the proteins that are doing all the chemistry to build batteries, etc. Are you thinking that the extra proteins are becoming part of the virus? Or are the extra proteins floating freely?
Why couldn't I have a prof or teacher like her? Quite inspiring and I love that she hands out small periodic tables that say "Welcome to MIT, now you're in your element." Clever and thoughtful. Great talk.
@utimatevacation bacteriophages can only infect bacteria, they are harmless to animals. also, many organisms used in labs are designed so that they can not survive "on their own", outside of the lab (or some other optimal environment).
@xxFNORDxx :-) the brain always works faster than the mouth :-) Hers just process words faster than average and it doesn't necessarily mean intelligence. I know ppl who spoke stupid things very fast ;-)
Not just out of bone tissue, from what she's saying, a self assembling bridge made from nanotubes and nano structured materials, including metals... so fraking cool!!!
@Monchanger religion isn't magic. Religion is a complex set of rituals (including verbal rituals) based upon a belief in magic. The magic could go away tomorrow but the rituals won't. And they think if the magic goes so do they (but they won't... I'm putting money on atheist christians and atheist muslims in 50yrs+).
"No god's not real because god is magic. But you're still going to hell if you don't pray before you eat!"
@Icemario87 Well said. But not exactly my point. Ask any "magician" (e.g. Randi) what magic is and they won't say anything about the supernatural. Rather, they will explain that what they do is simply deception, which is what I was suggesting religious "leaders" practice. As you pointed out, the rituals out may be inspired by alleged supernatural events (or be such events, as claimed in Catholic mass), but they actually serve as a distraction from the questioning of faith.
@Monchanger Got ya, makes sense. It was a bit of a leap for me from "science as magic" to "magic as religion" to "magic (and therefore religion) as deception," given the comments.
And despite the fact that both religion and magicians employ deception, the redeeming quality of the magician is that his(her) audience suspects it. The show itself reminds you that it is just a show.
With religion the deception is lifelong and complete, even encouraging proliferation.
@cmd2tuts the god who is so omnipotent that he cant do anything about our diminishing planet but he is able to look on while mere humans find ways by themselves to save it.
WOW! I don't understand a lot of what she said because she was going so fast but her ideas and creations are amazing. @CloudMeetsSky I fully agree! Cut defense and fund more biotechnology.
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Great.. now its not just the pharmaceuticals that are creating new viruses & other micro-organisms through trial & error!! Call me a bit paranoid, but if you have loose oil lying around all the time, sooner or later, its catching fire...
@BestestMoron i dont think they're screwing around with viruses that infect human cells just bacteria, so I'm sure you have nothing more to worry about
If they were working with silicon based micro organisms, you would have had a case... but a carbon based life is one among us. I fully mentally support her efforts... its just that there are two sides to macro-world coins & since most were drinking the WoW!! kool-aid, I just brought up the flip side.
I love this lady! When I can grow my own living spaceship, I'm naming it after her!
Conversely if a zombie comes to my doorstep to kill me, I'm going to assume its her haha... Please make viruses look good and not worse than they already can be. 8)
@morthim i really liked the content :) most of the videos on this channel is great and I'm really into science that the average bloke would only think exists in sci-fi movies :P
Her own work is introduced at 6:24 She is using evolution and selection to engineer microorganisms that solve specific tasks such as bulding small self assembling objects. It sounds like fun.
It was merely a comment. obviously Science research should be done freely, as it will be mans salvation. It will get us off this rock that has so graciously mothered us and back into the stars where we have been beckoned since man could dream.
@CloudMeetsSky Funny thing is that if we poured all our money into this and it was a smashing sucsess, it would go straight to the military for their benifit, not ours.
@cristoretornebiblia The thing is, it doesn't really generate profit, it simply transfers wealth from the taxpayer to a corporation. A true profit is when you give the people something they want for a lower cost than they are willing to pay.
i was very very disapointed in teh first few minutes , was begining to ownder if this speaker would tell us what we already knw and offer no solutions , and then when she showed the solutions i was awestruck by 2 things. 1 how simple and effective they were, 2 how she reguards them as simple and effective instead of mindboggling successes O.o
So i don't get why it's certain that those viruses and bacteria will not suffer mutations that would make them get away from the applications they were designed for...
If they do, and breed like camels in Australia, that might be a problem.
But more importantly, the technology will become, like computers, much more accessible. So even private terrorists(as in other then the US government ) will be able to work in the field.
There are billions of viruses in each drop of sea water. Are you terrified of the ocean? You have more bacteria living in your body than you have cells. Why are you not terrified that these will mutate into pathogens? Why do you think that engineered viruses and bacteria are so much more dangerous than the ones I mentioned?
On the other hand, the fact that it's becoming increasingly easy to engineer these things does make bioterrorism easier to commit. I can't argue with that.
Angela Belcher very inspiring speech. I hope your find your way to help "us" the human race in to a better place on this planet. I am impressive, stunned, happy to see that some people cares and understand!
omdawe 1 week ago
Fascinating info.. thanks you.
BackyardDiscoveryCo 3 weeks ago
grate invention..love the video ..and very interesting
andreeaweed 4 months ago
The future is bright still.
AngelaHarkavy 6 months ago
She should have had so much more time. This is important!
Winamplama 7 months ago
I probably got like 60 years left to live and It's going to be amazing to live this life with this explosion of ground breaking science.
maggru91 7 months ago
I wish she had more time but that was awesome!
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my mind = blown
Elfarik 7 months ago
This just gave me an idea for a science fiction book:)
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Melki 8 months ago
I had (basically) this same idea about 28 years ago, except that I was thinking organically "grown" vessels for space exploration...my friends laughed at me.
eluap 8 months ago
I'm grateful thousands outside her classroom will hear this, maybe even discuss it. So many industry roadblocks are set up to keep such genuinely good thinking from ever getting off the ground, or even heard. We live in stupendous times and genius with good intention like this is what will eventually change the world from a toxic hell to a wondrous heaven as it was intended. Thank you Mrs Belcher.
Consider, if you will, these creatures have intelligence and consciousness!?!
wilikoki69 8 months ago
its rare that sceientists will announce a goal, and then achieve it in the same talk! great work!
deemuun 8 months ago
Too good!
MarthDinosaur 8 months ago
Shit, she's married. Hopes crushed.
offmeds2nite 9 months ago
Shit, shes married. Hopes crushed.
offmeds2nite 9 months ago
you think I'll be able to grow me a gf?
xjustamem0ryx 9 months ago
@xjustamem0ryx
"viral gf. just add water!"
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waicheaj 9 months ago
This is heavy, Doc! I think we are at the beginning of an industrial revolution never seen before. Probably the transition from hunters & gatherers to agriculture (hunting nature vs. domesticating it) is the closest analogy. This includes "additive manufacturing" aka 3D printing, self-assembly of structures such as DNA origami, and this synthetic biology, and also radical improvements for humans (artificial organs, growing/printing organs, cyber enhancements, repairing aging and so on).
VovixLDR 9 months ago
I've bookmarked this page in order to link to it when I see a creationist vs evolution argument. The creationists will be informed as to the reality and usefulness of evolution, and the rest will be well entertained.
TheThomaswastaken 9 months ago 2
@TheThomaswastaken
tbh the creationists will probably just plug their ears "A LA, LA, LA, LA!"
xjustamem0ryx 9 months ago
This is amazing. I hope noone forces that female to the kitchen.
LittleTownInNorway 9 months ago
wow
EltBerserker 9 months ago
one of nature's secrets is not using patents but let new "discoveries" prosper
in other words: if nature had patents, life on earth would still consist only of bacterias (with windows 3.1 on them lol)
anyhow...: this is pretty brilliant stuff!
mahatmaBit 9 months ago
If this brings me one step closer towards the ability to emit lightning from my penis, I am totally in favour of it. If not, many apologies for my eccentric fetishes and limited understanding of bioengineering.
CynicalFrequency 9 months ago 2
@xjustamem0ryx rofl!!!
DurexDurpaneu2 9 months ago
Seeing all this leaves me stunned by realizing the potential/ power we have as humans. Time to change the world plz. I'm sick and tired of the old. Bring on the new and innovative!
DurexDurpaneu2 9 months ago 9
@DurexDurpaneu2
sure..."Right After This Break! Don't Go Away! Next We Have Bacterial Mud Wrestling!"
xjustamem0ryx 9 months ago
@DurexDurpaneu2 Hell. Yes. We could rock so much as a species, and I think we've kinda forgotten that.
Epistemofo 8 months ago
If the viruses actively retain those structures after building them, what happens then if the viruses die for some reason..
Also, would a battery like that be susceptible to a biological infection of some kind during its lifetime?
Qadi11 9 months ago
@Qadi11 Viruses don't die I think...
That doesn't matter. Normal batteries also run out and break and stuff. It doesn't matter if biological batteries become degraded since you can get new ones easily and throw away the old ones, except now, they do not destroy the environment.
ForteMajor 9 months ago
@ForteMajor
I guess ur right..
Qadi11 9 months ago
@ForteMajor Viruses can die...we kill them all the time with Clorox. It's just too many to rid the planet of them XD.
HybridD91 9 months ago
@HybridD91 Actually they're not alive. I think by killing them you mean destroying their RNA or DNA.
ForteMajor 9 months ago
@HybridD91 viruses are not alive. they are DNA or RNA in a protein enclosure. they are more like molecules programmed to do something. They cannot replicate themselves, they need to insert the DNA they carry into the genome of a host bacteria or cell so that the cell will replicate for them.
gariadara 9 months ago
who needs viagra when you can have a brand spanking new virus-powered er3cti0n.
xjustamem0ryx 9 months ago
@xjustamem0ryx HIV!!!!!
HybridD91 9 months ago
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let us drive a virus-powered prius
JianJieOng 10 months ago
let us drive a virus-powered prius
JianJieOng 10 months ago
let us drive a virus-powered prius
JianJieOng 10 months ago
WoW !
eshyoboy 10 months ago
animal hosts? uncontrolled biodiversity?
SSuperCuriouss 10 months ago
High power virus battery:
Where can I get one?
Where does the power come from?
Is it rechargeable?
Zappyguy111 10 months ago
Next Gen Internet @ /watch?v=mnx-uUeHuqg
xjustamem0ryx 10 months ago
engineer the viruses to build entire cities!
cyborg blow-up dolls inc!
xjustamem0ryx 10 months ago
i have always conceived of our ability to manipulate DNA to construct things we have today, such as clothes or even things as complex as whole cars, or by now advanced automobiles. :P
SheepRCool17 10 months ago
Ads in 20 years: "Are you tired of fixing your flying cars? buy our mechanic bacteria and we'll give you 2 car washer viruses absolutely free!"
solsav 10 months ago 2
@solsav
ftmfw! lol
xjustamem0ryx 10 months ago
Too bad she talked so fast and had to rush it, it would be a lot nicer if she would have just told it slowly. However this got my interest :D, how about a PhD at MIT? :D now i have something to study for :D
Dmevi 10 months ago
How can I invest in this?
SpiDeRReal 10 months ago
Umbrella Corporation
inanimation 10 months ago
I think she is confused on the role of the viruses (or maybe I am). The viruses are only used to insert DNA into the bacteria to change the bacteria into ones that will make batteries, etc. Your car wouldn't be powered by viruses, but by batteries made by bacteria which were engineered using viruses. She talks about the viruses grabbing nano-wires but I think she meant to say the bacteria do this. Can someone correct me? I vote we give more money to these smart people!
WarmWeatherGuy 10 months ago
@WarmWeatherGuy Yea im having problems with the same thought as you, however she also shows the virusses with the ''grabed'' molecules on the surface in the slides.
The E. coli cells are only used to replicate the viruses in this case. The viruses can be made to latch onto and coat itself with inorganic materials including gold and cobalt oxide. The long tubular virus (coated in cobalt oxide) now acts as a minuscule length of wire called a nanowire.
So nop she doesnt mean bacteria ^^
Dmevi 10 months ago
@Dmevi Thanks. You got me to watch it over again. At 6:35 she says ...it allows the virus to express random protein sequences. Obviously viruses do not make protein. I think that she speaks that way because it is the viruses that they are manipulating. The bacteria are only there to make the protein. It is the proteins that are doing all the chemistry to build batteries, etc. Are you thinking that the extra proteins are becoming part of the virus? Or are the extra proteins floating freely?
WarmWeatherGuy 10 months ago
This talk was like crack to me...
missdexterity 10 months ago
Zombie apocalypse
darkcase123 10 months ago
@darkcase123
I knew Resident Evil wasn't a video game for nothing!
practice for the world's end!
xjustamem0ryx 10 months ago
Can't wait till i can grow a laptop in my backyard.
DocUnsane 10 months ago
This is staggering!
Vortex42 10 months ago 2
Why couldn't I have a prof or teacher like her? Quite inspiring and I love that she hands out small periodic tables that say "Welcome to MIT, now you're in your element." Clever and thoughtful. Great talk.
gsdoores 10 months ago 5
Inspired, vibrant higher education!
ActivismTT 10 months ago
Fascinating. Thanks!
ManitobaEcoNetwork 10 months ago
Now we can build nano-suits than can mimic the environment around it thus making the wearer invisible >:)
nathegera 10 months ago 2
@nathegera
TAG UR IT :)
xjustamem0ryx 10 months ago
OMG!
DavidSabine 10 months ago
Very Interesting
paulinestockhausen 10 months ago
What's the downside. What if the virus gets into a water supply or the ocean? Any safety issues?
utimatevacation 10 months ago
@utimatevacation bacteriophages can only infect bacteria, they are harmless to animals. also, many organisms used in labs are designed so that they can not survive "on their own", outside of the lab (or some other optimal environment).
1Aineko 10 months ago
Somewhere in Alabama, a politician is calling this an abomination against god.
heeh2 10 months ago
OMG talk slower
pwnmonkeyisreal 10 months ago
@pwnmonkeyisreal They have a limited amount of time to talk
reptilezsweden 10 months ago
I came onto this vid to laugh at a woman called A Belcher. I leave enlightened.
SMALLANGRYMAN28 10 months ago 4
very interesting, but I found it hard to listen to her, because she hardly ever pauses. If I was her husband would go mad :-)
yossieven 10 months ago
@yossieven She was nervous..like VERY nervous.
beatboxpeej 10 months ago
@yossieven Her brain works faster than her mouth. It's a very common problem with the highly intelligent.
xxFNORDxx 10 months ago
@xxFNORDxx :-) the brain always works faster than the mouth :-) Hers just process words faster than average and it doesn't necessarily mean intelligence. I know ppl who spoke stupid things very fast ;-)
yossieven 10 months ago
@yossieven I've known people who've written stupid things slowly.
xxFNORDxx 10 months ago
@yossieven It's a 10minute TED talk and she was talking about bioengineering. Are you seriously confused as to why she never paused?
Icemario87 10 months ago
@Icemario87 I think it took 10 minutes because she talked that fast :-)
yossieven 10 months ago
This is how science ought to progress. Using what is abundantly available in nature and producing non toxic waste.
We dig up some of rare elements to build things. Nature takes what is available in huge quantities.
Abhanshu1 10 months ago 35
@Abhanshu1 Problem is we have people who are against science that can threaten big corporations. That must change.
HybridD91 9 months ago 2
wait until they start building highway bridges out of bone tissue. Make is self regenerating.
formula1fan07 10 months ago 2
@formula1fan07
Not just out of bone tissue, from what she's saying, a self assembling bridge made from nanotubes and nano structured materials, including metals... so fraking cool!!!
hutchings000 10 months ago
so basically this lady invented magic
awesome
MsTreasuredChest 10 months ago 2
@MsTreasuredChest No, it's science. But yes, we used to call this "magic" or more specifically, "religion".
Monchanger 10 months ago
@Monchanger religion isn't magic. Religion is a complex set of rituals (including verbal rituals) based upon a belief in magic. The magic could go away tomorrow but the rituals won't. And they think if the magic goes so do they (but they won't... I'm putting money on atheist christians and atheist muslims in 50yrs+).
"No god's not real because god is magic. But you're still going to hell if you don't pray before you eat!"
Icemario87 10 months ago
@Icemario87 Well said. But not exactly my point. Ask any "magician" (e.g. Randi) what magic is and they won't say anything about the supernatural. Rather, they will explain that what they do is simply deception, which is what I was suggesting religious "leaders" practice. As you pointed out, the rituals out may be inspired by alleged supernatural events (or be such events, as claimed in Catholic mass), but they actually serve as a distraction from the questioning of faith.
Monchanger 10 months ago
@Monchanger Got ya, makes sense. It was a bit of a leap for me from "science as magic" to "magic as religion" to "magic (and therefore religion) as deception," given the comments.
And despite the fact that both religion and magicians employ deception, the redeeming quality of the magician is that his(her) audience suspects it. The show itself reminds you that it is just a show.
With religion the deception is lifelong and complete, even encouraging proliferation.
Two kinds of deception, imo.
Icemario87 10 months ago 2
@CoinDl I disagree. But I think she most defininitly deserves the NOBEL price!
roeliox 10 months ago 3
These talks should get translated for educational purposes around the globe.
roeliox 10 months ago 2
Bioengineering viruses? What could possibly go wrong?
christo930 10 months ago
Why was she given so little time to speak? That makes no sense.
Elusefelier 10 months ago 2
@Elusefelier There just isn't enough time sometimes
Kryptsanies 10 months ago
Like this if you want to drive a virus-powered car
Arxces 10 months ago
God would be proud.
cmd2tuts 10 months ago
@cmd2tuts the god who is so omnipotent that he cant do anything about our diminishing planet but he is able to look on while mere humans find ways by themselves to save it.
kiddhitta 10 months ago
Nerds will save the world!
Great talk :)
MisterWeed 10 months ago
WOW! I don't understand a lot of what she said because she was going so fast but her ideas and creations are amazing. @CloudMeetsSky I fully agree! Cut defense and fund more biotechnology.
HBSanta 10 months ago 2
Awesome!
Only criticism: Ms. Belcher should slow down in her speech during the presentation.
markduddridge 10 months ago
Would be interesting to be at her lecture. Turn away for a second and you've already missed couple books of information.
Uribaani 10 months ago
Brilliant, give this Lady a Nobel Prize!
MsJunglebird 10 months ago 11
hope it won't be another "umbrella corp." :/ playing with viruses isn't safe for me. What do you think? :>
Titter85 10 months ago
@Titter85 Yeah, that whole zombie things was too much, hope that doesn't happen again.
willowtreephoto 10 months ago
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@Titter85 Yeah, that whole zombie thing was too much, hope that doesn't happen again.
willowtreephoto 10 months ago
brilliant. but what about Virus rights ? are they getting adequate minimum pay for all they do ?
yourtube20061 10 months ago
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@yourtube20061
"brilliant. but what about Virus rights ? are they getting adequate minimum pay for all they do ?"
The joke response: SHHHHHH! Don't give the oil companies ideas.
The serious response: viruses are not living things and hence have no rights.
KemaTheAtheist 10 months ago
She is an amazing woman who does amazing work..I wish I was friends with her 3:
theNewCodingFrontier 10 months ago 3
could she speak any faster?
dawkzfunk 10 months ago 4
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I wonder if she can get viruses to grow into shampoo so she could wash her hair before her next public apperance?
540merlin 10 months ago
EPIC!
ChowZeb 10 months ago
oh lawwd
weenersNbeans 10 months ago
geek-gasm
TheSurfaceZero 10 months ago
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Great.. now its not just the pharmaceuticals that are creating new viruses & other micro-organisms through trial & error!! Call me a bit paranoid, but if you have loose oil lying around all the time, sooner or later, its catching fire...
.... maybe thats how our race will end.
BestestMoron 10 months ago
@BestestMoron Stop whining
weenersNbeans 10 months ago
@BestestMoron i dont think they're screwing around with viruses that infect human cells just bacteria, so I'm sure you have nothing more to worry about
consummateVssss 10 months ago 2
@consummateVssss
If they were working with silicon based micro organisms, you would have had a case... but a carbon based life is one among us. I fully mentally support her efforts... its just that there are two sides to macro-world coins & since most were drinking the WoW!! kool-aid, I just brought up the flip side.
BestestMoron 10 months ago
this is amazing
theshredator 10 months ago
I love this lady! When I can grow my own living spaceship, I'm naming it after her!
Conversely if a zombie comes to my doorstep to kill me, I'm going to assume its her haha... Please make viruses look good and not worse than they already can be. 8)
maddcatone 10 months ago
I just gained +10 optimism in humanity.
Jotto999 10 months ago 35
Belcher is the best chemist alive today!
MrMichaelEdie 10 months ago
she talks way to fast :/ this is not listening friendly xD
iFarsight 10 months ago
@iFarsight agreed i had to pause it just to comment. lmao
theprofits13 10 months ago
@iFarsight yeh, but what did you think of the content?
morthim 10 months ago
@morthim i really liked the content :) most of the videos on this channel is great and I'm really into science that the average bloke would only think exists in sci-fi movies :P
iFarsight 10 months ago
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dear women:
if you speak in public, dont dress like a man.
thank you, all men with functioning eyes.
other then that, her talk was really amazing!
Buddhabr0t 10 months ago
Great talk - but damn! - take a breath every once in a while!
OneCerebralSamurai 10 months ago 3
The start of our becoming Aliens
Mystery207 10 months ago
I think there has been some genetic engineering of the alkaloid crystalline compound C8H10N4O2 (caffeine) going on at MIT...
TheCaptainD82 10 months ago
Her own work is introduced at 6:24 She is using evolution and selection to engineer microorganisms that solve specific tasks such as bulding small self assembling objects. It sounds like fun.
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Clearly, this women has never heard about evolution not existing, somebody stop her.
NietzscheanMan 10 months ago
I just love to hear people smarter than me, what a great sense of humor.
tedescomarcelo 10 months ago 3
supoib!
P00P0STER0US 10 months ago
BRAVO
35343ful 10 months ago
Apparently, 5 oil company executives have seen this video.
KemaTheAtheist 10 months ago 5
We should be pouring our money into this, not the military.
CloudMeetsSky 10 months ago 148
@CloudMeetsSky neither this nor the military... Scince since it should be free and military because the military is used on bullshit
Terje1337 10 months ago
@Terje1337
A fellow Anarchist?
It was merely a comment. obviously Science research should be done freely, as it will be mans salvation. It will get us off this rock that has so graciously mothered us and back into the stars where we have been beckoned since man could dream.
CloudMeetsSky 10 months ago 2
@CloudMeetsSky pretty close to an anarchist, but I believe a really tiny government, police and courts would be in our favour.
but I wont argue with you as we both fight the same fight
Terje1337 10 months ago
@CloudMeetsSky Funny thing is that if we poured all our money into this and it was a smashing sucsess, it would go straight to the military for their benifit, not ours.
Spencerianism 10 months ago
@Spencerianism
I whole heartily agree. Obviously we would have to change the minds of the majority in order for this to work properly.
CloudMeetsSky 10 months ago
@CloudMeetsSky I hear you loud and clear on that one, but unfortunatly, in that case, we're screwed. The majority is...insane.
Spencerianism 10 months ago
@CloudMeetsSky actually, the military has been supporting the battery research...
Schwertsan 10 months ago 2
@CloudMeetsSky You did not know the Military is a big cash cow, war is a big business, selling arms it generates a lot of profit
cristoretornebiblia 10 months ago
@cristoretornebiblia The thing is, it doesn't really generate profit, it simply transfers wealth from the taxpayer to a corporation. A true profit is when you give the people something they want for a lower cost than they are willing to pay.
christo930 10 months ago
@CloudMeetsSky this comment should be on most TEDtalks
lukostello 10 months ago
@CloudMeetsSky why is this commentary not shown in the top commentaries? it has 147 thumbs up.
mahatmaBit 9 months ago
My god man. you could make a self replenishing, photocatalytic hydrogen powered car battery. all you gotta do is add water and SUNLIGHT ?!?!
WHY THE HELL ARENT WE THROWING MONEY AT THIS!?!?
JustinHFX 10 months ago 21
@JustinHFX because oil. :/
emikochan13 10 months ago
@JustinHFX
Because of politicians who are in the oil companies' pocket.
KemaTheAtheist 10 months ago
@JustinHFX
"we" aren't throwing money at it because it would go against planned obsolescence and consumption.
xjustamem0ryx 10 months ago 2
@JustinHFX you wont need the alternator no more at least a gain of 10HP in power... that means 10HP less to be consumed nice
edgarinv 10 months ago
MIT? I thought she was from Caltech. Decide!
DrQuijano 10 months ago
@DrQuijano She's an MIT professor lecturing at Caltech. Happens all the time.
DeceptiveSoul 10 months ago
''But evolution isn't real!!'':D :D :D
TimmacTR 10 months ago
I wonder if I could get one of them microbe shell making organisms to make me some houses or something.
DrQuijano 10 months ago
first i was like "meh"
but then my head asploded O.O
wardzer 10 months ago
i was very very disapointed in teh first few minutes , was begining to ownder if this speaker would tell us what we already knw and offer no solutions , and then when she showed the solutions i was awestruck by 2 things. 1 how simple and effective they were, 2 how she reguards them as simple and effective instead of mindboggling successes O.o
slysci5 10 months ago
so if we start growing batteries and solar cells, could we use natural selection to evolve them to be more efficient?
AHughman08 10 months ago
@AHughman08 Yes, that's the point :)
emikochan13 10 months ago
This is our future if mind dead tea party cretins don't kill government research on everything. Brilliant.
emaildoctor 10 months ago 3
At first she said "what if" a lot and I thought it'd just be sci-fi speculation. Then she showed that she's done it already and my head exploded.
sckchui 10 months ago 97
wooow that was amazing bio tech is incredible!!!
alonee810 10 months ago
this is so amazing
knocknak 10 months ago
We survived gun powder, dynamite, Yperite and fission. This will do us all in...
Blackthorn2323 10 months ago
@Blackthorn2323
And how in the world would it do that?
sdrawkcabgnipytmi 10 months ago
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi
What genetic engineering?
So i don't get why it's certain that those viruses and bacteria will not suffer mutations that would make them get away from the applications they were designed for...
If they do, and breed like camels in Australia, that might be a problem.
But more importantly, the technology will become, like computers, much more accessible. So even private terrorists(as in other then the US government ) will be able to work in the field.
Blackthorn2323 10 months ago
@Blackthorn2323 do you wish computers didn't exist - coz terrorists can use them?
roidroid 10 months ago
@Blackthorn2323
There are billions of viruses in each drop of sea water. Are you terrified of the ocean? You have more bacteria living in your body than you have cells. Why are you not terrified that these will mutate into pathogens? Why do you think that engineered viruses and bacteria are so much more dangerous than the ones I mentioned?
On the other hand, the fact that it's becoming increasingly easy to engineer these things does make bioterrorism easier to commit. I can't argue with that.
sdrawkcabgnipytmi 10 months ago
bitch grow me a battery!
rroge5 10 months ago